The Greatest Stories Never Told

The Greatest Stories Never Told
The Greatest Stories Never Told

By Tony Husband (Corgi)
ISBN: 978-0- 552133-40-1

What is it about the Judaeo-Christian religion that positively invites us to laugh along with it? When I was a wee lad at the convent, there used to be a periodical pamphlet called the Crusade Messenger that the nuns would sell to us kids. There may have been uplifting fables and wholesome tracts in them, but all the children ever read were the copious jokes and gag pages. But I digress.

Accepting that – for the moment – there’s loads in the Bible that we can laugh at, who better than the prolific and award-winning cartoonist Tony Husband (of The Reduced… series of books and a jazillion other gag-tomes) to bring them to our attention in a smart, cheeky but never disrespectful and certainly not blasphemous manner, Hem Hem.

Ranging from dry and laconic to just plain silly these doodles will carry you back to Sunday School and happy hours spent whittling your name into somebody’s else desk and stifling the urge to say “yeah, but…” to that know-it-all in the cassock… It’s no sin to laugh so track down this nifty little chronicle for a spiritually uplifting moment or two.

© 1988 Tony Husband. All Rights Reserved.