National Print Campaign: Advance solicitation to The NY Times, LA Times, New York Review of Books, Gannett and McClatchey properties.Already in discussions with NYTimes and LA Times for a profile of author Tejaratchi.National Web Media Campaign: Vice Online, Dangerous Minds, boingBoing, Huffington Post, HyperAllergic, ArtNews, BuzzFeedSpecialized Print and Online Campaign: Niche media outlets with a focus on humor and art.Trades: Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library JournalNational Radio & Podcast: Solicits for interviews on both national and regional cultural interest programs.Social Media: Feral House has 8600 dedicated fans and followers. Feral House also uses Instagram and Twitter to promote books and engage readers. Tejaratchi maintains the LiarTown USA blog that has thousands of followers.General Tour Info: A launch party is planned in Los Angeles featuring reproductions of the images. A tour of western US bookstores is currently planned. We’ll have more details on 2017/18 appearances in the coming monthsGoodReads Giveaways always get good response for our titles.
The collected posts of surreal website LiarTown satirizing weird vintage books, albums, posters, and other printed ephemera of pop culture.
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National Print Campaign: Advance solicitation to The NY Times, LA Times, New York Review of Books, Gannett and McClatchey properties.Already in discussions with NYTimes and LA Times for a profile of author Tejaratchi.National Web Media Campaign: Vice Online, Dangerous Minds, boingBoing, Huffington Post, HyperAllergic, ArtNews, BuzzFeedSpecialized Print and Online Campaign: Niche media outlets with a focus on humor and art.Trades: Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library JournalNational Radio & Podcast: Solicits for interviews on both national and regional cultural interest programs.Social Media: Feral House has 8600 dedicated fans and followers. Feral House also uses Instagram and Twitter to promote books and engage readers. Tejaratchi maintains the LiarTown USA blog that has thousands of followers.General Tour Info: A launch party is planned in Los Angeles featuring reproductions of the images. A tour of western US bookstores is currently planned. We’ll have more details on 2017/18 appearances in the coming monthsGoodReads Giveaways always get good response for our titles.
The collected posts of surreal website LiarTown satirizing weird vintage books, albums, posters, and other printed ephemera of pop culture.
Description
The collected posts of surreal website LiarTown, satirising weird vintage books, albums, posters, and other printed ephemera of pop culture.
Welcome to Liartown. A place where reality is skewered with a hilarious combination of comedic genius and graphic design wizardry.
For the past four years, Tejeratchi's Liartown USA blog has delighted thousands of online visitors with each new slice of satirical visual commentary. With a selection of the best posts and otherwise unseen material collected into a glossy, full-colour trade paperback, readers can now immerse themselves in an alternate world where blockbusters and bestsellers include Banjo the Man-Faced Dog and the Captain James Feelings' Nautical Romance novels.
Working with a stunning array of source material, Tejaratchi creates clever, uproariously detailed visuals and descriptions of book and magazine covers, films and TV shows, celebrities and 'historical' images that at first glance would pass for the real thing. Upon closer inspection, it becomes apparent that The Hardy Boys Lose Their S*** was never on the shelf at the local library, and the British crime drama Inspector Cliffchap didn't have a time slot on the BBC. Liartown is a convulsively funny compendium of Sean Tejaratchi's brilliant takedowns of popular culture and societal trends.
Critic Reviews
“Tejaratchi's book is dangerous to open if you're in a place where you're not supposed to laugh really hard or there are children. -New Yorker”
Since 2013, the 47-year-old has posted such meticulous fakes on a Tumblr blog called LiarTownUSA, a blend of satirical takedowns appealing both to fans of the Onion and to graphic design nerds yearning for perfect pastiches of 1950s erotic fiction or 70s knitting magazines. He is at his funniest, though, when he goes beyond the zone of plausibility and sends up today's smug mores. The Guardian
Tejaratchi's book is dangerous to open if you're in a place where you're not supposed to laugh really hard or there are children. -New Yorker
About the Author
Sean Tejaratchi is a graphic designer and writer living in Los Angeles, California. He's designed books, created props for for documentary and film, written for television and radio, and is the creator of the zine Crap Hound.
The collected posts of surreal website LiarTown , satirising weird vintage books, albums, posters, and other printed ephemera of pop culture. Welcome to Liartown. A place where reality is skewered with a hilarious combination of comedic genius and graphic design wizardry. For the past four years, Tejeratchi's Liartown USA blog has delighted thousands of online visitors with each new slice of satirical visual commentary. With a selection of the best posts and otherwise unseen material collected into a glossy, full-colour trade paperback, readers can now immerse themselves in an alternate world where blockbusters and bestsellers include Banjo the Man-Faced Dog and the Captain James Feelings' Nautical Romance novels. Working with a stunning array of source material, Tejaratchi creates clever, uproariously detailed visuals and descriptions of book and magazine covers, films and TV shows, celebrities and 'historical' images that at first glance would pass for the real thing. Upon closer inspection, it becomes apparent that The Hardy Boys Lose Their S*** was never on the shelf at the local library, and the British crime drama Inspector Cliffchap didn't have a time slot on the BBC. Liartown is a convulsively funny compendium of Sean Tejaratchi's brilliant takedowns of popular culture and societal trends.
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