All My Friends Are Dead
- authors/illustrators: Avery Monson http://www.averymonsen.com/ & Jory John http://www.bigstonehead.net/
- medium: marker and digital color
- year of publication: 2010
- city of publication: San Francisco, CA
- publisher: Chronicle Books
- ISBN: 978-0-8118-7455-7
Annotation: An amusing collection of musings on death. Here, in accessible cartoon form, are the amusing existential predicaments of clowns, cassette tapes, dinosaurs, zombies, snowmen, houseplants, and others as they each face the inevitable.
Personal Thoughts: Essentially this book is comprised of a series of jokes. The jokes are cynical and hilarious, poking fun at the myriad anxieties felt from modern people today, as well extinct species, zombies, pirates and abominable snowmen, etc. The humor is a definite chronicle of our time. This is "emo" kid humor. Cassette tapes are obsolete. On a deserted island with only 2 people, one is bound to hate the other more. Why exactly does the ventriloquist make out with his dummy? It's difficult to explain why this clever little book is so funny. Is this generation dense due to the fact that we know it's funny without being able to explain why it's funny. Maybe it's just me.
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