{"product_id":"fancy-people-adventures-book","title":"Fancy People Adventures book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e~PRE-ORDER~\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003erelease date is Halloween 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Top tier, pure cartooning here, collected finally for your corporeal enjoyment. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhil Elverum is one of the great North American poets, his musings on the natural world are some of the finest produced in the past century. The first time I met Phil he took my copy of his album ‘Song Islands’ by The Microphones and graffitied it into “Dong Islands by Micropenis”. I immediately knew that in addition to being a very serious writer of cosmic musings he was also one of the funniest comedy men on the planet.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e                 - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/collections\/simon-hanselmann?srsltid=AfmBOop1X1W4Zme8HzCWg97NCYfcYi-qHMGuR3TZaRjf61cMi1LzD1Kd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSimon Hanselmann\u003c\/a\u003e, New York Times Bestselling cartoonist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFancy People Adventures\u003c\/em\u003e is an underground comics zine published intermittently in very low print runs from around 1998 to present. It's mostly been by Phil Elverum, but originally the zine had a very loose open door policy for both contributors and contributed jokes. It's mostly actual documentation of overheard idiocy. Anthropological. \"Fancy\" in Fancy People does not mean what you think it means. They're humor? They're free jazz tone poems. They're somebody's cup of tea. They're your \u003cem\u003eexact\u003c\/em\u003e style. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow these wild scraps of shredded mind are finally collected in a beautiful official hardcover book:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e196 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e162mm x 143mm (6 1\/2\" x 5 1\/2\")\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ehardcover wrapped in linen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ecopper foil stamped\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003epaper stock: Munken Print Cream, 150gsm, FSC certified\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eendpapers: Gmund Moonlight Deep Glance, 125gsm, FSC certified\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(They're at the printer in Lithuania right now. I'll post more photos of the actual book when I get my hands on one. They're going to be really nice.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOh yeah, also, they have been made into this series of feature length films:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=GjwYrCBLNYuwOZ_O\u0026amp;list=PLDcM663OCrZxQHIAKM7Yu96vYUxxeJ5Ql\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"P.W. Elverum \u0026 Sun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52568608669927,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4179\/3984\/files\/mockup1.jpg?v=1788545077","url":"https:\/\/www.pwelverumandsun.com\/products\/fancy-people-adventures-book","provider":"P.W. Elverum \u0026 Sun","version":"1.0","type":"link"}