All My Friends Are Dead

All my friends... #1

by Avery Monsen, Jory John

All My Friends Are Dead  is both the saddest funny book and the funniest sad book you'll ever read.

This witty and captivating tale offers a delightful primer for laughing at the If you're a dinosaur, all your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all your friends are end tables. Showcasing the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie, each page of this illustrated humor book is laugh-out-loud funny. Simple yet effective comic-style imagery and short, hilarious quips come together to create an amusing adventure through a range of unique grievances and wide-eyed dilemmas, from the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you). Cute and dark all at once, this children's book for adults presents endlessly entertaining stories about life and existential predicaments.

TALENTED National bestseller All My Friends Are Dead and companion volume All My Friends Are Still Dead are written by Avery Monsen, an actor, artist, and writer and Jory John, a writer, editor, and journalist. They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet.

READERS LOVE With hundreds of five-star ratings, reviewers can't get enough of this book. One calls it "gloriously dark," and another says that "guests are drawn to it like a magnet."

EDITORIAL This uproarious book has garnered praise from several media outlets, including The Huffington Post : "Laugh out loud funny, and a tiny bit disturbing. In other words, perfect." and Paste "Finds humor in mortality."

Perfect

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Picture Books, Comics, Comedy, Childrens

96 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 2010

About the author

Avery Monsen is a writer, actor, and artist who lives in Los Angeles. He illustrated and co-authored the national bestseller, All My Friends Are Dead, as well as I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York and K is For Knifeball. He’s also written for the television shows, Billy On The Street and Trip Tank. His writing and drawings have been published in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Believer, and several newspapers around the country, and he was recently named one of the New Faces of Comedy at the 2017 Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. As an actor, he’s appeared on 30 Rock, The Tonight Show, High Maintenance, Maron, Adam Ruins Everything, and Alexa & Katie.

Reviews

[Federico DN · Rating 4 out of 5]

A meme got me to read this book. I don’t regret it.

One day like any other you are browsing the Internet when you see a Game of Thrones meme with a book on it. The magic is instant:
“I must read that.”

A tiny illustrated dark humor book. Funny, disturbing, perfect.



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PERSONAL NOTE :
[2010] [96p] [3.5] [Comedy] [Recommendable] [Perfectly Disturbing] [Dark Humor] [Cool Pictures] [Dangit]
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★★★★☆ All My Friends Are Dead [3.5]
★★★☆☆ All My Friends Are Still Dead [2.5]

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Un meme me hizo leer este libro. No me arrepiento.

Un día como cualquier otro estás navegando Internet cuando ves un meme de Juego de Tronos con un libro en él. La magia es intantánea:
“Tengo que leer eso.”

Un pequeño libro ilustrado de humor negro. Gracioso, perturbador, perfecto.



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NOTA PERSONAL :
[2010] [96p] [3.5] [Comedia] [Recomendable] [Perfectamente Perturbador] [Humor Negro] [Copados Dibujos] [Dangit]
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[karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

david sent me an awesome birthday box, and this book was inside, ready to make me laugh at the misfortunes of dinosaurs, snowmen, and cassette tapes.

oh, and also, me:



however, the really poignant thing about this book is that there was a small fire at the store on sunday, and the water from the putting out of the fire leaked down to the ground floor, onto the table where this book was featured. so guess what?? all this book's friends are indeed dead - drowned and waterlogged and swollen with nasty cindered firewater.

so thanks for all the birthday cheer, and when you see this book on a table somewhere, take a moment to read through it and laugh at the misfortunes of others, and pour out a little of your OE for all the book's dead homies.

(why are you drinking malt liquor in a bookstore, you degenerate?? go home!!)

come to my blog!

[Adina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am known to have a sense of humor, especially a dark one, so this book should have been up my alley. Unfortunately, I did not find it funny, with a few small exceptions. Moreover, it was embarrassingly short, it took me less than 3 minutes to finish it. I read it through my Scribd subscription, otherwise I wouldn't have paid anything for it. I wouldn't gift it to anyone else either, it is creepy and not funny. I am in the minority here so maybe I wasn't in the right mood, who knows, maybe my humor is dead.

