From Paul O'Connell :
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of
Richard Brautigan, one of my favourite writers. To mark the occasion
Torpedo fiction quarterly's latest offering is a special Brautigan themed issue.
Co-edited, and with a foreword by Brautigan's daughter, Ianthe Brautigan, the special issue features Brautigan inspired fiction from 30 writers, a section of Richard Brautigan's own writing in the middle plus a specially designed envelope containing 8 full colour A5 double-sided prints featuring artwork based on his stories. One of which is a comic strip by myself, using Richard Brautigan's text, called 'The Library'.
In Brautigan's novel 'The Abortion: A Historical Romance 1966', the narrator is the sole employee of a library that collects unpublished and unpublishable books*. It's sole criteria is that books must be delivered in person. A chapter in the novel which I adapted into comic strip form describes a typical day in the life of the library and the many kinds of characters who stop by to leave their charming, idiosyncratic and bizarre manuscripts and books.
*The idea for such a library proved so popular that it inspired more than a couple of actual real life libraries based upon the same principle
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http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/09/25/libr.php)
It's a real privilege to be included in this special.