Bob Dob just blogged (try saying that 5 times fast…) about a cool project he did last year that’s now available. Bob did the cover art and interior illustration’s for Dale E. Basye’s first novel: Heck: Where The Bad Kids Go. The premise:
When Milton and Marlo Fauster die in a marshmallow-bear explosion, they get sent straight to Heck, an otherworldly reform school. Milton can understand why his kleptomaniac sister is here, but Milton is — or was — a model citizen. Has a mistake been made? Not according to Bea “Elsa” Bubb, the Principal of Darkness. She doesn’t make mistakes. She personally sees to it that Heck — whether it be Home Ec class with Lizzie Borden, Ethics with Richard Nixon, or Gym with Blackbeard the Pirate — is especially, well, heckish for the Fausters. Will Milton and Marlo find a way to escape? Or are they stuck here for all eternity — or until they turn 18, whichever comes first?
I remember when I was a kid and everything was all about the Bears (Care Bears and Berenstain Bears). Children nowadays, they’ve got the good stuff: the Strange (Emily) and the Ugly (Dolls). Since the little heathens are heading down a dark path, it’s nice there’s this guide for them. The book has an interactive Flash website with lots of goodies and is available in print form for $11.89 from Powell’s. Bob is currently working on illustrations for the follow up novel.
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