The King's Highway

∙ Signings in Brooklyn, Chicago, and Reno

∙ Online and Social Media Campaign: Pitch reviews to National Cartoonists Society; The Center for Cartoon Studies; Comixology; Humor Times; small press expos; book conventions, and comics conventions; college-alumni magazines University of Chicago Magazine, Silver and Blue Magazine, Old North Magazine as well as Queens College and NYU School of Professional Study’s Center for Applied Liberal Arts

∙ Independent Bookstore Campaign

∙ Social Media Campaign on Baobab Press, Reno's Sundance Books and Music, and author's websites, Facebook pages, and Instagram accounts

∙ Digital Galleys available

∙ National Review Campaign

Excerpts in The Southampton Review

Exemplary work in Narrative Magazine

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 the absurdities of the mundane. With fitting, excellent art and an impeccable nose for the peculiar Dicus shows us our world in all of its profound strangeness.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. The King’s Highway is 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 with royalty. Instead, he has confronted the oddities and peculiarities existing right next to us all along The King’s Highway.