With his success, Blabey is finally getting LA’s red carpet treatment as an author, that he could only dream about getting as an actor. He sounds genuinely awestruck as he recalls seeing Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs for the first time, in a Melbourne cinema when he was 18. That space in the middle is where the right balance is.”īlabey has never met Tarantino, whose influence casts a noirish shadow (refracted through a gentle lens) over the film and the books, but Tarantino is “one of the five people in the world, if I met him, I think I’d have a heart attack,” he says. I just started to think about the stuff I loved as kid.” He wondered if he could “hot wire” books, incorporating “iconography, like Tarantino’s films, that’s not suitable to kids, but not neuter it, do it in such in a way that you leave out the bits that are too scary or too full on.” He has a formula he follows for every book: “On my wall I have written ‘smart/dumb’ and ‘scary/funny’.
The original inspiration for the series came from Blabey’s then six-year-old son, who was bringing home “these unforgivably boring readers.
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