Scarfolk

Scarfolk
Type of site
Graphic design/internet humor blog
Available inEnglish
Created byRichard Littler
URLscarfolk.blogspot.com
Current statusActive

Scarfolk is a fictional northwestern English town created by writer and designer Richard Littler, who is sometimes identified as the town mayor, L. Ritter. It is trapped in a time loop set in the 1970s, and its culture, parodying that of Britain at the time, features elements of the absurd and the macabre. It was first released as a blog of fake historical documents parodying British public information posters of the 1970s, and a collected book was published in 2014, and the Scarfolk Annual was released in 2019.[1] Scarfolk is depicted as a bleak, post-industrial landscape through unsettling images of urban life; Littler's output belongs to the genres of hauntology and dystopian satire; his psychologically disturbing form of humour has been likened to the writings of George Orwell and J. G. Ballard.[2][3]

  1. ^ Littler, Richard. "Scarfolk Annual". HarperCollins. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
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