Underground Sketchbook | Tomi Ungerer

Originally published in 1964, Tomi Ungerer's infamous Underground Sketchbook became a notorious aesthetic talisman, spoken about with awe by cartooning lovers. It is the first book in which the award-winning children's book illustrator lets loose a blast of social commentary, dada-esque observations, and existential angst; underpinned by coruscating and absurdist humour. Underground sketchbook is, among other things, a relentless rage against avarice, unfettered consumerism, alienation, the exploitation of everything, the mechanisation of human experience, and the public acquiescence to the worst instincts that fuel a modern economy - as timely as it was then, if not more so. Conceived by an internationally renowned artist, this book is as powerful a dose of visual ingenuity, moral outrage, and bemused disgust at the human comedy that you are ever likely to experience.