You are nothing. Your friends are nothing. Your parents are nothing. Your siblings are nothing. I am nothing. Nobody is nothing. There is nothing nowhere, at all. Except this book, which is something. Rarely have simple line drawings been made to enact the kinds of scenarios found in Icelandic artist Hugleikur Dagsson’s cartoons. From the absurd to the offensive to the immoral, Dagsson includes every taboo out there.
“Cannibalism, incest and general mayhem. And that’s just for starters.” THE GUARDIAN
“It’s just this random collection of drawings by some guy! Basically, if you and some buddies sat down at a bar, and scribbled some crude doodles of fart jokes onto a napkin, and then stapled those napkins together, you have this book.” ANOTHER GUY ON AMAZON.COM
(b.1977) is Iceland’s uncrowned prince of the graphic novel. His work has received a great deal of praise both in Iceland and abroad, although some people look on his comic strips as childish scribbles.