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mo ali

now with realistic facial hair!

About Me

Greetings. I was born in a haunted hospital. I'm an artist, poet and writer who is looking for paid work before the (inevitable) apocalypse.
To make matters worse I live in England.

I am a Pushcart Prize -nominated author and am writing (articles, reviews & rants) for Fractal Matter magazine: http://fractalmatter.com --
My regular(ish) column there is called 'Feature Shock' --
Buy my weird paraphernalia at: Mo Ali's Bizarre Bazaar


Arty type stuff is available to squint at my: Flickr gallery --
comicspace: http://www.comicspace.com/moali/
Praise for Mo Ali:

"You can't write the Great American Novel - you're English" - Colette Phair


My Interests

writing, drawing, breathing, sleeping, lurking, admiring chalk outlines, pool, wing chun kuen, le parkour, presdigitation, legerdemain, victorian biotechnology, growing hair, proofreading fatwa's, criticising

I'd like to meet:



FractalMatter
Apocolis: Capital of Nowhere
MooreReppion: John Reppion & Leah Moore
Ansible

Music:

Once I hear something it will loop all day in my cranium like a headvirus ---

Movies:

The Message, Blade Runner, Zatoichi, Lagaan, Frankenstein, King Kong, Godzilla, Dark City, Memento, Superman the Movie, StarTrek 2, The Machinist, Kingdom of Heaven, Le Dernier Combat, Koyaanisqatsi, OldBoy, Brazil, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Alien, Ghost in the Shell, Tron, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Enter the Dragon, Heist, Malcolm X, Snatch, The Fifth Element, Napoleon Dynamite, Flash Gordon, Twelve Monkeys, Shaun of the Dead, HellBoy, Serenity, The Usual Suspects, Repo Man, Evil Dead, Mystery Men, Leon The Professional, Pan's Labyrinth, The Man Who Would Be King, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Ghost Dog, Time Bandits, Remo Unarmed and Dangerous, Starman, Excalibur, Shaft in Africa, A Dog's Breakfast ... (Docu/Other) OutFoxed, The Road to Guantanamo, Super-Size Me, An Inconvenient Truth, The Trial of Tony Blair, The Last Days of the Raj ...and stuff by Tony Kaye

Television:

Futurama, Trap Door, Catty and the Major, Heat Vision and Jack, Ren and Stimpy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Doctor Who, Star Trek TOS, The Lost Cities of Gold, Twin Peaks, Dangermouse, Captain Scarlet, The Twilight Zone, Land of the Giants, MacGyver, The A-Team, Quantum Leap, BraveStarr, Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK), Family Guy, CSI, Knightmare, The Prisoner, Monkey, Firefly, Desmonds, Banana-Man, Columbo, Crystal Maze, Monk, Dennis Pennis, Airwolf, Sapphire and Steel, Douglas Chew Cooks Asia, Heroes, Farscape, 'Miki kharo England'(check youtube), Tales of the Unexpected, Screen Wipes, Everybody Hates Chris, Time Trumpet (as well as other shows by armando iannucci)...and so-on

Books:

