In 2012, Norman Conquest kicked off the Absurdist Texts and Documents series at Black Scat Books with his illustrated adaptation of Alphonse Allais’s story Un drame bien parisien. The original limited edition is now out of print. He has just republished a new expanded edition, with an introduction and notes by Doug Skinner. You can […]

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My translation of Alphonse Allais’s book The Squadron’s Umbrella is available from Black Scat Books.

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Merde à la Belle Époque is now available from Black Scat Books! Doug Skinner has chosen, translated, and annotated a choice selection of scatological texts from Paris’s Bohemian heyday. The texts range from 1883 to 1902, and include poems, stories, a play, a rebus and a letter. You will find Alphonse Allais, George Auriol, Georges […]

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“Molecular Breakfast” was a 1978 collaboration with dancer and choreographer Helen Dannenberg.  Its ingredients included music, dance, pedestrian movement, sign language, speech, and found material.  Here’s the first page of our notes (including a demonstration of the difference between a Brooklyn and mid-western accent), and a review.  My, it seems long ago.

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A brief round, featuring a martyr.

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If you draw a picture of yourself in the sand, it probably won’t last.

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He’s very mischievous!

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In 1996, listener-sponsored radio station WFMU issued a set of playing cards as a premium for subscribers.  The theme was “Missing Persons,” and each card illustrated someone who had disappeared.  I was assigned the clubs, and drew each from the viewpoint of the person who vanished.  The ace and face cards were drawn by other […]

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A round on a quatrain by Léon-Paul Fargue, in my translation.

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Here I am performing my illustrated story, “Bimbo and Bombo,” at “The Moon Show” (Williamsburg, 11/5/12).

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