An illustrated parody of T.S. Eliot and Raymond Chandler tells the story of L.A. private detective Christopher Marlowe and his search for his partner's murderer

The Waste Land

Humor & Entertainment

Rowson, Martin

Humor

Harpercollins

In this wise, witty and highly topical book, Martin Rowson argues that both religion and pet-keeping are monumental wastes of time. But both enterprises tell us about who we are, which is perhaps a more important question.

The Dog Allusion: Gods, Pets and How to be Human

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Vintage Digital

The award-winning cartoonist tells the story of Earth from the Big Bang, the death of the dinosaurs, the invention of the wheel, the Trojan War, Nazism, 9/11 and beyond, to the End of the World, in sixty-seven splendidly satirical images, all with only a one-word caption.

Fuck: The Human Odyssey

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

JONATHAN CAPE.

Imperial Exits is a viciously vile realization of the untimely ends of some of the great names of imperial Rome, through the witty words of Julius Cicatrix and the scatalogical sketches of Martin Rowson. Here, in all their fading grandeur are Hadrian (copious bleeding from the nose), Galerius (suppurating inflammation of the genitals), Maximin Daia (battered his head against a wall until his eyeballs fell out), Augustus (ate a fig, lovingly poisoned by his wife Livia), Tiberius (stifled by a pillow), and Titus (thoughtfully packed in ice to bring down a fever; he froze to death). The only happy ending in this sorry crew was that of Diocletian who reigned for twenty years, put the Roman world to rights, and retired to grow cabbages at his villa by the sea. A hilariously horrid history lesson, Imperial Exits is a must for classical scholars, antiquarians, and lovers of true crime.

Imperial Exits: Being an Account of the Varied and Violent Deaths of the Roman Emperors

Cicatrix, Julius

Reference

St Martins Pr

L.A. Private eye Christopher Marlowe is searching for his dead partner`s killers. In his wanderings in a nightmare world of literary allusions he meets a range of characters including T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Pan Books, Ltd.

Everything has a downside, if only you looked at it the right way. Award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson tells the story of Earth, from start to finish, in sixty-seven savagely witty, splendidly satirical vignettes. Each image features a one-word speech bubble proving that almost every milestone in history had its downside and can therefore be summed up in one succinct, withering, mood-deflating expletive. This alternative history will appeal to pessimists of every stripe, young and old. Contrarians and curmudgeons who already know that every great event was a let down to someone somewhere will instantly embrace the incredible wisdom of this priceless series of cartoons. Every historical turning point is satirically savaged—the emergence of life, the death of the dinosaurs, the invention of the wheel, the Trojan War, the Crucifixion, the discovery of America, the Revolutionary War, the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, Communism, consumerism, the Cold War, the War on Terror—all the way to the end of the world.

F*ck: The History of the World in 65 Unfortunate Incidents

Comic Strips

Universe

Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books

The Wasteland

Borgo Pr

In Martin Rowson’s The Waste Land, private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland. Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody is inspired in equal parts by the classic modernist poem and by the American noir novels of Raymond Chandler. Marlowe, searching for his dead partner’s killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, duped, pistol-whipped, framed by the cops and going nowhere fast, Marlowe enters a nightmare world where Robert Frost, Norman Mailer and Edmund Wilson drink in the gloom of a London pub; where Auden is glimpsed entering the men’s room; where Henry James, Aldous Huxley and Richard Wagner share an ice cream aboard a Thames pleasure steamer; and where, out of luck and out of clues, Marlowe finally tracks down T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Available now for the first time in a decade, this is an unforgettably strange trip through modern literature with one of Britain’s best of writers and illustrators.

Arts & Photography

Seagull Books

Pen Is Mightier Than The Word

Publishers

Knockabout Comics

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