Slaughtermatic - Toxicology - The Inflatable Volunteer - Atom - Shamanspace - Fain the Sorcerer - Lint [Steve Aylett] - [Voltaire] - [Billy Childish] - [Thomas Ligotti] - [Jack Vance] - [Banana Yoshimoto] - [Ray Bradbury] - [Jeff VanderMeer] - [Greg Egan] - [Vonnegut] Slaughterhouse 5 - The Vampire Lestat - The Cornelius Quartet [Michael Moorcock] - Vurt - Automated Alice [Jeff Noon] - Altered Carbon [Richard Morgan] - [Alan Moore] - [Jon Courtenay Grimwood] - American Desert [Percival Everett] - [Victor Pelevin] - Neuromancer - Gun with Occasional Music [Jonathan Lethem] - [Jeff Lint] - Arthur magazine - Flex Mentallo - Sea Guy - Vimanarama [Grant Morrison] - [Neil Gaiman] - [Harry Stephen Keeler] - [Raymond Chandler] - [Kerouac] - [Walt Whitman] - Purgatory Theory [Colette Phair] - Dragonsinger - The Horse's Mouth - The Phenomenology of Revelation - [Paul Laffoley] - Razor Wire Pubic Hair - Memoirs of a Beatnik [Diane Di Prima] - Suicidegirls - Alice in Wonderland - [Oscar Wilde] - Jumper - Fantastika - [Cioran] - [JP Donleavy] - Brave New World - Jane's Gun Recognition Guide - Parable of the Sower - Catch 22 - Carter Beats the Devil - Lathe of Heaven - The Anubis Gates [Tim Powers] - The Idiot - [Spalding Gray] - Wilson [David Mamet] - [Lierre Perry] Blue - [Poe] - [HP Lovecraft] - The Contortionist's Handbook [Brian Clevenger] - [William Burroughs] - [John Reppion] [Leah Moore] - [Christopher Priest] - [James Lovegrove] - [China Mieville] - UFO's, JFK and Elvis [Richard Belzer] - The Ninja [Eric Van Lustbader] - Alternative 3 - [Raphael Reig] - [Harold Pinter] - Authenticity - Hiding the Elephant - The Vesuvius Club - [Paul Cornell] - [Dave Langford] - [Dr. Zakir Naik] - [Robert Anton Wilson] -

Heroes:

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My Blog

Temple APA - Issue 0 + "Galleon 43"

I have artwork in Issue Zero of The Temple, the UK's longest running comic APA (Amateur Press Association). Issue Zero (compiled by David Hailwood) is free to download and view: here. ---- I also...
Posted by mo ali on Tue, 06 May 2008 01:57:00 PST

Haunted Liverpool - John Reppion

I have some interior b&w art featured in "800 Years of Haunted Liverpool" by John Reppion (published by The History Press). I have also designed a bookplate for special signed limited editions of the ...
Posted by mo ali on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:51:00 PST

Robots - AccentUK Comics

I have some pin-up artwork appearing in the "Robots" graphic novel anthology, published by AccentUK Comics and available May 2008. More details can be found here: AccentUK...
Posted by mo ali on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:47:00 PST

6 words, + 99 words

A 6 word story available at: Nova Cookie & Frozen Hell -- and a 99 word story done via Warren Ellis's The Engine, based on 'Stardust' (more details here) :- "I didn't mean it!" the President croa...
Posted by mo ali on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:47:00 PST

The Atomic Chef + Jeremy C. Shipp interview

I have a shiny new webcomic called the Atomic Chef: http://www.drunkduck.com/Atomic_Chef/ ---- A short interview with writer Jeremy C. Shipp, author of 'Vacation' :   1. So who had the beard firs...
Posted by mo ali on Fri, 11 May 2007 02:11:00 PST

The End is Nigh .4, Crawlspace .7 + HorrorScope reviews

A submission that will be appearing in The End is Nigh magazine issue 4. Called "A Helpful Guide to Surviving a Massive ATOMIC End-of-the-World ATTACK!!" it is (surprisingly) a  prototype U...
Posted by mo ali on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:53:00 PST

clones

Will the real Mo Ali please stand up?   - Muhammad Ali - (formerly Cassius Clay Jr) "The Greatest" , floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. Thinks he's prettier than me (he is). Rumble young...
Posted by mo ali on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:23:00 PST

Story in Absurdist Journal .4 (prize-nominated)

I have a short story called 'Garbage Moon' published in issue 4 of "BUST DOWN THE DOOR AND EAT ALL THE CHICKENS" aka The Absurdist Journal This story has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. &...
Posted by mo ali on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:52:00 PST

Stories: Dream People .27, Absurdist .5 + Walri

Mo' stories: - 'Fug it' is a surreal romp in issue #5 of the Absurdist Journal (2007) - 'Skyfall' is an experimental piece in issue #27 of The Dream People (April 2007) - 'Something fishy' is a ...
Posted by mo ali on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:58:00 PST

I interview cult satire writer Steve Aylett...

Which can be viewed here: http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=212    
Posted by mo ali on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 01:58:00 PST