New Gilliam Book?

[Two Pages a Week]

In the recent (and wonderful) Empire podcast interview with Terry, it was mentioned that he has a book coming out soon. I can't find any information on it. Does anyone here know anything more?

[bruttenholm]

The book is a memoir written by Gilliam with apparently a lot of Gilliam's artwork collected by his daughter Holly.
It will be published in october by Canongate Books and called "Gilliamesque".

The plan was initially to have a Gilliam exhibition at the moma around the release of the book, I don't know if the plan still stands.

Terry and Holly Gilliam in deep discussion as we try and work out who best to design Gilliamesque, his superb memoir.

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[Two Pages a Week]

Sounds great! Thanks for the reply.

[phildreams]

Gilliamesque
A Pre-Posthumous Memoir
Terry Gilliam

From his down-home childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the bleeding edge of ‘60s and ‘70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's picaresque odyssey has been a match for any of those he has depicted on celluloid.

Telling his own story for the first time in words and images, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys complements an extraordinary collection of never-before-seen artwork with a memoir every bit as pungent and surprising as fans of his Monty Python animations would hope.

Gilliam's coffee-table autobiography blends the visual and the verbal with a scabrous wit. Its cast of supporting creatures includes not just the expected creative collaborators – fellow Pythons Palin and Cleese, George Harrison, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, etc. – but also an amazing array of cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of the late twentieth century.

From Woody Allen to Frank Zappa, Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb, and Richard Nixon to Hunter S. Thompson, Gilliam's encounters with the great and the not so good are revealing as well as funny.

[cclark]

According to this PDF, the UK publication date is November 2014 (see page 18).

[bruttenholm]

First preview of 2 pages of Gilliam's memoir, courtesy of the french publisher Sonatine which will publish the french translation in about a year :

[bruttenholm]

Gilliam's autobiography, called "Gilliamesque" will apparently be published next june.

[TlatoSMD]

With a girl like that, I'd also be "quite happy, in a way"!

[phildreams]

And here is the cover of the book...

[bruttenholm]

Sanjeev Bhaskar has another view, from a promotional bag, apparently :

I don't know if the edge will be really decorated like that but if it will, then it's pure genius.