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Happy Hour
  • Published: 10 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781770468412
  • Imprint: Drawn & Quarterly
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $45.00
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Happy Hour

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20 Oct 2026
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10 Nov 2026
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A generational talent’s old cartooning soul returns for a second round

Edward Steed continues his winning streak as the most exciting cartoonist in The New Yorker’s pages in the 21st century. Hailed as the last great hope of the single panel gag strip, the sole saving grace of a print media taking its last dying breaths, Steed brings a deftly scrawled lacerating sense of humour that alludes to classic New Yorker cartoonists like Charles Addams, William Steig, and Sol Stenberg as well as modern cringe alt-comedy. 

With Happy Hour out hot on the heels of his best-selling and critically-lauded debut collection, Forces of Nature, Steed proves he’s no flash in the pan but an enduring comedic talent. Every page in this collection is a hilarious master class on how to tickle a funnybone.
  • Published: 10 November 2026
  • ISBN: 9781770468412
  • Imprint: Drawn & Quarterly
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for Happy Hour

"In Happy Hour, ordinary life keeps its manners even when reality has lost its mind. Ed Steed has built a comic world as singular as any in New Yorker cartooning. Addams, Chast, Steig, Steinberg: you've got company."—Bob Mankoff

"Steed is obscenely good at this and it fills my heart with the ugliest sort of envy. It should be illegal for anyone to be this good."—Emily Flake