Fantastic Metropolis

Isinglass in his methodical way impaled them on the corkscrew. All around them soft lives were ripening and slipping away on warm shafts of sunlight bound for the paradise worlds returning with humility to the struggle against the evil residuum. Another fate awaits the deceitful and the malicious. Turning the handle into the soot the lizard cheerfully brought their journey to an end. Languishing in disgrace Ianthina and Wilfrid are immured forever as sunspots.

Allan Kausch is an editor, surreal collagist and author from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has had a handful of shows of his original collages, and is the author of five books: Voyage of Exile, Blackberry Castle, The Wax Baby, Fetch the Stick Dog and Remorse Code and Other Tantrums. A devoted Dickhead, he organized the massive preproduction of the six volumes of the Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick. Until recently he worked as the Continuity Editor for Lucasfilm Ltd., serving as the Star Wars expert under George Lucas, and he received the Harvey and Eisner awards for his editing of Star Wars comic-books. He is now pursuing a freelance existence.

“Ianthina” is from his latest book, Remorse Code and Other Tantrums, of which noted montagist Winston Smith has said: “These artist books are really cool… Max Ernst would be amazed at his legacy… great!”