Comic releases book of local newspaper stories

Dave Spikey is to release his first book: a collection of strange local newspaper headlines.

The comic uses such cuttings in his stage act, and will now release some of the best in a 192-page compendium due out in time for the lucrative Christmas market.

The book, published by Michael O’Mara, is named after one such headline: He Took My Kidney, Then Broke My Heart.

Others include Fun With Ferrets At The YMCA from the Halifax Courier, Llama Drama Ding Dong (Lancashire Evening Post) and Sloppy Beavers Let In Eight, from a Bolton newspaper.

The publishers say: ‘Each news story is framed and analysed by Dave’s comic running commentary… with his trademark wit and humour.’

Meanwhile Lucy Porter has contributed the foreword to another of the company’s Christmas books, Hairy Hunks: A Celebration of Shaggy Stallions – a collection of cheesy photographs of hirsute men.

According to the blurb: ‘Lucy Porter is a stand-up comic, writer, and admirer of hairy men. After developing an early affection for fuzzy chests, Lucy’s thing for hirsute men grew over the years—she was at an impressionable age during the Eighties designer-stubble fad, and realized that she secretly preferred the full-on ZZ Top look. She was delighted when Jake Gyllenhaal grew a beard.’

Click here to pre-order Spikey’s book.

Published: 15 Jun 2009