Toot toot! Pip pip! Braapp!! Join Steven Appleby as he explores the language of farts in this multi-lingual and fully European book, which includes farting in French, German and Spanish! Discover the supercilious and pretentious f'Art, marvel at the totally silent 'secret service' fart, and cringe at the mock-tudor suburban fart-effect fart. Not forgetting the Left Bank intellectual I stink therefore I am. There's a fart here for everyone! Farting is a fact of life. It's ubiquitous. Something every living thing - baby, child, adult and even tortoise - does. Perhaps not insects - but then who knows? So, let's embrace the humble fart and celebrate its glorious diversity.
Steven Appleby is a British and Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, writer and visual artist based in London, whose comic strips are best known for their absurdist humour. Appleby studied graphic design at Newcastle Polytechnic (1978–1981), then illustration at the Royal College of Art of London (1981–1984), where they met future major collaborators George Mole and Malcolm Garrett. Appleby cartooning work first appeared in the magazine 'New Musical Express' in 1984 with the Rockets Passing Overhead comic strip about the character Captain Star, later featured also in 'The Observer', as well as other newspapers and comic magazines in Europe and America. Other comic strips followed in many publications, including 'The Times', the 'Sunday Telegraph' and 'The Guardian'. In particular, the strip series Steven Appleby's Normal Life made into a radio series for the BBC. Appleby's debut graphic novel Dragman (2020) was awarded the Jury Special Prize at the Angoulême Comic Festival, in 2021 and the award for Best International Comic Book at the Erlangen Comic Salon, Germany in 2022. Appleby’s illustrations and paintings have appeared in numerous exhibitions and on a number of album covers for pop-rock bands, such as Duran Duran and Pixies. In 2008 Appleby came out as transgender. In 2021, Appleby stated to be "relaxed about pronouns," going by both "Steven" & "he" and "Nancy" & "she."