The Tragedy Series

✍ Scribed by Benjamin Dewey

• Publisher: St. Martins Griffin;Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 13 MB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 146686608X

✦ Synopsis

"Benjamin Dewey's 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 life's 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 as a Tumblr blog 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"--;"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"--;Explanation of the puzzle & code -- Tragedies and sadness reprieves -- Lady Excelsior & friends adventure -- About the author -- Puzzle answer.