The essential collection of David Shrigley's work in one volume. British satiric author Will Self describes in his quite moving introduction:

"For Shrigley consciousness can never be explained; it is always deranged...To quibble over whether Shrigley is a 'fine artist' or a cartoonist is just that: quibbling. He is, perhaps, neither - rather he is the maker of meta-textual chapbooks that simultaneously drag us back to a pre-literate past and flog us towards an unutterable future. There is only one essential Shrigley."