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It contains nearly 200 cartoons. Their content is mostly sexual, scatalogical, or in other ways 'sick'. The subject matter ranges across incest, AIDS, paedophilia, drug-use, murder and blasphemy. Race is possibly the only taboo not breached within its pages.
They're the work of Icelandic cartoonist and playwright Hugleikur Dagsson. The book is the follow-up to his first volume, [[''Should You Be Laughing at This?]]''. The drawing style is crude in the extreme: black and white stick figures with very little in the way of background.
All of which, in my view, is forgivable if they make you laugh. But, sadly, they didn't. However, in the enquiring spirit of the book's title, it did get me thinking about the nature of humour. What makes us laugh?
