my new filing technique is unstoppable

My new technique is unstoppable

by David Rees

A humorous collection of surreal, office-based cartoons that focus mainly on filing and filing-related topics.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Humor, Graphic Novels Comics

Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

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David Thomas Rees is a cartoonist and humorist whose best-known work combines bland clip art with outrageous "trash talk" to incongruous effect.

Reviews

[Wilde Sky · Rating 4 out of 5]

A series of cartoons based on office life.

I found some of the strips laugh out loud funny - they represent the absurd way that most offices work.

Reading time around 45 minutes.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've had this for years, and worried that it wouldn't be nearly as funny the second time around. I was wrong. Basically just a compilation of David Rees web comics from years ago, before he went all political with "Get Your War On". If you love inane humor, a metric ton of profanity and homemade production values, this is your ticket to an hour of pure ecstasy. Wish it were longer, and some of the strips are pure filler, but when it's on there's nothing else like it. Fast reading, but god is it worth it.

[Josh Ashing · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some quirky, funny office throwback humor via clipart comics that will actually make you crack up.

[Rio R. Islip · Rating 4 out of 5]

[••••] This reader’s favourite kind of dumb, absurd humor.

[Gaelan D'costa · Rating 1 out of 5]

There's probably a reason why everyone loves this, but I don't personally get it.

It's clearly about the cultures at some kind of shitty environments, but I guess I'm lucky in that I never had to experience it. I don't enjoy any of the people, whether it be the crackpot managers with silly office metrics based on nonreality or the staff who stay at a place they don't enjoy but also sabotage themselves and others at any chance they get.

It reminds me of retail culture, a mixture of management arrogance/incompetence and employee apathy.I don't find it funny, just depressing.

I may also be too much of a software developer for the random barfage of terminology to anything but weird and nonsensical.

All in all, I'm very happy to not enjoy this book because my life sounds like it would suck if I did. I hope all the best for the people that enjoy this book, I wish I could change the world so that nobody had to be in environments like these.

[Melanie Doyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book will appeal most to people who endured the office culture of the 80s and 90s, which entailed much "Team Building" and other motivational bullshit, in addition to the usual administrative redundancies. Phrases like "Excel the data", "Strategies for Success: Why Don't you Have one? Because you can't file for shit" and "Holy Crap! I've outpaced my own empowerment!" had me laughing out loud, as did the 'innovations' of one Chucky McScotchers, aka The Greatest Genius of All Time. If you like a lot of cursing, rage about stupidity, and general absurdity, you will dig it. Much more biting and abrasive than Dilbert, and necessarily so.

Now this style has been imitated (the clip art, the accompanying sarcastic quotes) but it was so fresh and of its time that it captured the essence of admin bullshit so so excellently. It's like a PowerPoint presentation on acid.

[Mark Reale · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is brilliant.

The humor is absurd, and the lo-fi comics seem to fit an underlying message of how in many conjured up business relationships, everything kind of blends together into some sort of routine blandness.

I find this book and the other ones similar to it (not sure if it is a series or not) to be incredibly inspiring.

I remember when I first came across it, it blew my mind that somebody could take the clip art graphics and turn them into a published work. But it happened. And it is great.

Realize that absurdity may not be everybody's cup of tea, but if it is highly recommend checking this out.

[Dan Ray · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was only $2. So that makes the joke worth the money. It's just bad clip art with some 8th grade jokes made by attaching speech bubbles and randomly cracking wise. The fighting technique book was pretty childishly funny, this sequel riffs on the same joke but in an office setting. Pretty funny, and super short. This is or was likely a web comic printed in book format.

[Miki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious book, especially if you've ever worked in a corporate atmosphere. The images are reminiscent of an office etiquette manual, and the dialogue and thought bubbles are filled with the crass stuff you wish you could say at work.

[Chummy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found this hilarious book in the $2 loser bin at Chapters! Now I love cheap books! It's a combination of crude and distorted cut-art and multi-line swearing that's probably as immature as it sounds, but is hilarious anyway!

[Jojo Bananas · Rating 3 out of 5]

That filing technique is no longer up to snuff.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you'd like a version of Office Space on crack and in print, this might be good for you. Pretty hilarious. I'd space it out a bit so the (intentional) monotony doesn't drag it down.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I laughed so hard I cried. Then I got stomach cramps, doubled over, kept laugh-crying, and finally fell out of my chair.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

this was one of the first books keith recommended to me at the strand.

[Amanda Baber · Rating 5 out of 5]

The shorter version is better. It is. Great, now a car alarm's going off. Probably because of what I said.

[Cody · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will never get rid of my copy of this comic. It is hilarious. I completely lose it on almost every page. I just love it so much. ;-;

[Lizzie]

A collection of the 2002 web comic. Bizarre, hilarious, I love it.

[Lisa Kleinert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why does the title call it "Fighting?", it is "my new filing technique is unstoppable". Like Dilbert, if it was made by Tim & Eric.

[Jacob · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although I didn't love it, I love that it exists.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best laughs I've ever had came from one of those pages.