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FAMOUS CORPSES - a celebrity epitaph roast
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Which celebrities and famous world personalities recently passed away? Well, through the savvy critic storytelling of Danielle Griffith and the distorted and extreme portraiture of the accomplished caricaturist Jan Op De Beeck , we can now enjoy a true ROAST of these celebrated personalities that were once (and still will be) household names.
Did you know that Anna Nicole Smith worked at Wal-Mart , or that Tammy Fay Messner thought of herself as a mother to Vanilla Ice ? Do you like Coretta Scott King and Red Buttons ? We do too, but that doesn't exempt them from a good ribbing from these edgy authors, and topping it all off is a great bit of satire through the cartoons and illustrations of Japanese artist Emi Sato .
This book is hilarious, edgy, taboo and visually stunning. With respect to the dead, we left as much color in this book as lies in their current complexion *cough*!
Which celebrities and famous world personalities recently passed away? Well, through the savvy critic storytelling of Danielle Griffith and the distorted and extreme portraiture of the accomplished caricaturist Jan Op De Beeck , we can now enjoy a true ROAST of these celebrated personalities that were once (and still will be) household names.
Did you know that Anna Nicole Smith worked at Wal-Mart , or that Tammy Fay Messner thought of herself as a mother to Vanilla Ice ? Do you like Coretta Scott King and Red Buttons ? We do too, but that doesn't exempt them from a good ribbing from these edgy authors, and topping it all off is a great bit of satire through the cartoons and illustrations of Japanese artist Emi Sato .
This book is hilarious, edgy, taboo and visually stunning. With respect to the dead, we left as much color in this book as lies in their current complexion *cough*!
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112 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2008
4 people want to read
About the author
Danielle Griffith
1 book17 followersWandering about in New York City by way of Mississippi.
She is at turns a cartoonist, an author, possibly bored, fidgety, and a wiz at retail.
Famous Corpses was published in 2008 by small press phenomArt Squared Publishing.
She is at turns a cartoonist, an author, possibly bored, fidgety, and a wiz at retail.
Famous Corpses was published in 2008 by small press phenomArt Squared Publishing.
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November 21, 2008
5 stars! I love a good art book when I come upon one and this was something I was certainly looking forward to after first seeing it mentioned on illustrator Jan Op De Beeck's blog. He is a masterful caricaturist and illustrator and his terrifically rendered exaggerations adorn the pages of this book and you can't help but just flip back and forth staring at them. Then halfway through after you've looked at all the awesome drawings, you start reading it and find out that the book is damn funny as well. Griffith delivers a nice punchy snark in these pages. It's a limited run book apparently, so I'm glad to have grabbed one up at an art con.
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