I’ve never heard of Scottish artist Charles Naysmith before, but apparently he has a new graphic novel out about the “world’s worst poet,” William Topaz McGonagall. Scotsman.com has the details:
Unlike the squeaky clean fare of the Beano and Dandy, The Comic Legend Of William McGonagall is strictly an adults-only affair, with a host of risqué illustrations that would surely have left the God-fearing Dundonian covering his eyes in disbelief.The book, which is bound in jute as a tribute to McGonagall’s roots as a weaver, features the much-mocked 19th-century tragedian rubbing shoulders with a host of latter-day stars, including John F Kennedy, Elvis and Charlie Chaplin.
The cover of the surreal tome also depicts the pock-marked poet sharing a post-coital cigarette with Marilyn Monroe while a train plunges into frozen waters in the background.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sold.
