Do you find it irresistible to purchase a well-priced baby if the seller guarantees a live delivery? Is the idea of blood-soaked, bikini-clad vixens enticing to you? Do you believe that inhabitants of other planets and dimensions enjoy booze as much as humans? Do you like sexy zombies in lingerie? How about intergalactic centerfolds with guns? If you answered yes to one, or all, of the above questions, you need to check out “Bizarro Au Go-Go.”
“Bizarro AU Go-Go” is a true postmodern collage that’s part book, part comic, part magazine, part photography volume, part encyclopedia and all fun. Put together by Cig Neutron and photographer Rannie Rodil, the book brings together humor, sex and gore in what can only be described as a smorgasbord of weirdness. Yes, the book is a tad sexist, a little gory, incongruous and might not be coffee table material for those that enjoy tasteful cookbooks, but if you’re here because the cover or the name piqued your curiosity, then you’re probably a member of the kind of crowd that would enjoy a heavily tattooed pinup model on all fours vomiting on top of a drunken, topless she-clown with a fake beard. It is truly a thing of beauty.
While the photos are great and the comic portions of the book are a bizarre, sexy treat, the stories/descriptions that make up a series of entries titled Encyclosleazia Shittanica are what truly takes the book into new and interesting territory. These entries, similar to encyclopedic entries, just as the name implies, depict and explain a number of strange creatures that range from buttgrubs, pesky little critters that have a compulsion to touch the rear end of everything in the universe, to titchins, females aliens from planet Ygro that produce a milky substance that’s has the same effects as amphetamines on the human brain. While these entries are all in caps, which some readers say they find annoying, and have a few misplaced commas, they’re still worth a read just for the wild imagination behind them.
Ads for crazy products, posters for upcoming movies and even a small girl feasting on the entrails of a monster are some of the other tasty morsels that you’ll find inside the pages of “Bizarro Au Go-Go.” Sadly, the book is pretty short and you’ll probably read it in less than an hour, but you will surely come back to it a few times to share one its unique images with someone. If instead of frowning at the things described above you found yourself intrigued, picked up a copy of “Bizarro Au Go-Go” today.
– Gabino Iglesias
- Interview with J.R. Bookwalter - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Andrew J. Rausch - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Rick Popko and Dan West - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Director Stevan Mena (Malevolence) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Screenwriter Jeffery Reddick (Day of the Dead 2007) - January 22, 2015
- Teleconference interview with Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) - January 22, 2015
- A Day at the Morgue with Corri English (Unrest) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Writer/Director Nacho Cerda (The Abandoned, Aftermath) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actress Thora Birch (Dark Corners, The Hole, American Beauty) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actor Jason Behr, Plus Skinwalkers Press Coverage - January 22, 2015
