The Book of Onions: Comics to Make You Cry Laughing and Cry Crying

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Ranging from the relatable to the utterly nonsensical and bizarre, The Book of Onions focuses on themes ofloneliness, desperation, and failure. And misplaced optimism. And perverted talking fruit. Sortof like Gary Larsons The Far Side,if Gary were way less accomplished and suffered from depression.

Reviews

Witty, subtle, and surreal, these comics look like they were drawn by a time-traveling Victorian caricaturist with a strange mind and a keen eye for the oddities of modern life.(Reza Farazmand, creator of Poorly Drawn Lines)
Deranged, beautiful, hilarious, and poignant, Jake Likes Onions is one of my absolute favorite comics.(Matthew Inman, Eisner Award-winning creator of The Oatmeal and #1 New York Times bestselling author)
"Jake's gags sting. And they have many layers. And they stay with you for quite a while. All very much like the eponymous vegetable."(Nicholas Gurewitch, The Perry Bible Fellowship)

Author Bio

Jake Thompson is a 29-year-old advertising copywriter who lives in Minneapolis. Back in 2015, he created an Instagram feed titled Jake Likes Onions to express his strange and depressing sense of humour. Over the course of 2 years, the comic has become one of those viral Internet things thats shared and followed all over the planet. Pretty cool!