Is This Some Kind of Joke?
  • Published: 27 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141900278
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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Is This Some Kind of Joke?

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Hugleikur Dagsson is the most famous cartoonist in Iceland.

Iceland is very cold, very bleak and very expensive.

The only things to do there are drink and kill whales.

Dagsson’s last book – Is This Supposed To Be Funny? – was a cult international bestseller.

He hopes you likes this one. Otherwise he’ll have to kill some whales
  • Published: 27 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141900278
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
Categories:

About the author

Hugleikur Dagsson

Hugleikur Dagsson. Full name Thorarinn Hugleikur Dagsson (which means "Thor's eagle mindgame son of day"). 051077-5639. Born 05/10/77 in Akureyri. Raised in Reykjavik and Svarfadardalur, a valley in the northen countryside of Iceland. Graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002. Has participated in dozens of art shows, mainly exhibiting drawings, but sometimes photographs and video pieces. He has also dabbled in animation. Started self-publishing his comics in 2002. Got his first bookdeal in 2005. The same year he wrote a play based on his comics. The play, "Avoid Us", won him the best playwright award in 2006 at Griman, the Icelandic theatre awards. Since then he has been busy writing more plays and comics. Favorite Movie: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Favorite band: The Pogues.

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Praise for Is This Some Kind of Joke?

Prepare to laugh until you prolapse your anus, because this is just about the funniest book we've seen in ages... it had us chuckling like a fat man at a free buffet.

Mayfair

Drawn to be riled

GQ

Prepare to laugh until you prolapse your anus, because this is just about the funniest book we've seen in ages... it had us chuckling like a fat man at a free buffet.

Mayfair

'...dazzlingly deranged art...' Seven

'Still simply outrageous' Metro Scotland

Obtain a copy of this by any means necessary. Even if that means murdering small children, raping animals or chopping off appendages, all of which appear in this sick and twisted compilation of 'toons.

Zoo

Sick but brilliant, basically

Big Issue

...enough to shock even the most hardened of sick joke connoisseurs

Quench
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