At this year’s Toronto Canzine, we brought together an illustrator, a poet and a zinester for an event that, admittedly, we had little idea of how it would go. A week before Canzine, we gave Andrea Manica, Chris Landry and Leopold McGinnis a list of five Hollywood movies, one of which they would re-imagine, in front of an audience and in their chosen form. A week later, our brave guinea pigs (ahem, contestants) took the stage at Canzine, scribbling, typing and drawing away in a mad race to recreate Ghostbusters. Landry, our zinester, lampooned the film as a “Reagan-era, reactionary screed;” McGinnis, our poet, plumbed the depths of Peter Venkmen’s sexual being and Andrea Manica, our illustrator and ultimate winner, illustrated the highlights of the beloved 80s’ flick, complete with an absolutely adorable flaming marshmallow man. We thought the results too good to keep confined to the Canzine audience lucky enough to hear our participants present their work. So, read on for the most wonderful indie retelling of Ghostbusters…
CHRIS LANDRY (ZINESTER)
LEOPOLD McGINNIS (POET)
“They hate this,”
he says
fingers tinkling on the keyboard
“but the ladies love it,”
he thinks.
The charm
His charm
as he lays it on thick
heaps it on
like gravy
spilling over the keys
But she’s not buying it
Looks at him like he’s a crackpot
Ha!
She’s the one who called
Ghost Busters
She’s the one who called
Peter Venkman
And Peter Venkman delivers
whether its
attention to lonely old ladies
or attention to lonely young ladies
or even middle aged lady crackpots
who call Ghost Busters…
“What’s your name?”
he asks.
“Dana,” she offers reluctantly
“Well Dana.
It seems ok in here to me,”
he says
“But a little messy…”
She seems displeased
Good.
That’s how it always starts
but soon
the charm creeps inside
haunts you
gets inside your bones
like ghosts
in the architecture
and at first you think
you want the ghosts out
that you want
Peter Venkman to leave
but the memory lingers
like the dear departed
and soon enough
who ya gonna call
to haunt you?
to possess you in your body
until you’re writing in bed
longing for the keymaster
hovering five feet above
your passion
in feverish desire
until who you gonna call?
You’ll call this ghost buster
to bust your ghosts
to make your eggs pop
right out of the carton
and fry on the tabletop
until you don’t know
what’s come over you
until you scream out in lust:
“There is no Dana!
Only Zool!”
“Oh yes,”
he says
fingers tinkling on the piano
“They hate this.”
“But,” he thinks
“The ladies
love it.”
ANDREA MANICA (ILLUSTRATOR)
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