Baobab Press is proud to announce the release of The King’s Highway, a collection of 119 single-panel cartoons by up-and-coming cartoonist Dicus. To his colleagues at CALA, the author is known as Andrew Dicus, a humanities professor who oversees our writing and storytelling courses. To coincide with the publication of his book, Dicus has given us one of his cartoons to caption!
Add your suggested caption to the comments section by February 18, 2020, for a chance to see it posted here next week:
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE AUTHOR FROM ALL OF US AT CALA!
The King’s Highway hits bookshelves February 11, 2020. CALA will have a book party and other activities around the book in the next month. Take a look at some of the work here: The King’s Highway Sampler Pages
About the Book: Philosophers, bugs, and bears! Horses, cats, and teachers of English! These are just a few of the hilarious inhabitants populating Dicus’s The King’s Highway, a stretch of road in south Brooklyn that, as Dicus imagines it, runs out of the borough in both directions until it has ringed around the globe, traveling through every conceivable life. Travel this road long enough and the extraordinary may become absurd, the absurd extraordinary. Maybe this says something profound about humanity? Or, perhaps, it’s a little tragic? Whatever the case, in The King’s Highway, cartoonist-philosopher Dicus notes with a scrupulous gaze, wry wit, a touch of empathy, and a whole lot of honesty just where he has been and what he has seen on his journeys. Here is a cartoonist who expected a road lined in royalty. Instead, he has confronted the oddities and peculiarities existing right next to us all along The King’s Highway.
Dicus is a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU SPS, where he teaches humanities courses with DAUS and coordinates writing and storytelling curriculum with CALA. As a scholar of the eighteenth century — and an admirer of Jonathan Swift in particular — Dicus finds humor to be the best way to confront and process an often confusing and sometimes discouraging world. After stints in Nevada, Wyoming, Illinois, and Oklahoma, Dicus currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two cats. His cartoons have appeared in Narrative Magazine and The Southampton Review; The King’s Highway is his first book.
For bookings, more information, and review copies please contact danilo@baobabpress.com
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