Psychedelic Paperchase

By Richard Batty and Steven Picard

Psychedelic Paperchase is a compilation of short texts and pictures compiled by the artist Richard Batty and writer Steven Picard. Richards father died when he was just six years old, and Steven was on hand to look after him when his mother needed a child sitter. They would often play picture consequences, ending up in a hysterically laughing young Richard. They have kept in touch with each other over the years and finally got round to completing this book of psychedelic texts and images.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Aug 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543486742

Richard Batty

I studied Fine Art and Graphic Design at Bristol university of West England. My style is influenced and rooted in 1970’s psychedelic comics, album covers and posters. Compiling this book, firstly I must say I’ve been very lucky to work with a writer of Steven’s calibre, whose texts are very humorous, intelligent and romantic. I was born and raised in London, a real 80’s street kid that excelled in football and other sports. I wasn’t so good at school, not a trouble maker or menace, but I got away with not doing much work. I used to mainly do doodles on my class books which would eventually evolve into my style of drawing found in this book.

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Copyright © 2017 by RICHARD BATTY STEVEN PICARD .

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017912633

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5434-8676-6

                Softcover       978-1-5434-8675-9

                eBook             978-1-5434-8674-2

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

Rev. date: 10/12/2017

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CONTENTS

Still Crazy After All These Fears!

Foreword

Writing

Psychedelic Paperchase

Carrot Cake And Cucumber Cigarettes!

Wind In The Billows!

Metaphorical Mincemeat

Scam The Sham!

Dance Of The Lemmings!

Alphabet Soup

Persistence And Insistence

Beautiful Warrior

It’s The Length That Gets You In The End

Chasity And Froghead

Trees Are What You Make ’Em, Didn’t They!

Double Dutch

Dutch Courage Personified

Space Tout — He Came From Nowhere

Abstract Is AB. Fab.!

In The Throes Of Emotional Madness

The Hopelessness Of Physical Death!

Solitude

We Have Lift Out

Truth?

I Lost My Heart To A Tarantula!

Verily, My True Love Doth Smirk, Psychotically!

Juiced Up

Paddy Paste

I Cover My Eyes

Colin Cadaver

Farting — So What’s The Big Deal?!!

Inside A Head

Panzanella And Cyclops

Overshadow

Lost In Trance

K.P Is Settling In, Too!

The Dark House At The Top

Swimming Against The Tide

The Book Of Beetle Bob

I Charged People To See My Skinless Torso!

Porky Paskin Rides Again!

Information Inflammation

I Looked At My Watch!

Humanoid Unawareness Of Miniscule Life Particles Make Me Embarrassed That I’m Partly Human!!

Equations Of Pharmaceutical Farmyards!

Beware The Shed!

STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE FEARS!

I guess I’ve always been a little crazy!

Ever since I can remember, I was always trying to get through to and get heard by either of my parents, only to realize, yet again, that they were far too preoccupied with their own shortcomings to take much notice of my own childhood questions.

It was about that time that I ran to the sanctuary of my own little world, personally created for peace of mind.

I think it