Bill Griffith, the cartoonist of Zippy the Pinhead fame, wrote and drew this biography of Schlitzie the Pinhead, which also covers the history of the sideshow tradition in America. If Schlitzie didn’t capture your heart and imagination in Tod Browning’s Freaks, he will undoubtedly do so here.
I found this in the Fangoria archive in the Readers’ Poll for worst movies of 1983. This poster is even funnier when you’ve seen the movie. I’ve put the opening credits and title song below, and based on that, I think you’ll know whether or not this one’s for you. The only place I found the movie was on the Internet Archive.
Originally released in 2000, this lands somewhere between the manic repeats of some Plunderphonics tracks and the psychedelic noir of Tipsy while maintaining aspects of a DJ’s performance.
Stephen McClurg 