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03-03-2002, 12:34 PM
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| Only a strange mind would write and illustrate a nightmarish poem about a marooned group of friends being eaten one after another by fantastic beats and then think "This would be a great book for the Christmas market." But that's is pretty much the way Paul McDermott nutted things out. [i:post_uid0]The Scree, [/i:post_uid0]the first publication by his own company, [i:post_uid0]Cannibal Books[/i:post_uid0], crept onto the shelves in the middle of the festive season and is, perhaps unsurprisingly, only now starting to find notice. A slim, elegant, clothbound hardcover, [i:post_uid0]The Scree[/i:post_uid0] another entrant into the rapidly growing market of Books For People Who Love Books: a carefully made artefact, enjoyable for its tactility as well as it's content. The poem inside the covers owes a little to Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Lear, Tim Burton and the Lewis Carroll of [i:post_uid0]Jabberwocky,[/i:post_uid0] being a grim and grotesque tale of a bad of travellers dismembered by increasingly hideous creatures, all mere insects compared to the big-daddy frightmaker, [i:post_uid0]The Scree.[/i:post_uid0] McDermott's gothicomic pen-and-ink illustrations accompanying the verses are scratchy, sometimes disturbing drawings, which show a preoccupation with the shapes of bones and viscera. McDermott, best known as the former host of[i:post_uid0] Good News Week [/i:post_uid0]and Doug Anthony Allstar, has been making illustrated books for friends since his days at the Canberra School of Art in the early 1980s. He envisages a series of releases and has just finished the next, [i:post_uid0]The Girl Who Swallowed Bees, [/i:post_uid0]which he expects to publish in April. Two others, [i:post_uid0]The Skeleton Dreams[/i:post_uid0] and [i:post_uid0]The First Journey of The "Merry Depressed"[/i:post_uid0] are slated to follow at six-monthly intervals. [i:post_uid0] Reviewed by Jon Casimir Sydney Morning Herald March 2-3 2002[/i:post_uid0] | ||
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03-03-2002, 07:42 PM
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coool, April is around my birthday will make a fantastic birthday presant!!! woo hoooo  | ||
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~up with this i will not put~ Bernard Black. ~you, keep an eye on her, and you, keep an eye on him i have a universe to master~ Bernard Black. ~i think you should wash your beard, then shave it off, then nail it to a frizbee and then sling it over a rainbow. Bernard to Manny. | |||
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03-03-2002, 07:59 PM
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|  did it have a picture with it??
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~up with this i will not put~ Bernard Black. ~you, keep an eye on her, and you, keep an eye on him i have a universe to master~ Bernard Black. ~i think you should wash your beard, then shave it off, then nail it to a frizbee and then sling it over a rainbow. Bernard to Manny. | |||
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03-03-2002, 08:19 PM
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simple... because they dont' know any better do they! hurry up april!!! yay
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~up with this i will not put~ Bernard Black. ~you, keep an eye on her, and you, keep an eye on him i have a universe to master~ Bernard Black. ~i think you should wash your beard, then shave it off, then nail it to a frizbee and then sling it over a rainbow. Bernard to Manny. | |||
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03-03-2002, 09:19 PM
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kewlness... cant eait now... have 2 dsave more money... *sobs* im always outta money now! syupid little brother... luv Suhj :rock-ban: | ||
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04-03-2002, 09:22 AM
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[quote:post_uid8="Nick on Mar. 03 2002 at 22:15"]6 month intervals.. dear god.. he thinks that e are that slow of readers!![/quote:post_uid8] I don't know about your reading, but if your writing is anything to go by... Sorry Nic, i'll be good :dancingm: | ||
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04-03-2002, 09:30 AM
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April! Tharr's comfest time! How am I supposed to afford it then?? *hopes it'll come out late*
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04-03-2002, 11:33 AM
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ok I keep hearing al these weird rumours that he has already released a book after the scree..this isn't true is it...well I'm pretty sure it isn't but yay! and that Tim Burton comparison...that's EXACTELY what i thought...the books are even bound the same way.. if you enjoyed the scree I urge you to read "The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy" it's really very very good...and you'll understand exactely why the comparison was made! anyway.. yays | ||
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04-03-2002, 12:03 PM
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OHHHH I cant wait for the rest of em to come out, I liked the scree it was cool, and so were the pictures. Has anyone seen the short film of the scree, if so was it good??????? Luv Claire | ||
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04-03-2002, 07:26 PM
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is it out as yet?????? and if so why havent ' i heard ??  | ||
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~up with this i will not put~ Bernard Black. ~you, keep an eye on her, and you, keep an eye on him i have a universe to master~ Bernard Black. ~i think you should wash your beard, then shave it off, then nail it to a frizbee and then sling it over a rainbow. Bernard to Manny. | |||
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04-03-2002, 07:52 PM
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[quote:post_uid0="Fiona Rohana on Mar. 04 2002 at 19:28"]its amazing how many things we find out about before they happen/are announced etc etc[/quote:post_uid0] Isn't it just? I don't know what I'd do without MOSH sometimes!! Cherryish  | ||
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