Angus Oblong
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Angus Oblong is the creator of The Oblongs and the author of Creepy Susie & 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children (1999), among other stories.
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[edit] Angus Oblong Possible False Information
Angus Oblong likes to live a life of secrecy, so when people ask him about his personal information, he usually provides false information. He also provides a false age, often claiming to be 70-105 years old. He often also plans on dying soon.
Oblong maintains his secrecy with a veil of biographical nonsense. He claims to have been raised in a travelling circus, and maintains his clown upbringing to this day. He claims he was once a famous child clown performer, banished from the circus for drawing cartoons of his side-show comrades in offensive situations, and has continued this practice until it became his profession later in life. Oblong has drawn hundreds of illustrations of bizarre and often offensive situations that have become the foundation of his books and television series.
As of 2006, he is involved in divorce proceedings due to the fact that his wife wants a sex-change.
[edit] Angus Oblong Books
His books are often written to resemble children's stories, but are geared towards adults, and are usually about bizarre situations, including people with "freakish" deformities, demonic possession and murder, among other topics. The stories almost always end in gruesome or bizarre deaths to at least one character.
He has one nationally published book, "Creepy Susie & 13 Other Tragic Tales For Troubled Children." It consists of 13 short stories of adult-oriented humor. Many of the characters from his TV Series "The Oblongs" appear in this book, including Milo and Creepy Susie.
He sells individual stories on his website. He also has a hidden book online on his website.
[edit] The Oblongs
His short-lived cult TV series, The Oblongs, airing as originals on The WB and in syndication on TBS, continues the strangeness of his books, but in a somewhat less gruesome way.
It was released on DVD in 2004, it includes the whole series plus interviews with Angus Oblong and more of the shows staff.
[edit] Other Information
Oblong attended the University of California, Berkeley. He resides in Los Angeles, California with his pet pig named The Countess.
Deliriously Jen was a TV Pilot that he directed and helped make. It aired at several film festivals in 2005.
The Victorian Hotel, a play written by Oblong, and created in association with Rogue Artists Ensemble, featuring many of his characters as puppets, is playing now in Santa Monica at the Powerhouse Theatre thru December 2nd.
He used to own a tan hearse, but it broke down.
