Author results: Gabriel Clark
When You Are Engulfed In Flames, David Sedaris
Reading David Sedaris is like sharing those rare moments with friends; when you laugh so hard at someone's self-deprecating recollection of their misfortune that your eyes bleed. It's also like you've been reborn in a world where you're wearing an external catheter designed for sports fans because you like to accessorise.
Tales From Outer Suburbia
If the word 'awesomest' was an illustration (or even a word) then it would be illustrated by Shaun Tan. Tan is the king of Australian book illustration and creator of last years award winning comic book THE ARRIVAL.
Typically Tan's stories are allegories about the human condition, his skill as an artist and writer is to take everyday themes and create an extraordinary and hallucinatory experience.
Tekkonkinkreet
TEKKONKINKREET follows Black and White, two street orphans who love their city and are fighting to keep the Yakuza, theme park developers and aliens away from what is rightfully theirs: Treasure Town.
Opposites in world views, actions and names, Black and White look after each other and keep each other in check.
ACME Novelty Library #18
A one-legged woman lies in bed, kept awake by anxious visions of lost opportunites and failed attempts at gaining happiness. Sounds like fun huh? Even if it doesn't, that don't matter because Chris Ware is the most important comic artist in the world. He constantly produces jaw droppingly good publications.
Black Watch
Any play which opens a national parliament must be worth its weight in reputation, and that is what BLACK WATCH did recently when it was chosen to open Scottish parliament. It's hard to imagine a play kicking off Canberra, but the fierce nationalist pride that the newly formed National Theatre of Scotland seems to be reflected in this its most successful touring theatre piece.
30 Days of Night
30 DAYS OF NIGHT is a vampire lore twisting suspense gorefest, set in the Arctic Circle in the town of Borrow during a month of darkness - with a bunch of anonymous and very hungry blood suckers.
Directed by HARD CANDY'S David Slade uses editing and teasing tight shots to create a genuinely suspenseful film.
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