Book tips for Joscha Sauer

Nichtlustig 1
Hamburg: Carsen-Verl., 2003. 64 S.
ISBN: 3-551-76441-7
The artist’s Nichtlustig homepage has long been cult. The site of non-jokes receives around 30,000 hits a day. The highlights of Joscha Sauer’s digital creations are collected in this volume of the ‘Nichtlustig’ series. The first volume is testimony to Sauer’s success as he makes the transition into print media. Two further volumes swiftly followed the success of the first.
Nichtweihnachten
Hamburg: Carlsen Verl., 2005. 80 S.
ISBN: 3-551-78641-0
Nichtweihnachten is Joscha Sauer’s fourth book, not part of the ‘Nichtlustig’ series. Nonetheless figures familiar from the Nichtlustig books pop up here. For new-comers to Sauer’s cartoons, too, there is plenty to discover and laugh about in these pages that come up with answers to the most impossible questions about Christmas.
















