Richard Brautigan Special
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novel 'The Abortion: A Historical Romance 1966', the narrator is the sole employee of a library that collects unpublished and unpublishable books*.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
- http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/09/25/libr.php)
It's a real privilege to be included in this special.
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novel 'The Abortion: A Historical Romance 1966', the narrator is the sole employee of a library that collects unpublished and unpublishable books*.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
- http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/09/25/libr.php)
It's a real privilege to be included in this special.
