The Big Book of Weirdos

by Carl A. Posey

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The stories of dozens of people who are remembered for their brilliant contributions to fields from art and literature, to science and entertainment, but who were also really strange, are told here by Carl Posey and drawn by dozens of well-known cartoonists.

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Carl A. Posey
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Amaro, Gary (Illustrator)
Badger, Mark (Illustrator)
Braun, Russell (Illustrator)
Case, Richard (Illustrator)
David, Donald (Illustrator)
Davison, Al (Illustrator)
DeVries, Dave (Illustrator)
Dobrin, Feliks (Illustrator)
Draughtsman, D'Israeli D'Emon (Illustrator)
DuBurke, Randy (Illustrator)
Durañona, Leo (Illustrator)
Dwyer, Kieron (Illustrator)
Emerson, Hunt (Illustrator)
Fern, Jim (Illustrator)
Fraser, Simon (Illustrator)
Geary, Rick (Illustrator)
Gross, Peter (Illustrator)
Guay, Rebecca (Illustrator)
Hamilton, Craig (Illustrator)
Harris, Tony (Illustrator)
Hellman, Danny (Illustrator)
Higgins, Graham (Illustrator)
Hillyer, Ed (Illustrator)
Hine, David (Illustrator)
Hughes, Floyd (Illustrator)
Jantze, Michael (Illustrator)
Klein, David G. (Illustrator)
Kristiansen, Teddy (Illustrator)
Kuper, Peter (Illustrator)
Lam, Nghia (Illustrator)
Langridge, Roger (Illustrator)
Lash, Batton (Illustrator)
Leialoha, Steve (Illustrator)
Leiber, Steven (Illustrator)
MacNeil, Colin (Illustrator)
Manley, Graham (Illustrator)
McCallum, Robert (Illustrator)
McLoughlin, Chris (Illustrator)
Medley, Linda (Illustrator)
Naifeh, Ted (Illustrator)
O'Connell, Mitch (Illustrator)
Oeming, Michael Avon (Illustrator)
Ozkan, Tayyar (Illustrator)
Parker, Jeff (Illustrator)
Parker, Rick (Illustrator)
Phillips, Joe (Illustrator)
Phoenix, Woodrow (Illustrator)
Quitely, Frank (Illustrator)
Rayner, Richard Piers (Illustrator)
Romberger, James (Illustrator)
Ruth, Greg (Illustrator)
Saunders, Zina (Illustrator)
Simpson, Will (Illustrator)
Smith, Robin (Illustrator)
Staton, Joe (Illustrator)
Stevens, Alec (Illustrator)
Sutton, Tom (Illustrator)
Theakston, Greg (Illustrator)
Tolagson, Jamie (Illustrator)
Waxman, Mitch (Illustrator)
Wetherell, Art (Illustrator)
Wheatley, Mark (Illustrator)
Wilson, Gahan (Introduction)
Zeck, Michael (Illustrator)

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The Big Book of Weirdos
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Elagabalus; Caligula; Ivan the Terrible; Ludwig II, King of Bavaria; Adolf Hitler; Farouk I of Egypt (show all 69); Hiroo Onoda; T. E. Lawrence; Ferdinand Waldo Demara; Idi Amin; Grigori Rasputin; Cyrus Teed; Aimee Semple McPherson; George Gurdjieff; Aleister Crowley; Marcello Creti; Wilhelm Reich; Edgar Allan Poe; Guy de Maupassant; Franz Kafka; William S. Burroughs; Ambrose Bierce; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Sarah Bernhardt; Edward Askew Sothern; Chung Ling Soo; Harry Houdini; Alfred Jarry (Alfred Henri Jarry); Isadora Duncan; Vaslav Nijinsky; Shipwreck Kelly (Aloysius Anthony "Alvin" Kelly); Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin); Louis Thomas Hardin (Moondog); Erich von Stroheim; Clara Bow; Ed Wood; Vincent van Gogh; Andy Warhol; Salvador Dalí; Thomas Edison; Nikola Tesla; Henry Ford; Walter Freeman; Franz Anton Mesmer; James Burnett, Lord Monboddo; Grey Owl; John "Mad Jack" Mytton; Stephen Tennant; Henrietta Green; Hetty Green (Henrietta Howland Robinson); Bernarr Macfadden; Sarah Winchester; William Randolph Hearst; Homer Collyer; Langley Collyer; Howard Hughes; Donatien Alphonse-François, Marquis de Sade; James Barry, c.1790-1865 (doctor); June Gibbons (The Silent Twins); Jennifer Gibbons (The Silent Twins); Stewart Marcus; Cyril Marcus; William Sidis (William James Sidis); Jeremy Bentham; Joshua Abraham Norton (Norton I, Emperor of the United States); Norton I, Emperor of the United States (Joshua Abraham Norton); Screaming Lord Sutch; Mackenzie King; J. Edgar Hoover

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Graphic Novels & Comics
DDC/MDS
741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
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PN6726 .P67 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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