Chapter 1: Prologue: Suburbia’s Favorite Artist
Chapter 2: Gray Flannel Suit: The Reinvention of Walter Keane
Chapter 3: Margaret: Life Before Walter
Chapter 4: An Evening at the Hungry i: North Beach Beginnings
Chapter 5: Waif World: Big Eyes, Big Money
Chapter 6: The Split: Going Their Separate Ways
Chapter 7: Down and Out in La Jolla: Walter’s Last Stand
Chapter 8: Epilogue: Tomorrow Forever
Published to coincide with the release of the major motion picture,
Big Eyes, directed by Tim Burton
Extensive author tour
Excerpt in BoingBoing, Vice
Posters and postcards
Cletus Nelson: Cletus Nelson is a contributor to books published by
Process Media, The Disinformation Company, and Creation Press.
Adam Parfrey is the editor of Apocalypse Culture, Apocalypse
Culture II, It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the
Postwar Pulps, and co-editor of Sin-a-Rama: Sleaze Paperbacks of
the '60s. He is the co-writer (with Craig Heimbichner) of Ritual
America: Secret Brotherhoods and their Influence on American
Society, and (with Maja D'Aoust) The Secret Source: The Law of
Attraction and its Hermetic Influence Throughout the Ages, (with
Brendan Mullen and Don Bolles) Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and
Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs. Adam also wrote the
compilation Cult Rapture, which contained his early feature article
on the crazy Keane story.
"This stunning investigative report pulls back the curtain of
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"This stunning investigative report pulls back the curtain of
maudlin decorative kitsch to reveal the hedonistic and depraved
stylings of a true american mountebank” — Frank Kozik
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