We gave a performance at the Toronto Comics Art Festival this past weekend. We loved doing TCAF and hope to have the chance to perform there again. Here’s a photo from the gig, taken by Christos Tsirbas, during “Ultzmölnir, Last Warrior of Baddengaard”.
A great big thank-you to “teen wonders” The Astro-Nutts, who composed, performed and recorded the far-out “Astromutt Theme” for Lost Myths! The Astro-Nutts are guitarist Bobby Beaton and bassist John Davis, keyboardist Fred Sarli and drummer Zen Nakamura. The track was mixed by Paul Scriver — thanks, Paul!
Beaton and Davis are founding members of second-wave garage-rock legends The Gruesomes, dishing out the fuzz since 1985. Sarli and Scriver are both alumni of Gruesomes recording sessions. It’s a great honour to have these snazzy talents and dear friends contribute to Lost Myths.
These days, Beaton, Davis and Nakamura are three-fifths of frat-rock revivalists Fuad & the Fez-Tones. Dig their gritty, greasy, culturally insensitive garage R&B on their album Beeramid, or live at a frat-house toga party near you!
ontestants were asked for imaginary books that might be found at Lost Pages, the mysterious bookshop of Claude Lalumière’s The Door to Lost Pages
Author’s Choice Prizewinner: Robert Swan
by Dr. V. Gartenzwerg
(Secret Society Press, 2010)
Can a social system founded on an individual’s status as “property” endure? According to sociologist Dr. V. Gartenzwerg, such a society can endure, and thrive! “In Southern Garden Gnome society,” writes Dr. Gartenzwerg, “social status is based upon who owns you, the prominence of your placement in yard or garden, and an individual’s willingness to structure their life around the whims of their human owners.” Much like early American Puritans, Southern Garden Gnomes have developed a strict social hierarchy, a low tolerance for formal or informal deviance, and a highly punitive juridical system. While Dr. Gatenzwerg makes no claim regarding the applicability of his research to human society, Juridical Systems and Found Objects is an excellent case study in how the willing “commodification” of individuals may lead to a collective “empathy deficit.”
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A few photos from our first anniversary show at O PATRO VYS in Montreal, courtesy of Robert Levesque.
Claude introducing the show
The Beginning of Time
The Implosive Birth of the Nautilusaurus
Memmbok the Omnivorous, Mammoth Monster of Marble!
Astromuttmania: The "Astromutt Theme"
The Rabbit-Yaga Ritual
The Rabbit-Yaga Ritual
The X-Ray Ogre Beats the Devil
The Undogagon
Closing words from Rupert
Contestants were asked for imaginary books that might be found at Lost Pages, the mysterious bookshop of Claude Lalumière’s The Door to Lost Pages
Readers’ Choice Prizewinner: Don Webb
by Rory Mnenomic
(Goldin Goblin)
Rory Mnemonic realized that the inhabitants of Ool-Athag would be familiar with their recent history and mystified by the city’s nonhuman origins, so the book is written backwards from the current day toward the dim past, with the last chapters written in pre-human hieroglyphs.
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Contestants were asked for imaginary books that might be found at Lost Pages, the mysterious bookshop of Claude Lalumière’s The Door to Lost Pages
runner-up: Kam Oi Lee
by Salina Desertwalker
(Scorching Land Bureau of Tourism, 2011)
Want a vacation off the beaten path? Consider the Scorching Land!
It may be a searing, desiccated realm where giant arthropods prowl like armoured tanks, fissures exhale deadly fumes, and it hasn’t rained a drop in a hundred years. But look beyond the Scorching Land’s forbidding exterior, and you’ll discover a wealth of delights.
Call your travel agent today!
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Contestants were asked for imaginary books that might be found at Lost Pages, the mysterious bookshop of Claude Lalumière’s The Door to Lost Pages
runner-up: Jay Caselberg
by Louis Pierre Louvel
(Black Hand Press)
Comprehensive guide to interiors and floor plans including the best niches, alcoves, and other places of concealment. Updated with a new chapter on assassination.
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Contestants were asked for imaginary books that might be found at Lost Pages, the mysterious bookshop of Claude Lalumière’s The Door to Lost Pages
runner-up: Laura Rainbow Dragon
by Cora Bore and Ice E. Tales
(Gastric Juice Books Inc.)
Unemployed linguist Cora Bore and failed restaurateur Ice E. Tales were drilling for oil in Canada’s high Arctic when they made an amazing discovery: the world’s oldest extant cookbook.
When initial drilling efforts failed to yield the black gold, Bore and Tales did not despair. Instead, they developed new methods of analyzing their core samples, determined not to miss anything. These new analyses failed to identify oil; however, they did show an unusual ionization pattern in the deepest layers of ice. Bore soon discovered that this ionization pattern was in fact an ingenious written language (of what prehistoric creature, who can say?). With the help of Tales’s culinary expertise, Bore was able to transcribe 101 recipes from the ice record, including such gastronomic delights as: fried trilobite, small shelly fauna stew, and Ediacaran potage.
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Lost Myths, by Claude Lalumière & Rupert Bottenberg, launched one year ago today! Celebrate by helping to spread the Lost Myths gospel! Repost, tweet, blog, FB, or otherwise share your favourite Lost Myth from the archives.
Lost Myths and ChiZine Publications are holding a contest in which you can win Claude Lalumière‘s new book, The Door to Lost Pages.
Dream up an imaginary book that could be found on the shelves of Lost Pages!
The contest details are here. Meanwhile, over at Lost Myths, we’re debuting a new category, the Lost Pages Library, with an example of the kind of entry we’re looking for in the contest. (Although you submit text only, not art.)
