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Erik Bergstrom, author of Grimmer Tales, our guest blogger for the week of 1/4/10

Mon, 01/04/2010

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Erik Bergstrom is our guest bloggers during the week of January 4th. If you have any questions for Erik Bergstrom, add a comment to any of his posts. Here is some more information about Grimmer Tales: A Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories:

A hilarious collection of upended fairy tales that will recast your classic family favorites in an all-wrong light

Remember those beloved fairy tales you read as a child? Where the damsel in distress is rescued by the handsome prince and then they all live happily ever after? Well Grimmer Tales is just like that. Minus the happy and the ever after!

In these pages you'll find classic tales twisted, tweaked, and riddled with morbid humor. Little Boy Blue blows his brains out, Pinocchio impales his dentist when asked if he's been flossing and Rapunzel's head comes off at its stem when her prince charming climbs the tower.

Get ready for your nostalgia-o-meter to flicker enthusiastically while shivers course up your spine at the all-wrong acts committed by the heroes and heroines of yesteryear.

About Erik Bergstrom:

Erik Bergstrom can be found in New York City either scribbling on little pieces of paper or performing stand-up comedy. Originally from Minnesota, he graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and his art includes acrylic and digital work. Bergstrom has received awards from 3x3 Magazine and the L.A. Society of Illustrators. Grimmer Tales is his first book.