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Bizarrism Vol. 1

The revised and expanded edition

A unique insight into some of the strangest stories this world has to offer.

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Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including:

  • William Chidley, who believed that, when it comes to sex, we’ve all been making a terrible mistake;
  • Arthur Cravan, who combined poetry with boxing;
  • Slim Gaillard, jazz singer and dispenser of ‘vout’;
  • William Lindsay Gresham, author of the classic noir novel Nightmare Alley;
  • Rosaleen Norton, Australia’s most notorious witch;
  • Harry Crosby, poet, sun worshipper and the best looking corpse of 1929;
  • Reginal Levgiac, author of the mysterious pamphlet Drugs Virus Germs.

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In writing their stories, Mikul does not judge, but instead celebrates these characters for their fabulous weirdness. For him, they are the “beacons of shining if erratic brilliance in a world of sensible conformity”. The world would be a poorer place without them.

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Chris Mikul

CHRIS MIKUL is a Sydney-based writer and publisher of the long-running zine Bizarrism, which is devoted to all manner of real-life strangeness.

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GLENN “GLENNO” SMITH is an art mercenary, paying the rent in Sydney with his wonderful wife Gina and the beginnings of an army of vengeful cats. He spends most of his time drawing wizards for doom bands and spikey lettering for bands that don’t care if the text is legible or not. He teaches illustration, plays in a band called Chinese Burns Unit and can be found in a sitting position at his desk most hours of the day. Glenno is also making inroads into the dysfunctional world of fine art, curating and exhibiting in a vain hope to seem legit and adult… not to mention gathering cult-sized numbers of followers via Instagram. Consider his refreshing Kool-Aid at #glennoart.

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