A worthwhile backward look

I reviewed the original book when it first came out in 2003:
A handsome selection of Posy Simmonds cartoons that mostly appeared in the weekly book review supplement of The Guardian. They all relate to literature and especially publishing, either as strips or whole page cartoons. My favorites are the strips for Ask Doctor Derek, where a handsome young MD solves medical (literary) problems like a bout of plagiarism, the incredibly contagious writers cliché or dreadful critics mauling syndrome. Simmonds drawing style is typically British, slightly soft and with a caricature edge as opposed to the slick graphic style of Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury for example.

This revised edition is a bit larger than the original and has more material, which I assume is the thirteen pages after a blank page near the back of the book. This includes a six page all color strip (though one page oddly is in mono). Posy has a wicked sense of humour, especially when she is exposing the phonies of the English publishing establishment. A bull's-eye every time and great fun, too.