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by Hans ten Cate
Sunday, 22 September 1996
Here are some of the recent and more notable additions to the Monty
Python Bibliography. This bibliography was created to help Python fans
keep track of Monty Python memorabilia. It is brought to you by the
makers of Monty Python's Daily Llama and is now, of course, also a part
of PythOnline.
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GOBLIN COMPANION: A FIELD GUIDE TO GOBLINS - This handsomely
illustrated and humorous look at goblins could rightly be viewed as
a sequel to Terry Jones's and Brian Froud's Lady Cottington's Pressed
Fairy Book, released in 1994. In actual fact, however, this is a re-release
of Goblins of the Labyrinth published ten years ago. Even though the
sketches and text is the same as the original, this new version is in
a slightly smaller format with a new cover. Due to its smaller size,
it has unfortunately lost some of the beautiful full-color plates painted
by Brian Froud which were in the original book. Nevertheless, the book
is great and some of Terry Jones's descriptions and stories about the
various goblins are truly hilarious. The original "Goblins of the
Labyrinth" was the basis for the characters used in the movie "Labyrinth,"
for which Terry Jones wrote the screenplay.
THE GOBLIN COMPANION: A FIELD GUIDE TO GOBLINS,
by Brian Froud and Terry Jones, Turner Publishing, Inc., 1996 (U.S.)
ISBN 1-57036-284-X (hardcover)
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CENTURY OF COLLEGE HUMOR - This is a real find. While visiting
a used-book shop recently, we came across this book on American college
humor magazines. Out of curiosity, we checked to see if Occidental College's
Fang Magazine was mentioned in it. "Fang" was the humor magazine
Terry Gilliam worked on while attending school at Occidental (and may
be the inspiration behind his Cardinal Fang character in the Spanish
Inquisition sketches). Not only was Fang magazine well represented,
we were amazed to find a huge two page cartoon, "Quick Henry...
the FLIT!" drawn by none other than Terry Gilliam!! Boy was I embarrassed
when I asked Terry Gilliam to explain the cartoon and was told that
the term "flit" refers to both a bug spray and a homosexual.
I think we'll leave it at that! Although the book mentions many now-famous
personalities who once wrote for college humor publications, Terry Gilliam
was not widely known in 1971 and is, unfortunately, not highlighted
in the book. If they only had known!
A CENTURY OF COLLEGE HUMOR: CARTOONS, STORIES,
POEMS, JOKES AND ASSORTED FOOLISHNESS FROM OVER 95 CAMPUS MAGAZINES,
edited by Dan Carlinsky, Rae Publishing, Inc., 1971 (U.S.) ISBN 0-394-46002-2
(hardcover)
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