Product Description

Hugleikur Gagsson's Should You Be Laughing at This? has achieved revered cult status and taken the Icelandic publishing world by storm. Of course, Iceland is a country whose national drink is called "Black Death," national dish is putrefied shark meat, and national literacy rate is 99.9%. That may give you a small idea of the dark but brilliant mind behind the shamefully addicting cartoons in this book. From the absurd to the offensive to the immoral, Dagsson includes every taboo out there. And when you find yourself snickering and cackling, you'll stop and ask yourself, "Should You Be Laughing at This?"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #239189 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-01
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

About the Author

Hugleikur Dagsson is from Iceland. His full name is Thorarinn Hugleikur Dagsson (which means "Thor's eagle mind game son of day"). He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2002 and has participated in dozens of art shows, mainly exhibiting drawings, but sometimes photographs and video pieces. He has also dabbled in animation. He started self-publishing his comics in 2002 and received his first book deal 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.

Customer Reviews

Crude, Dark, Hilarious!
I came across this book in B&N while looking for a little lovey-dovey book to send in a package to my girlfriend as she travels for work. I saw the red cover and the size and thought it might fit the bill. Then I opened it and immediately let out a bark of laughter. I didn't bother finding a seat, I just flipped to the beginning and read the whole thing in the aisle. I ended up buying it there, but it's not going in her package!

This book contains some of the most twisted ideas imaginable presented by these seemingly harmless little cartoons. Believe me, nothing is left off the table. This book is for the people who can find humor in anything. If you're easily offended or have ever attended a book burning, steer clear.

Great book!
If you love purposely-poorly-drawn comics with a brilliantly twisted sense of humour like I do (a la "Cyanide and Happiness"), you'll love this little book.

disgusting and unfunny
The answer is no, you should not. This book is made for stupid, screwed-up, pissed-at-the-world 15-year-olds who live in Hot Topic and go to see Black Christmas on December 25th. It's not funny--just repulsive. My friend was flipping through it in B&N and showed it to me, and we were tempted to deface every copy in the bookstore. It's full of one-frame "cartoons" with little in the way of punchlines. Example: one cartoon shows a woman walking away from a toilet, and there is a word bubble coming out of the toilet(whose contents are unseen) saying, "I love you, Mom." If you think that kind of thing is funny, you probably should have been an abortion yourself.