Synopses & Reviews
Benjamin Deweys popular online comic is finally compiled in one collection for your melancholy-tinged enjoyment!
The Tragedy Series is comprised of more than 500 sepia-toned vignettes that present those less than rosy paths available to us all. From such heartrending examples of schadenfreude as "triceratops never got to see the ocean" and "taxidermist and necromancer make bad roommates" to the necessary morale-boost of 26 "sadness reprieves," all of lifes peaks and valleys are accounted for. Avoid the hurdles presented by keeping your lobster claws a secret, and many other possible missteps, with the help of the many counter examples found herein. One part Victoriana, one part theatre of the absurd, and the rest full of heart, these illustrations delight the mind and the eye.
The book features exclusive content that includes a 22-page comic adventure, an illustrated introduction by the author and a 100-part puzzle laced within the comics themselves (with a corresponding solution). The Tragedy Series started online but it was destined to have a place on your shelf alongside dusty tomes of forgotten medieval lore, tales of urchins made good, and cryptozoological textbooks of bygone eras.
Review
“A Victorian
The Far Side and in the same vein as the comics of Charles Addams.” —GonnaGeek.com
“Benjamin Deweys series of tragic events has the perfect mix of melancholy and whimsy. Each is a beautifully illustrated vignette that hits you right in the feels.” —io9.com
“A great series...with beautiful design, a dark and twisted sense of humor, and the occasional touch of melancholy and sadness.” —NetNinja.com
"A wonderful Victorian-themed web comic series of absurdist tragic scenarios by Portland, Oregon based comic book artist Benjamin Dewey." —LaughingSquid.com
"A sepia-toned, semi-Victorian-styled, often insightful and amusing-to-hilarious webcomic that illustrates some of the misfortunes, large AND small, banal AND absurd, that befall people, animals, mythical beings and sometimes tableware." —Tooned.In "It is very sad." —TheHairpin.com
Synopsis
Welcome and good tidings, ladies, gentlemen, and all manner of upstanding, sentient beasts.
The book you hold in your hands (pinchers, tentacles, paws, etc.), is a guide to avoiding the more common pitfalls that appear after parting ways with lady luck. You need not be duped by a collection of rats in an elaborate costume, dressed as a handsome suitor, or experience the embarrassment so many have already endured after bringing their ordinarily well-behaved, large sea mammal to an art gallery only to see cultural treasures defiled by inadvertent clumsiness arising from a frame better built for the confines of Poseidon's realm. More than five hundred unfortunate results of the manifold paths our life may offer have been helpfully diagramed for you along with positive affirmations of this veil's wonders and much more
Alexander the Great once remarked that "upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all" and his words may be taken as injunction to obtain this volume for your very own to ensure the continued security of our very civilization.
Benjamin Dewey's The Tragedy Series is an addictive collection of funny-sad comics based on the popular Tumblr blog.
Synopsis
Based on a popular online comic,
The Tragedy Series presents a series of sepia-toned drawings that address such unfortunate events as “what bad roommates the taxidermist and the necromancer make,” or “the triceratops that never got to see the ocean,” or the hurdles to romance that secret lobster claws present. One part Victoriana, one part theater of the absurd, and the rest full of heart, these illustrations delight the brain and the eye.
This collection offers not just an array of funny-sad scenarios, however. Creator Benjamin Dewey also includes both a series of “sadness reprieves” as well as original, exclusive content to draw in the skinflints who might otherwise stick to the Internets free buffet.
About the Author
BENJAMIN DEWEY is the artist behind tragedyseries.tumblr.com, an online hit which has been featured everywhere from Reddit to Laughing Squid to The Hairpin. He belongs to Periscope Studio, the largest collection of freelance comics artists and illustrators in North America. His work can be found in books and comics published by Dark Horse, Omi, and IDW, as well as commercial illustration. He lives in Portland, Oregon.