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"The Bizarro literary movement is the ultimate in outsider lit."
- 3AM Magazine
"[Bizarro is] universally intriguing, thoughtful, intelligent and, most importantly, a hell of a lot of fun."
- The Pedestal Magazine
WHAT IS BIZARRO?
1. Bizarro, simply put, is the genre of the weird.
2. Bizarro is literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store.
3. Like cult movies, Bizarro is sometimes surreal, sometimes avant-garde, sometimes goofy, sometimes bloody, sometimes borderline pornographic, and almost always completely out there.
4. Bizarro strives not only to be strange, but fascinating, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to read.
5. Bizarro often contains a certain cartoon logic that, when applied to the real world, creates an unstable universe where the bizarre becomes the norm and absurdities are made flesh.
6. Bizarro was created by a group of small press publishers in response to the increasing demand for (good) weird fiction and the increasing number of authors who specialize in it.
7. Bizarro is like:
Franz Kafka meets John Waters
Dr. Suess of the post-apocalypse
Takashi Miike meets William S. Burroughs
Alice in Wonderland for adults
Japanese animation directed by David Lynch
Even though the Bizarros are underground cult outsiders, they still have gained an incredible amount of respect in the publishing industry. Having been praised by the likes of Chuck Palahniuk, Christopher Moore, William Gibson, Piers Anthony, Michael Moorcock, and Charles de Lint, to name a few, as well as the publications Asimov's Science-fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-fiction, Cemetery Dance, Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Face, among many others. They have also been finalists for the Philip K Dick Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Pushcart Prize.
Bizarro isn't just weird fiction, it is DAMN GOOD weird fiction. And it grows exponentially every single day, so, love it or hate it, you'll be seeing a lot more of it in the years to come.
FOR A PERFECT SAMPLING OF THE BIZARRO GENRE, CHECK OUT:
THE BIZARRO STARTER KIT SERIES
 
THE BIZARRO STARTER KIT (ORANGE):
Featuring short novels and short stories by D. Harlan Wilson, Carlton Mellick III, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Kevin L
Donihe, Gina Ranalli, Andre Duza, VIncent W. Sakowski, Steve Beard,
John Edward Lawson, and Bruce Taylor.
THE BIZARRO STARTER KIT (BLUE):
Featuring short novels and short stories by Ray Fracalossy, Jeremy C. Shipp, Jordan Krall, Mykle Hansen, Eckhard Gerdes, Andersen Prunty, Bradley Sands, Steve Aylett, Christian TeBordo, and Tony Rauch.
BIZARRO REFERENCES
wikipedia - Bizarro at wikipedia
When Bizarro Became Bizarro - Carlton Mellick III's rant on Bizarro BIZARRO-MANIA!!! - a love letter to the Bizarro genre
BIZARRO CENTRAL STAFF
CONTENT EDITORS - Rose O'Keefe, John Edward Lawson, Karen Townsend
WEBMASTER - Simon Logan
GRAPHIC DESIGN - Carlton Mellick III
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