The Tragedy Series: Secret Lobster Claws and Other Misfortunes - Hardcover

Dewey, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250060621 ISBN 13: 9781250060624

Publisher: Griffin, 2015

Synopsis

<p>Welcome and good tidings, ladies, gentlemen, and all manner of upstanding, sentient beasts.<br><br>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!<br><br>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.<br><br>Benjamin Dewey's <i>The Tragedy Series </i>is an addictive collection of funny-sad comics based on the popular Tumblr blog.</p>

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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, Oni, and IDW, as well as commercial illustration. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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The Tragedy Series

By Benjamin Dewey

St. Martin's Press

Copyright © 2015 Benjamin Dewey
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-250-06062-4

Contents

Introduction, 
Explanation of the Puzzle & Code, 
Tragedies and Sadness Reprieves, 
Lady Excelsior & Friends Adventure, 
About the Author, 
Puzzle Answer, 

INTRODUCTION

HELLO, READERS, and welcome to this comprehensive collection of melancholy tableaus that I provide for your instruction and enjoyment. "How did this sequence come to be?" you might ask. That is a fine and well-phrased question. Like many artistic endeavors, I undertook this project after agreeing to play chess with a known ursine psychopath and winning despite warnings of his competitive nature. The subsequent brush with death, convalescence, recovery, and eventual but reluctant friendship that resulted from my ill-advised victory dance taught me a valuable lesson. As the great philosopher Poplockrates once said, mid headspin, "Per Aspera Ad Astra." He was referring to the effects of his dizziness but the truth that emerged from his mumblings remains a salient point. It is through aeronautical failure, mistakes with fire, and other awkward tumbles upon the tightrope of life that we learn to reach our full stature.

Take these vignettes of comic-sadness to heart. Commit them to memory and avoid the fate of those less-fortunate bunglers, hubristic sea captains, and other disaster-prone eukaryotes with whom you share this grand, ongoing pageant of mystery. With the extra time not spent weeping over your crushing disappointments, I suggest you take up a productive activity or develop a skill that properly applied brings joy to others like a hybrid of bakery and earnest portraiture or pie'traiture. Every moment that you heed the counterexamples found within these pages is one spent avoiding the judgment of unfriendly bees while simultaneously experiencing what the Germans call "Schadenfruede," which, I have come to understand, is something like watching your nemesis trip over their favorite Fabergé egg into a pile of pies, all of which you hate. Learning to avoid mistakes in this way, in other words, has its pleasures.

The Bard of Avon once wrote that "When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools" and he was correct. By means of psychic transference via a mentally gifted beetle associate, I have learned that the youngest amongst us are profoundly disappointed by most of our actions. Let us remedy this sad state of affairs and begin crafting a new phase of existence that elevates us all to the status of that brave giraffe who was the first to summit Earth's tallest peak and then ascend bodily to the realm where Zeus gifts terrestrial heroes with elegant medals and pastries crafted in their likenesses.

Excelsior, Most sincerely, BD

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Griffin
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250060621
• ISBN 13: 9781250060624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306