Thursday, April 11, 2019

Museum Artifact: "The Curse of Bakamono," a Chick tract parody.

 Troy Davis writes: 


I like this Chick tract and what it's attached to.  The tract was part of the 45 rpm record by the 90s hardcore band Bakamono that includes the songs "Gypsy" and "Ms. PacMan." It's a 12-page largely stream-of-consciousness comic that focuses on Bakamono. I loved the record cover art of "shiny" anime art by artist Aaron White. The other side has an illustration of a sumo wrestler farting a Japanese symbol. The back cover of the tract mimics the Chick tract format of the time and indicates that the tract is compliments of "Big Jesus Enterprises" and that the museum's copy is number 277 out of 555. 

The Museum of Weird and Demented Religious Tracts is a project of Les Zazous Postmodern Art Galley of Bellaire, Ohio. Read the Welcome Statement of The Museum here.

For more on the gallery, check out the web site here and the gallery's Twitter handle is @ZazousLes.  The Twitter handle for the museum is @WeirdTracts

The index of tracts for the museum's website is here

Contributions of weird tracts to the museum can be made by mail: send your weird tracts to Les Zazous Postmodern Art Gallery 3475 Guernsey Street, Bellaire, Ohio 43906.







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