Salmonella Smorgasbord - by Mark Stafford (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A compilation of comics, art and graphics by the cartoonist Mark Stafford, collecting his small press books, magazine strips, anthology contributions and previously unpublished works under two covers for the first time.

Salmonella Smorgasbord also contains a hefty selection of Mark's illustration work, as well as theatre posters, record covers, beer labels and t-shirt designs, cartoons, collaborations and other flights of fancy. From the rare and unforgettable to the obscure and inexcusable, if he rendered it, it would all be here. Apart from the stuff he left out.

This edition includes a foreword by David Hine and an interview with Mark Safford conducted by Jason Atomic.

Review Quotes

"well-paced sense of monstrous sickliness." - AP2HYC

"[Mark Stafford] bowled me over with his art and his bowler hat!" - Shelly Bond

"Dark and creepy and funny and just beautiful - I love everything about Mark's stuff - One of my favorite all around cartoonists. One of those guys that inspires one minute and the next you want to hang it all up cause there is just no way you can ever measure up." - Mike Mignola

"Decidedly chilling and disturbing Lovecraftian fable of vengeance, madness and things that go bump in the night" - Mass Movement

"From horror and whimsy to romance, Stafford is a surprisingly versatile style. Every iconoclast should be lucky enough to find so gratifying an anthology as this." - The Comics Journal

"Mark is a cartooning supernova, with his mercilessly cool drawing and painterly color & design, along with his dry & twisted British sense of humor. I'm amazed by every new piece by him." - Gene Ha