Competition
Gremlin Lore
Gremblings: Part 1
The Complete Quest for Gremlins
More Comicular Art by L R Nold
When I began working on Dr Gumbo’s One True Jazz Comic (which appears in my second book, Empanelled — Frivolous Fables) in late 1966 in a futile attempt to maintain sanity while residing at Rosebank in New South Wales, I decide at page 2 that I’d begin a ‘side piece’ as a distraction from the horrid little jazz obsessionist’s seamy existence in Sydney.
This is it. I had intended to intersperse the Quest with earlier stories but, sad to relate, these intended stories have been perversely excised and supplanted with spurious material by malevolent ‘Printer’s Devil’ Gremlins speciously posing as the cartoonist Nold, in an apparent attempt to deride the sacred Quest.
Nold wishes to stress that this is NOT intended as yet another appalling adult colouring book, even though its 120 large pages are printed on paper ideal for such an inane pursuit.
Empanelled Book One: Loose Life Stories
“Altogether this is a monumental work”
— Robert Crumb
The first of two large-format glossy 288-page, limp covered Art books, Empanelled Book 1 collects Linzee’s semi-autobiographical stories from his experiences as a schoolboy, schoolteacher, itinerant drummer, actor and ‘multi-disciplinary’ artist at large, ranging from 1940s wartime Hobart, through the repressive 50s and revolutionary 60s into the 80s and 90s of the 20th century.
“Loose Life Stories” contains a total of 34 complete B&W stories from the author’s life, with chronological colour coding for easy reference, as if you care about such things.
Extras include ‘Flash Frames’ (true and imaginary encounters with Celebrities: literary, artistic, theatrical and beyond), photographs, paintings on canvas and rocks, gags, and important recondite divulgences from the SubGenius Church, all enfolded within an exquisite rainbow-edged handsome tome.
Limited edition hardback slipcased sets are available on request.
Clown Car
One of a set of 10, originally produced as a series of gift cards, telling the tragic story of a working clown’s professional and private life
Wally
Many odd characters appear in “Frivolous Fables“.
Wally is only one of them. You do believe me, don’t you?
One Day mit der Furore
Adolf Hitler knitting at the Twilight Home for Weary Dictators (late 70s).
It seems unfair that “Der Dickpotato” should have avoided the often grim old age and deterioration that awaits the elderly. An imaginary rectification of history.
Flash Frames: Irish Jokes
There are a couple of dozen of these pithy, meaningful captured moments scattered throughout both Empanelled books.
High Spiritual Paranoia
A seminal, highly serious work in which the Captain reveals how he discovered the cure for this insidious affliction, which subsequently led to his involvement with the Church of SubGenius.
The Rest, as we now know, is still to come — he has since been a perpetually busy Adherent of and Advisor to the High Epopt, J. R. “Bob” Dobbs. [AAHE Gr3]