Holy crap, this makes me jump up and down.
Cruddy is one of the best dark fictions that people haven’t read yet and is a personal favorite of mine.
I reviewed it awhile back:
I swear to God, it’s hard for me to remember reading another book that is as uncompromising in its brutality as Cruddy is. But wrapped up inside of all this brutality is a wicked and black sense of humor that keeps the reader chuckling while the asylum burns to the ground.
Cruddy is bloody, insane, funny, violent, bleak, stark, brutal, and dark. Go read it and be amazed.
PS – You’ve got to love a book that is described as “part Easy Rider and part bipolar Wizard of Oz” and then lives up to the description.
I urge everyone to read it.
Belladonna Feature Films is working on a filmed adaptation of Cruddy by Lynda Barry that will be a mix of live action and animation.
Get all the info after the jump.
Writer: Matt Nix (Based on the illustrated novel by Lynda Barry)
Director: TBDProducers: René Bastian, Linda Moran, Rachel Shane, Betty Thomas
Genre: Comedy/Noir/ A blend of live action and animationAn out-of-work meat cutter takes his over-imaginative eleven-year-old daughter on a drug fueled crime spree across the Nevada desert.
A terrifying and darkly funny tale about a murderous , unemployed meat cutter in search of his swindled inheritance. He takes his over-imaginative eleven-year-old daughter on a cross-country road trip to track it down. Fueled by greed, revenge, drugs and alcohol, the unlikely pair embark on a litany of killings, betrayals and arson, fleeing one crime only to commit another. Cruddy has its surprising denouement in the nightmarish dreamland of the Nevada desert.
“Paper Moon” meets “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” in this darkly funny and inventive journey that will blow audiences away with its daredevil cinematic wizardry.
The following image is from the Belladonna site.
