Phil Somerville's cartoons bear quiet witness to the absurd, the foolish, the frail, the whimsical, the paradoxical, and all sorts of other human stuff. They freeze a moment or unfurl a story and draw the readers' attention to issues of politics, the human race, religion and lifestyle in a timeless humor. He draws about alienation, intimacy, sex, death, God, fear, jingoism, delusion, the cosmos and multi-coloured testicles.
This collection, including new cartoons and many originally published in 'The Bulletin', 'Nexus', 'The Australian's Review Of Books' and weekly in 'The Sydney Morning Herald', ranges from the pointed to the playful, from the sublime to the anal.
