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Stuck in a dead end job? A loveless marriage? Let Tim and Eric apply The Zone Theory to your life! Tim & Eric's Zone Theory starts off as a strange but seemingly earnest self-help program, but it gradually becomes clear that The Zone is a dangerous and violent cult and this book is meant to indoctrinate and brainwash the reader, urging them to abandon or murder their families amongst other unspeakable things. Zone Theory will be a four-color book with an array of design elements-charts, photographs, sidebars, fake advertisements. It will reflect Dada-influenced, absurdist, kinetic tradition of the authors' Adult Swim TV-series Awesome Show, Great Job!, appealing to the duo's die-hard fan base but also make waves beyond their established following.

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Surrealist icon Salvador Dali and iconoclast comedians The Marx Brothers planned a never-made film that merged their sensibilities in a sublime mashup of absurdity, surrealism, slapstick, and wit. But the original screenplay was lost until now. It sounds like fan fiction, but it s true: modern art icon Salvador Dali struck up a friendship with chaotic pantomimer Harpo Marx, which led to a proposed film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. Rejected by MGM studios, the script was thought lost forever. But author Josh Frank found it, and with comedian and writer Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric; Tim and Eric s Zone Theory) and Spanish artist and comics creator Manuela Pertega, he s recreated the film that Dali and the Marx Brothers would have made as a graphic novel that presents the story in all its full-color, fully cinematic, fully surreal glory. In Giraffes on Horseback Salad, normality clashes with imagination as a businessman named Jimmy (played by Harpo) is drawn to the mysterious Surrealist Woman, whose very presence changes humdrum reality into Dali-esque fantasy. With the help of Groucho and Chico, Jimmy seeks to join her fantastical world but forces of normalcy try to end their romance and pull them down to earth. Josh Frank s expansion of the original film treatment is aided by new Marx Brothers antics created with Tim Heidecker, including comedy bits, songs, and visual gags. Bookending the recreated movie are illustrated text pages that relate real-world events leading to the project, and what happened after. A remarkable plural marriage of art, absurdity, biography, and comedy, Giraffes on Horseback Salad is a cinematic, comedic, and literary experience like no other.

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