"Weird, funny, abject, wise, silly, savage, moral, and engaging."―The Independent (London) By turns hilarious, satirical, and brilliant, David Shrigley's full-page illustrations―a combination of drawing, comics, photography, and sculpture―are sui generis: uproariously funny, pleasantly unnerving, and, most of all, really, really cool. Neither "graphic novel" nor "art book," What the Hell Are You Doing? celebrates the surreal world of the artist who created Ants Have Sex in Your Beer and To Make the Meringue You Must Beat the Egg Whites Until They Look Like This―the man Dave Eggers calls "probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived." Four-color illustrations throughout

What the Hell Are You Doing?: The Essential David Shrigley

Arts & Photography

Shrigley, David

Individual Artists

W.W.Norton&Company

A shocking, ethically dubious, disastrously funny, illustrated self-help book about why human beings behave in such peculiar, delightful, and unpleasant ways. The human brain can be a bizarre and disturbing instrument. Thankfully, David Shrigley is prepared to help you with the most vexing aspects of your psyche: alcoholism (“it is terrific fun, of course, but there are problems with it”); mental illness (“unlike a hairdryer, when a brain goes wrong ‘you cannot just throw it in the river and get another one’ ”); and neurology (“We all have internal wiring. Sometimes this wiring comes loose. . . . Check for loose wires and re-fasten them with glue.”). How Are You Feeling? takes readers on a journey between the ears, explaining how the brain decides what is right and wrong and why some people are very charming and others behave like monkeys. Dave Eggers has called Shrigley “probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived.” His side-splitting illustrated handbook questions the stability of self, the meaning of help, and whether that self was ever worth helping. Color throughout

How Are You Feeling?: At the Centre of the Inside of the Human Brain

Comics & Graphic Novels

Comic Strips

Grip drags the reader into the dark and humorous world of cult artist David Shrigley. The drawings, which are all new, are a day book for the new millennium. Grip is the largest collection of Shrigley's work published to date, and includes 16 colour illustrations, and an Afterword by Patricia Ellis. A compendium of art forms and ideas, pocketbooks offer a contemporary generalist vision of Scottish culture.

Grip

Polygon

Not for the faint of heart, Shrigley's black-and-white drawings, text, and photographs are dangerously funny and appealingly offensive. Chances are, if you pick up this joyous little book, you'll struggle to put it down.

Joy: 22 Postcards

Chronicle Books+

Pop artist David Shrigley's work is immediate, sometimes rude, and very funny, "like a psychotic version of Matt Groening's 'Life in Hell' cartoons" (The Guardian). His darkly brilliant, addictively hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have already made him a star in the UK, with a growing legion of fans around the globe. The Book of Shrigley is the most extensive and the first widely available showcase of his edgy but accessible off-kilter vision. Here are bad-tempered pets, strange attractions, work, S-E-X, knitting, wrestling, and a host of other everyday activities, dangers, and amusements laid bare in Shrigley's urgently illustrated panels and wickedly mischievous punch lines. Made up of almost entirely new work and bursting with color and unsettlingly funny truths, The Book of Shrigley is the ideal introduction to this comic genius and the book fans have been waiting for.

The Book of Shrigley

Funny, urgent, bizarre, and honest pop artist David Shrigley's darkly hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have earned him a growing legion of fans around the world. In this mock autobiographical collection his mischievous drawings capture life's anxieties and ambitions from the mundane to the surreal. Here, at last, is The Truth about beer, doctors, shadow puppets, lunch, dolphins, boredom, and supernatural forces. Seductively strange and addictively amusing, this edgy little book welcomes the uninitiated and rewards the faithful.

Who I Am and What I Want

Funny, urgent, bizarre, and honest pop artist David Shrigley's darkly hilarious scrawls from the subconscious have earned him a growing legion of fans around the world. Human Achievement collects new truths, anxieties, and amusements from the mundane to the surreal in an addictively strange and entertaining picket-sized primer that welcomes the uninitiated and rewards the faithful.

Human Achievement

The third of three collectible pocket-sized books of David Shrigley's addictively strange and entertaining work reveals new truths, anxieties, and amusements in a format that welcomes the uninitiated and rewards the faithful.

Let's Wrestle

This all-new collection of David Shrigley's addictively strange and entertaining work reveals fresh, unsettling truths and anxious amusements in a format that welcomes the uninitiated and rewards the faithful.

Ants Have Sex in Your Beer

History & Criticism

International pop artist David Shrigley's intuitive scrawls and deadpan humor mine unsettling truths and deliver anxious amusements. This all-new collection of his addictively entertaining work welcomes the uninitiated and rewards the faithful with a fresh dive into Shrigley's dark, strange world.

Red Book

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