The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
A poetry collection.
From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance – witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children – misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and the tragedy of these dark yet simple beings – hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and let us laugh at a world we have long left behind (mostly anyway).
Contents:
- Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love
- Robot Boy
- Staring Girl
- The Boy with Nails in His Eyes
- The Girl with Many Eyes
- Stain Boy
- The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
- Voodoo Girl
- Stain Boy's Special Christmas
- The Girl Who Turned into a Bed
- Roy, the Toxic Boy
- James
- Stick Boy's Festive Season
- Brie Boy
- Mummy Boy
- Junk Girl
- The Pin Cushion Queen
- Melonhead
- Sue
- Jimmy, the Hideous Penguin Boy
- Char Boy
- Anchor Baby
- Oyster Boy Steps Out
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Tim Burton
Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton (born 1958) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, his most recent film, that was the second highest-grossing film of 2010 as well as the sixth highest-grossing film of all time. Among Burton's many collaborators are Johnny Depp, who became a close friend since their first film together, musician Danny Elfman (who has composed for all but five of the films Burton has directed and/or produced) and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter. He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation of his drawings, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009.