"Witty and ingenious comics from the exceptionally-talented writer, musician, performer, ventriloquist, and cartoonist Doug Skinner. It's exciting to finally have these little-seen strips available in one beautiful book. You may be reminded of Voltaire or Ernie Bushmiller while reading these meticulously drawn stories featuring utterly hapless characters, but Mr. Skinner has a style all his own." -R. Sikoryak "Mr. Skinner knows many terrible, terrible secrets about us. We are once again fortunate that he chooses to share them so deftly and so altruistically."-Mark Newgarden What is the truth behind the "Unknown Adjective"? Will Walter and Benny find the elusive batworm? What really goes on out in "Cowboy Country"? And can Dr. Docket find a cure for all that ails Mr. Pert? You'll discover the answers to these and other burning questions in this profusely illustrated collection of comics and picture stories from the brilliant (albeit peculiar) mind of Doug Skinner. Take a look inside and see for yourself. Your daily dilemmas will soon seem inconsequential, and the laughter you hear may turn out to be your own.

The Unknown Adjective and Other Stories

Comics & Graphic Novels

Skinner, Doug

Graphic Novels

BLACK SCAT BOOKS

In this new collection of short stories by the author of THE DOUG SKINNER DOSSIER, you'll discover a world of ostensibly human specimens behaving in peculiar and unpredictable ways. However, they are often recognizable in a manner we dare not admit. Skinner's dark humor is deceptively playful and childlike, and that makes our bursts of laughter all the more disturbing. These "funny" tales are guaranteed to disconcert and astonish. SLEEPYTIME CEMETERY is a nice place to visit, but...

Sleepytime Cemetery: 40 Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

THE SNOWMAN THREE DOORS DOWN contains 24 tales of twisted wit, black humor, and tangled plots by the author of SLEEPYTIME CEMETERY. Skinner's fiction constitutes a curious genre all its own. In this collection you'll discover a vision that may startle and confound, but one guaranteed to entertain.

The Snowman Three Doors Down

Doug Skinner’s hilarious new collection of drawings features 180 curious musical instruments—a gauntlet hurled defiantly into the face of homogeneity. You may have to hide this work from the authorities, but in the celestial concert that follows you can savor the forbidden, almost forgotten, pleasures of musical diversity— if only in your imagination, where surveillance capitalism cannot yet reach you. Don’t forget to turn off your phone.

Instrumentarium: A Book of Curious Musical Instruments

A compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges. This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces, music from other worlds. Here you'll find tunes hummed, strummed, and sung by spirits, sprites, and fairies, extraterrestrial elevator music, dreamed ditties, marches for occult ceremonies, secret musical codes and languages, music made by animals, and more. Each entry contains an explanatory text on its origins and purpose, and also reproduces the musical notation, in facsimile where possible, so that you can play along at home. An in-depth introductory essay by musician, historian and collector Doug Skinner rounds out this wondrous musical cabinet of curiosities.

Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms

Arts & Photography

Music

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