The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton - Hardcover

Fielding, Noel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857862057 ISBN 13: 9780857862051

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2011

'Growing up in the jungles of India there was no need for drawing or painting, I would sometimes arrange ants into primitive still lives or scratch out portraits onto the trunks of trees. Things changed when I was 11. A lame tiger who owned a stationery shop gave me the keys to his stockroom. I would roll around in acrylic and oil pastels in a reverie, licking canvases and tucking coloured pencils into my wild hair. It was here I learned how to draw and paint well enough to be accepted into Croyden Art College. There, Dexter Dalwood (Turner Prize nominee) taught me and after two years under his supreme tutelage and much hard graft he advised me to become a comedian.'

Review:

"Fielding's visual art is not a million miles away from the disturbing world of Nabootique he and Barratt create in The Mighty Boosh and it's no surprise that his depictions of talking crocodiles, Mick Jagger and disturbing fox-men - Matt Groening meets Hieronymous Bosch - have become highly prized collectibles" (Evening Standard)

"The boy can paint. What's more, his offbeat, pop-art pictures are seriously commercial. Stylistically, it's somewhere between Henri Rousseau and Tove Jansson, creator of The Moomins" (Independent)

"This coffee-table-classic is to be a Mighty Book indeed" (The Sun)

Book Description:

A beautiful and hilarious new book from the star of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and co-author of the massive bestseller The Mighty Book of Boosh

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857862057
• ISBN 13: 9780857862051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224