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St Sukie’s Lunatic Asylum for Demented Toys
by St Sukie de la Croix & Roy Alton Wald
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For the Young at Heart and the Wildly Imaginative – Welcome Home!
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St Sukie’s Lunatic Asylum for Demented Toys invites you to escape reality and plunge headlong into a surreal, whimsical adventure where demented toys find redemption in the care of eccentric clockwork nurses, and a tamarin monkey doubles as a mischievous assistant. This latest creation by St Sukie de la Croix, with mesmerizing illustrations by Roy Alton Wald, sweeps you into an asylum like no other, where the lost magic of childhood is alive and thriving.
For those whose minds still wander where they please, who dance to unheard melodies and laugh in the face of convention, this is your calling card. Will you join the ranks of the Auntie Mames, the dreamers who refuse to be grounded?
In St Sukie’s Lunatic Asylum for Demented Toys, you’ll encounter wild characters like Reverend Rupert Thorn, a snow globe collector who keeps Greek wrestlers in glass prisons, Nurse Gwen, who manages maniacal toy clowns, and even a poor rocking horse with a case of severe agoraphobia. Each page drips with humor, madness, and charm, brought to life in bizarrely beautiful detail.
Discover the secrets of the Frankenstein Room, where the vampiric teddy bear might just be due for a shock, and eavesdrop on the antics when an elephant starts singing in the larder. This world of mayhem and delight sits quaintly outside the village of *Icing-on-the-Cake*—and once you cross its borders, you may never want to leave.
Prepare for an unforgettable ride that will rekindle your sense of adventure and remind you why imagination is worth preserving. St Sukie’s Lunatic Asylum for Demented Toys isn’t just a book; it’s a portal for those daring enough to dive back into the strange, unfiltered magic of childhood wonder.
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About the Author
St Sukie de la Croix
St Sukie de la Croix has been a social commentator and researcher on Chicago’s LGBT history for three decades. He has published oral-history interviews; lectured; conducted historical tours; documented LGBT life through columns, photographs, humor features, and fiction; and written the book Chicago Whispers (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012) on local LGBT history. St Sukie de la Croix, the man the Chicago Sun-Times described as “the gay Studs Terkel,” came to Chicago from his native Bath, England, in 1991. He has had columns in local publications and online news and entertainment sources, including Chicago Free Press, Gay Chicago, Nightlines/Nightspots, Outlines, Blacklines, Windy City Times, and GoPride.com, as well as numerous others outside the city. In 2008, he served as a historical consultant and an on-screen interviewee for the WTTW television documentary “Out & Proud in Chicago.” In 2005 and 2006 he had two of his plays, “A White Light in God’s Choir” and “Two Weeks in a Bus Station with an Iguana,” performed by Chicago’s Irreverence Dance & Theatre Company. A popular and engaging lecturer, he has spoken at a range of venues, from Chubb Insurance to Boeing and from Horizons Gay Youth Services to the Chicago Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. His crowning achievement came in 2012 when the University of Wisconsin published his in-depth, vibrant record of LGBT Chicagoans, Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. With a foreword by noted historian John D’Emilio, the book received glowing reviews and cemented de la Croix’s deserved position as a top-ranking historian and leader. In 2012, de la Croix was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. Two years later he moved to Cathedral City, California, and in 2017 published The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity, a novel set in 1924 Chicago, followed by The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp Art Café in 2020. In 2018 he published The Memoir of a Groucho Marxist, a work about growing up Gay in Great Britain, and in 2019, Out of the Underground: Homosexuals, the Radical Press and the Rise and Fall of the Gay Liberation Front. Also in 2019 he published St Sukie’s Strange Garden of Woodland Creatures with celebrated illustrator Roy Alton Wald. It was in 2019 that St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen launched their Tell Me About It Project, which led to the 2019 publication of Tell Me About It, Tell Me About It 2, and in 2020, Tell Me About It 3. In 2020, St Sukie’s latest work of fiction, The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp-Arts Café, the second book in the popular Spong Series, was published. He is also the author of the popular comic Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, which follows the hysterical adventures of Brian & Stéphane, a retired gay couple. The series includes Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, God’s Waiting Room, and Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Strange Case of Donna Reed’s Missing Wig, Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer, Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Lady in Gray & The Bessie Mae Diamond, Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Great New Orleans Powder Puff Caper, and Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Hunt fo the Hairdo Killer,
Roy Alton Wald grew up in Winchester Center, Connecticut, a small town in the foothills of the Berkshires. After graduating from the Gilbert School, Roy moved to Massachusetts to study illustration and design at the Art Institute of Boston. His interests were in painting, lino block prints, and book illustrations.
Roy makes his home in Cathedral City, California with his husband and two dogs. His inspirations come from the creatures and flora of his youth in New England, the California desert, and international travel. Their dogs are his constant companions as he draws in his studio on the edge of the desert.
“Living in the desert with my husband has given me the time to work seriously on my artwork. There’s a lot in my head just waiting for the right inspiration to break free.” Morning walks provide photographic material for reference in fantasy illustrations. Roy’s prior work includes a book cover for “The Memoir of a Groucho Marxist” by St Sukie de la Croix and together they produced a second book, “St Sukie’s Strange Garden of Woodland Creatures.” Currently Roy is working on another St Sukie collaboration, “St Sukie’s Asylum for Deranged Toys.”