The 22nd issue of Black Scat Review is now available! This is the “Errata” issue, and contains my contributions “Shakespeare Misspelled” and “Typos on Title Pages.” It also features texts, comics, collages, and drawings by my lively colleagues Terri Carrion, Norman Conquest, Caroline Crépiat, Farewell Debut, S. C. Delaney, Jean-Pierre Duffour, Errorbiblioteca, Paul Forristal, Ryan […]
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Black Scat Review 22
July 19th, 2021 · 1 Comment
Black Scat Review 21
February 1st, 2021 · Comments Off on Black Scat Review 21
The 21st issue of Black Scat Review is now available from Amazon! My contributions to this special travel issue are a short story, “The Morning Walk,” and translations of two stories by Alphonse Allais, from my upcoming translation of his collection 2 + 2 = 5. I am, mind you, one of many contributors. My […]
Black Scat Review 20
August 9th, 2020 · 4 Comments
The 2oth issue of “Black Scat Review” is now available from Black Scat Books! This one is devoted to black humor, 106 pages of it. I contributed a squalid fairy tale, “The Fisherman’s Wish,” a misanthropic song, “We Are Not a Pretty People,” and a translation of Alphonse Allais’s classically tasteless story “The Rajah Is […]
Bedside Nonsense
June 8th, 2020 · Comments Off on Bedside Nonsense
Bedside Nonsense is now available from Black Scat Books! This anthology, edited by Norman Conquest, offers a dizzying array of approaches to the nonsensical, by a lively group of writers and artists. I contributed “Amerigo and Isabella” (verses about the misadventures of Amerigo Vespucci and Queen Isabella) and “Deucalion’s Ark” (a story about the Greek […]
Black Scat Review 19
April 5th, 2020 · 2 Comments
The 19th issue of Black Scat Review is now available! This issue’s theme is “ecstasy.” I contributed “Two and One” (a story about a love triangle, told entirely in three-letter words), “Up to the Summit” (in which Owen’s daily mountain climbing is interrupted by his mother’s sudden wedding), and “C11H13NO2” (an alliterative consideration of a […]
Black Scat Review 18
November 17th, 2019 · Comments Off on Black Scat Review 18
Black Scat Review #18 is now available! This jam-packed issue contains four pages of my comic strip “Shorten the Classics,” an excerpt from my translation of Alfred Jarry’s play The Pope’s Mustard-Maker, and my translations of poems by Charles Cros, Jules Jouy, and Laurent Tailhade. You will also find contributions by Mark Axelrod, Angela Buck, […]
Baron Aaron
August 19th, 2019 · 2 Comments
A rollicking fairy tale told with stringent poetic constraints! Here are the first six stanzas of thirty-three. BARON AARON The Baron Aaron, though of great nobility, Did not appear particularly noble. His face was red and round, his features mobile, His body squat and scot-free of agility. His intellect was frivolous and trivial; He wasn’t […]
The Book of Weirdo
May 1st, 2019 · 2 Comments
Jon B. Cooke’s Book of Weirdo, an encyclopedic history of R. Crumb’s sorely-missed humor magazine, is now out from Last Gasp. It includes reminiscences from most of the artists, as well as photos from the time they contributed. A cartoon of mine was published in the 13th issue, so I’m in there with everyone else. […]
The Best of Le Scat Noir
February 10th, 2019 · Comments Off on The Best of Le Scat Noir
The Best of Le Scat Noir is now available! It collects memorable gems from the online journal edited by the ebullient Norman Conquest, in a large, full-color trade paperback. I have a number of pieces in it, as do many others, to wit: Paulo Brito, Paul Kavanagh, Erik Satie, Samuele Bastianello, Alice Pulaski, Pink Buddha, Yuriy […]
Babbo Natale
December 9th, 2018 · 2 Comments
Here, for the holidays, is a song about the many sterling qualities of Santa Claus. It’s also the only song I’ve written in Italian. It begins: Babbo Natale pranza in letto. Babbo Natale balla sul tetto. Babbo Natale evita le frotte. Babbo Natale viaggia di notte. Santa Claus eats in bed. Santa Claus dances on […]