Comics / Humor / Squib

David Ross has produced an extraordinary, eclectic and hilarious collection of thematically arranged Scottish insults, abuse and invective which has been wonderfully illustrated throughout by Rupert …

Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipation of intellectual and moral power. Its consequenc …

‘If you are so unfortunate as to have contracted the low habit of smoking, be careful to practise it under certain restrictions’With nineteenth-century fashions constantly changing, but the importanc …

There is something about barber shop conversations that sets them apart from the usual small talk.These exchanges are enjoyed on both sides of the chair. Here is a range of stories from funny to eye …

A Sunday Times Best Humour Book of the Year 2017 How can you tell if your neighbour is speaking Muslim? Is a mosque a kind of hedgehog? Can I get fries with that burka? You can’t trust the media any …

‘If I am dreaming, let me dream on, – but I defy any one to awaken me! – Let me contemplate the air studded with barques travelling with such rapidity as to humiliate the Ocean and all the locomotive …

A beautiful illustrated celebration of friendship. ‘Do it for the story!’ ‘He’s interesting to you because he’s tall. Tall is not a skillset.’ ‘Life is not a competition. If I am good at something yo …

William Makepeace Thackeray’s ‘Vanity Fair’ is a masterful satire that delves into the intricacies of early 19th-century British society, exposing the moral vacuity and social ambitions of its charac …

Now revised and updated to include The ‘Ins and Outs’ of making the movie Zack & Miri, and a new afterword. Anything but boring, Kevin Smith shares his x-rated thoughts in his diary, telling all in h …

In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward’s open letter ‘An Appeal Against Female Suffrage’ was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. I …