Artist Michael Hacker has created a book of illustrations, celebrating Italian cuisine and creative wordplay. Pizzeria Disgusto is filled with delicious pizza, pasta and other Italian fare — only in anthropomorphic form and renamed appropriately.

Whether it’s E.T. made from spaghetti and renamed Spagh E.T., or a box of head-banging pizza called Moshpizza — the project is often reminiscent of the puns and gross-out humor of Wacky Packages.

Pizzeria Gusto is currently in Kickstarter phase, with lots of goodies available for funders. Check it out here.

[link, via Laughing Squid]