AWFUL/RESILIENT:
THE ART OF ALEX PARDEE Alex Pardee Ginko Press Watch hours of Saturday morning cartoons while eating Count Choc- ula laced with brown acid, and your world might become an Alex Pardee illustration. From a Steve Urkel demon to the Brundlefly high-fiving the original Fly, Awful/Resilient is a sick buffet of Day- Glo, pop-culture creatures that melt and morph like The Thing caught in a Crayola factory fire. Hideous and awesome.
DAVE ALEXANDER
ATTACK OF THE VAMPIRE WEENIES David Lubar
Starscape Ravenous bookworms and creepy critters alike will plough right through David Lubar’s latest collec- tion of short stories. With over 30 original tales of ghosts, vampires, terrifying teachers and even dangerous mimes, this popcorn book delivers an entertaining read for kids aged seven to nine, without ever being overly frighten- ing or verbose. If your young reader is looking for a challenge, however, look elsewhere.
JESSA SOBCZUK
FAIRY TALE Bob McLain Pulp Hero Press Snow White’s kingdom has been overrun with insatiable flesh-eaters in this eBook-only novella. Are the dwarves up to the challenge of saving the land? Bob McLain provides the answer with this very bloody, fast-paced zombie/Dis- ney mash-up that might not have any deep character- ization, but will satisfy even the most demanding zombie fan. The Evil Queen is the least of Snow White’s worries here!
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DEAD DWARVES: A ZOMBIE
SCOTT SHOYER
Sell Your Own Damn Movie!: Lloyd Kaufman pens another book of movie biz wisdom.
Avenger has the lowest signal-to-bullshit ratio of any “So You Wanna Make A Movie” tome ever written, a fact borne out by the subsequent success of its co-author, Slither and Super director James Gunn. Kaufman’s follow-up books – Make Your Own Damn Movie!, Direct Your Own Damn Movie! and Produce Your Own Damn Movie! – were similarly successful, and are probably the only series I would actively recommend to any fledgling filmmaker. Having finally exhausted his knowledge of the nuts and bolts (and blood and guts) of making
movies, he’s now turned, quite logically, to the even more insane business of marketing them to the world. He opens by informing us that Troma hasn’t made any money since 2003 and that his newest film, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, remains – despite his best ef- forts and decades of experience – unsold. It certainly takes some balls to reveal this, consid- ering it may well decimate whatever confidence you might have had in him. So, if we live in an era when even Lloyd Fucking Kaufman can’t make any money at this,
why should you read his book? Because beneath Kaufman’s P.T. Barnum hucksterism lurks some David O. Selznick savvy. In addition to Kaufman’s own traumatic Troma war stories, the book features guest segments written by indie filmmakers (from director/writer/animator Bill Plympton to Paranormal Activity producer Oren Peli) discussing their own successes and failures. Despite his doomsaying, Kaufman remains a proponent of passionate personal film- making (even though his brand involves more fecal matter than most others); to him, even giving your movie away for free is better than having no one see it at all. Sell Your Own Damn Movie! is a road map and a battle plan for aspiring auteurs seeking
to navigate the slime-ridden labyrinth of film markets, festivals and international sales agents. Along the way, Kaufman takes his usual potshots at big corporate interests and makes a sur- prisingly compelling case for internet piracy in an age when selling bootleg DVDs can land you more jail time than Phil Spector got for blowing Lana Clarkson away. Whether you use this knowledge for good or evil is up to you.
JOSEPH O’BRIEN
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