Harvey Knight's Odyssey

“These stories are both funny-haha and funny-strange. Maandag’s world is a mix of banality and weirdness. Imagine The Office rewritten by David Lynch.” —Tom Gauld, author of Revenge of the Librarians

“Harvey Knight’s Odyssey [is] one of the strangest, funniest books you will read this, or any, year.” —The Irish Times

“[It's] closer to anti-comedy than most of Maandag’s stuff. It builds humor, even suspense, from withholding the punchline. Maandag certainly knows his way around an anti-climax.” —The Comics Journal

“Corporate anomie and the madness of modernity are taken for a spin in this alternately ambitious and shoe-gazing collection of comics short stories from Maandag.” —Publishers Weekly

“Compulsively readable and entirely unpredictable….True humor cartooning is maybe the most difficult genre to work within, and Maandag does so fearlessly.” —Comics Beat

“Both true to life and completely disarming.” —Montreal Review of Books

“Nick Maandag is an astute observer and has an undeniably unique perspective on what it means to live in today’s increasingly fractional, irrational world. We need more voices like his because it is only by acknowledging the inanity of what we spend so much time doing that we can begin to try and change it.” —Broken Frontier

“[Harvey Knight's Odyssey] could only be told by Nick Maandag... The collection features several stories that show drama and even horror in the mundane alongside the mind-boggling surreal.” —BlogCritics

“For Maandag, the humor is found in that repeated defiance of reader expectations.” —Rob Clough, High Low

“[A] well-textured, rewarding experience offering several laugh out loud moments.” —Slings & Arrows