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First Dog on the Moon’s Guide to Living Through the Impending Apocalypse and How to Stay Nice Doing It
Join beloved cartoonist First Dog On the Moon in this tender frolic through the looming collapse of civilisation and the demise of everything you ever cared about. Never have so many worked so hard to bring about the end of life as we know it, but what to wear? When Armageddon arrives, will it still be okay to walk around in your underpants?
Full of handy tips on what to pack, where to go and how to wave a cricket bat menacingly when interlopers try to steal the family pets that you were saving for dinner, this gentle book is fun for all the family.
If you don't buy it, you will probably be eaten by an enormous mutant Nazi tapeworm the size of a school bus. So when the ‘SHTF’, don't say we didn't warn you, and don't come to the First Dog on the Moon Institute bunker, because there isn’t one, it is a secret.
Full of handy tips on what to pack, where to go and how to wave a cricket bat menacingly when interlopers try to steal the family pets that you were saving for dinner, this gentle book is fun for all the family.
If you don't buy it, you will probably be eaten by an enormous mutant Nazi tapeworm the size of a school bus. So when the ‘SHTF’, don't say we didn't warn you, and don't come to the First Dog on the Moon Institute bunker, because there isn’t one, it is a secret.
192 pages, Paperback
First published November 16, 2017
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About the author
First Dog on the Moon
14 books18 followersFirst Dog on the Moon (Andrew Marlton) is a Cartoonist for The Guardian Australia, the best and most interesting news website/paper ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
He cartoons there most days holding the nation to account for its folly. First Dog on the Moon is a sneering elitist, and devilishly handsome.
He won a Walkley Award in 2012 and his stage show Cartoobs and other Typos won the Tour Ready Award at Melbourne Fringe in the same year. He was the MOAD Political Cartoonist of the year in 2011. He is making some TV and wrote two books.
He cartoons there most days holding the nation to account for its folly. First Dog on the Moon is a sneering elitist, and devilishly handsome.
He won a Walkley Award in 2012 and his stage show Cartoobs and other Typos won the Tour Ready Award at Melbourne Fringe in the same year. He was the MOAD Political Cartoonist of the year in 2011. He is making some TV and wrote two books.
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January 13, 2023
A charming, wise, funny book about how the end of the world isn't such a big deal, and your dog dying is such a big deal, and thinking about one might help you think about the other, and then maybe the world won't end after all. Or at least not immediately. It's a little hard to explain without rubbing off all the pixie dust.
I wish there were more things like this.
I wish there were more things like this.
January 30, 2018
I was going to quote the Insane Clown Posse's chorus to Apocalypse "Say goodbye to the world, The world as we know it", but then I remembered I'm too old to really know any of Insane Clown Posse's music, and it'd probably be more appropriate if I started off with "At first I was afraid, I was petrified... I will survive", but I'm starting to doubt the survival bit quite a lot. Even though I've been sensible enough to read First Dog on the Moon's super handy Guide to Living Through the Impending Apocalypse and How to Stay Nice Doing It".
Although, after the last few weeks of "typical summer weather" (as described mostly by people sat in their air-conditioning doing nothing more strenuous than driving a keyboard), and then the ongoing "rainfall deficiency" (see air-conditioned people / add weather commentators who have never left the confines of their Melbourne homes and offices) and I'm thinking the sodding Apocalypse is here and I've read this very useful and not at all expensive book way too late. (I'm sucking up in the hope that one day I'll get a signature on my copy. If we all survive of course....)
On the upside though I know what TEOTWAWKI and SHTF stand for (read the book yourselves), I've not got a bug-out bag, and I already live in the middle of nowhere so I'm ready. Or not. We're all late to the Apocalypse and the list of handy hints on what to do now (page 186) is well overdue (hint - I'm particularly interested in the final one - "Help find a way to slow/stop/ameliorate global warming our choice is between action or death I'm not even joking".) Really, if you're not on board with that concept then you know what you can do.
Why are you still here and not reading this book?
Although, after the last few weeks of "typical summer weather" (as described mostly by people sat in their air-conditioning doing nothing more strenuous than driving a keyboard), and then the ongoing "rainfall deficiency" (see air-conditioned people / add weather commentators who have never left the confines of their Melbourne homes and offices) and I'm thinking the sodding Apocalypse is here and I've read this very useful and not at all expensive book way too late. (I'm sucking up in the hope that one day I'll get a signature on my copy. If we all survive of course....)
On the upside though I know what TEOTWAWKI and SHTF stand for (read the book yourselves), I've not got a bug-out bag, and I already live in the middle of nowhere so I'm ready. Or not. We're all late to the Apocalypse and the list of handy hints on what to do now (page 186) is well overdue (hint - I'm particularly interested in the final one - "Help find a way to slow/stop/ameliorate global warming our choice is between action or death I'm not even joking".) Really, if you're not on board with that concept then you know what you can do.
Why are you still here and not reading this book?
January 6, 2018
First Dog is a living national treasure
June 12, 2018
Read this book.
I cannot rave enough about this. It is hilarious, depressing as fuck but also a bit hopeful. Also there is a rescue dog named Beyonce. You really must read this book.
I cannot rave enough about this. It is hilarious, depressing as fuck but also a bit hopeful. Also there is a rescue dog named Beyonce. You really must read this book.
March 22, 2020
4.5 stars
A really funny but at sometimes depressing book. Not only is it about preparing for the impending apocalypse (which seems to be approaching more quickly every day) but also about the world, Australia, every day life, politics and what we can do to make the world a better place. Also, if we don’t want to die due to climate change, nuclear etc., we should definitely change what we are doing.
A really funny but at sometimes depressing book. Not only is it about preparing for the impending apocalypse (which seems to be approaching more quickly every day) but also about the world, Australia, every day life, politics and what we can do to make the world a better place. Also, if we don’t want to die due to climate change, nuclear etc., we should definitely change what we are doing.
April 25, 2018
3.5
Just about as expected based on his cartoons - funny, sometimes depressing/infuriating (in so far as reality is depressing and infuriating), lots of run-on sentences and what punctuation.
Also, unexpectedly a communist manifesto at the end.
Just about as expected based on his cartoons - funny, sometimes depressing/infuriating (in so far as reality is depressing and infuriating), lots of run-on sentences and what punctuation.
Also, unexpectedly a communist manifesto at the end.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 23, 2018
Best call for making the world a better place I've read this year ( Happy 1st of January 😉). Time to go join my union and donate to my local refugee advicacy service.
January 12, 2018
Quite entertaining, this book is tragic & funny. I cried, I laughed, I especially enjoyed the two page spread of extinct animals.
June 9, 2018
Some of this book is tragically sad. But the rest of it is gloriously funny.
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