The Big Book of Weirdos (1995)

New York City: Paradox Press (book, comics, anthology), 1995.
10.75" x 8.5" x 0.625", 224 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-56389-180-8.

The Big Book of Weirdos by Carl Posey and 67 comic artists, as published by Paradox Press (New York City) in 1995. A comic anthology of biographies of interesting and unusual personalities.

Includes Dave DeVries' 4-page comic biography of William S. Burroughs, pp. 84-87.

Contents: 

• Carl Posey: introduction
• Unruly Rulers – Autocrats and Dictators: 
• Randy DuBurke: "Elagabalus"
• Richard Piers Rayner: "Gaius Caesar-Caligula"
• Ed Hillyer: "Ivan the Terrible"
• Simon Fraser: "King Ludwig II of Bavaria"
• James Romberger: "Adolf Hitler"
• Mark Badger: "King Farouk"
• Onward, Crackpot Soldiers – Military Men:
• Colin MacNeil: "Lt. Hiroo Onoda
• Greg Ruth: "T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)"
• Chris McLoughlin: "The Great Impostor"
• Michael Zeck: "Idi Amin"
• Oddly Godly – Evangelists and Philosophers:
• Tony Harris: "Rasputin"
• Rick Geary: "Cyrus R. Teed"
• Rebecca Guay: "Aimee Semple McPherson"
  
• Joe Staton: "Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff"
• Robin Smith: "Aleister Crowley"
• Steve Leialoha: "Marcello Creti"
• Graham Higgins: "Wilhelm Reich"
• The Written Weird – Novelists and Poets:
• Roger Langridge: "Edgar Allan Poe"
• Will Simpson: "Guy de Maupassant"
• Donald David: "Franz Kafka"
• Dave DeVries: "William S. Burroughs"
• Leo Durañona: "Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce"
• Jeff Parker: "Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky"
• Curtain-Call Crackpots – Performers and Playwrights:
• Al Davison: "Sarah Bernhardt"
• Steven Leiber: "Edward Askew Sothern"
• Gary Amaro: "Chung Ling Soo"
• Jim Fern: "Harry Houdini"
• Woodrow Phoenix: "Alfred Henri Jarry"
• Craig Hamilton: "Isadora Duncan"
• Ted Naifeh: "Vaslav Nijinsky"
• Arts and Daft – Entertainers and Artists:
• Greg Theakston: "Shipwreck Kelly:
• Robert McCallum: "Moondog"
• Hunt Emerson: "Erich Von Stroheim"
• Art Wetherell: "Clara Bow"
• Mitch O'Connell: "Ed Wood, Jr."
• Russell Braun: "Vincent Van Gogh"
• Zina Saunders: "Andy Warhol"
• Frank Quitely: "Salvador Dali"
• Technically Bent – Inventors and Scientists:
• Richard Case: "Thomas Edison"
• Tayyar Ozkan: "Nikola Tesla"
• Peter Gross: "Henry Ford"
• Feliks Dobrin: "Edward Leedskalnin"
• Rick Parker: "Walter Freeman"
• Joe Phillips: "Franz Anton Mesmer"
• David G. Klein: "Lord Monboddo"
• Michael Avon Oeming: "Grey Owl"
• Dough-Nuts – Tycoons and Millionaires:
• David Hine: "Mad Jack Mytton"
• Nghia Lam: "Stephen Tennant"
• Alec Stevens: "The Witch of Wall Street"
• D'Israeli D'Emon Draughtsman: "Bernarr Macfadden"
• Batton Lash: "Sarah Winchester"
• Jamie Tolagson: "William Randolph Hearst"
• Graham Manley: "The Collyer Brothers"
• Danny Hellman: "Howard Hughes"
• Mixed Nuts – Miscellaneous Weirdos: 
• Tom Sutton: "Marquis de Sade"
• Mark Wheatley: "Dr. James Barry"
• Linda Medley: "June and Jennifer Gibbons"
• Teddy Khristiansen: "Stewart and Cyril Marcus"
• Floyd Hughes: "William James Sidis"
• Mitch Waxman: "Jeremy Bentham"
• Kieron Dwyer: "Norton I, Emperor of The United States"
• Robin Smith: "Lord Sutch"
  
• Michael Jantze: "William Lyon Mackenzie King"
• Peter Kuper: "J. Edgar Hoover"
• Artists' Biographies
• Bibliography
• Copyrights
• Index