What else can I buy from Lulu?
There are a lot of interesting things happening on Lulu.com. If you want to buy the post-podcast FlameWar but are interested in averaging out the shipping over more than one book, I can strongly recommend some of them.
If you’re into William S. Burroughs or Grant Morrison, check out Steve Aylett’s “reprint” of the September 1975 issue of The Caterer•. I don’t know if they made the whole thing up or just the dialogue, but this is an amazing piece of work.
Faculty office. How may I help you?
I need a coffee pot in the shape of my own severred head. The coffee should come out the nose. Or out a gill-like frown on the forehead. Pick me up by my ears. Do it. Pick me up by my ears. And all these glories must be delivered in five of your earth minutes. Yeah—
This is the school faculty office, sir.
The art is in a late sixties, early seventies style, with some great seventies-style advertisements thrown in for good measure.
The Caterer is a companion piece to Steve Aylett’s “biography” of the author, Lint•, which I have not yet read.
If you’re a fan of illustrator David Hartman (Bubba Ho-Tep) you might find Sideshow Monkey interesting.
If you enjoy games, you might look at Donjon or The Shadow of Yesterday from Clinton R. Nixon, or my own Gods & Monsters.
In response to Now podcasting FlameWar!: FlameWar: The Passion of the Electric Messiah is my latest novel. I’ll be podcasting the latest draft one episode a week.
- Lulu.com
- Self-publishing services with no upfront fee. I’ve had good experiences with them on Gods & Monsters and as a sort of “private printer”.
- The Caterer•
- “The strangest ever 1970s action comic. Steve Aylett presents Jeff Lint’s THE CATERER, in which the smirking Jack Marsden enrages all with his lateral diatribes and smug attitude.”
- Lint• (comic book)
- “Aylett’s multidimensional account of Lint’s livelihood includes snapshots of the book covers of such titles as I Blame Ferns and Doomed but Confident, an exhaustive bibliography, and an addendum of choice Lint quotations; for instance, ‘When the abyss gazes into you, bill it.’ Readers with the taste for offbeat humor of the Douglas Adams, genre-spoofing variety should savor Aylett’s latest.”
- Sideshow Monkey
- “Freaks! Monsters! and Girls! A full color, 96 page art book filled with ghouls, monsters and girls of the macabre.”
- The Biblyon Broadsheet
- Like adventurers of old you will delve into forgotten tombs where creatures of myth stalk the darkness. You will search uncharted wilderness for lost knowledge and hidden treasure. Where the hand-scrawled sign warns “beyond here lie dragons,” your stories begin.