[Nayra.Hassan · Rating 4 out of 5]

الإنسان هو المخلوق الوحيد الذي يكذب
مارك توين
كل اصدقائي ماتوا: اسم كتيب يحمل مجموعة من الكوميكس الذكية ملونة مرحة؛عن كل ما هو منقرض او سينقرض او سيضيع بسببنا حصريا
https://imgur.com/a/E3ceW1g

. . عن مترافقات؛ مفقودات ؛مفقودين؛  مهن؛
حيوانات طيور؛ نباتات باكية

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كتيب يذكرك ان
أعلى مراتب الإنسانية  هي*
*الرأفة بالحيوان والإمتنان للأشياء

ملحوظة بسبب عطل الصور على الجوودريدز لن تفتح.. معك الا في التطبيق للاسف

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book tonight. It took me 5 minutes. It was hilarious! 5 minutes well spent!

This one has to be my favorite:

[Annet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Came across this little book in City Lights bookstore in San Fran. My eye caught several people browsing through this little cartoonisty book looking like a kids book and seeing all the people grinning, chuckling... I picked it up and found myself laughing too. It's not for kids, it's sort of tragi comic, about the passing of things, but pretty damn funny, cute. The tree and the end table story is LOL funny, the meaning of having many Facebook friends sharply observed... I am gonna put this booklet on my meeting table at work, share this I have to...in line to pay there was a lady in front of me who bought three of this booklet, and laughed doing it. Definitely a good present for friends.

[صان · Rating 4 out of 5]

یه کتاب خیلی کوتاه نقاشی‌دار و بامزه!
توی لایب‌جن می‌تونید پیداش کنید.

یه طنز بزرگونه و سیاه و منطقی‌ای داره :)))

[Carol]

One of the greatest joys of GoodReads is stumbling on a book due to a friends review. Though humor is subjective and there isn't really much I can say about All My Friends Are Dead other than it is hysterical, I owe my laughter to Matthew. This was my favorite though I loved them all and really liked how the whole book came together. Simple, fast and fun.

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sure to put a smile on your face if you are over 50! A way of accepting that there is no permanence to hold us tight; things change - sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. All we can do is try to remember that a day that you can find something to smile about is a day that is not all that bad.

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

World’s shortest read, my shortest review. This is a super entertaining picture book for adults. Each page contains a picture with one short sentence, just like in a kid’s book. It reminded me a comedian’s deadpan one-liners, except with the added fun of having them illustrated right in front of you. Super clever and surprisingly profound, it shows you how everyone and everything (like socks and cassette tapes) have it tough. Who knew I’d find myself sympathizing with inanimate objects, lol?

You can read this little gem in about 5 minutes, and it’s worth the time. I bought it on Kindle for just $1.99, seriously wondering whether I’d be able to see the pictures and text clearly. The answer is yes. It probably would have been more fun to have read it in hardback (with color and nice shiny pages), but it’s pretty cool that it works on an e-reader.

(Thanks, Betsy, for your great little review that told me about this book!)

[emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book, which is roughly the size of a coaster and which i bought many years ago in the gift section of my hometown target (not to be confused with the, you know, book section), is funny and good.

and i stand by that.

even though i have not read it since.

part of my ever-ill-advised reviewing-books-i-read-a-long-time-ago series

[D. Pow · Rating 4 out of 5]

The vagaries of the reading life are a funny thing. Sometimes you’ll blow a big wad of cash for a hardback and the thing will suck raw eggs. Sometimes you pay a buck or less at some Library book sale or garage sale and discover an absolute treasure that stays with you for the rest of your days(My favorite example is The Collected Poems of Philip Levine, a just a criminal inversion of cost vs. worth-which I paid a buck for over 15 years ago and have read with great joy over and over again). A variance on this is the books you don’t even pay for, that you just pick up and leaf through at a store.

All my friends are Dead is an example of this. I stumbled across this while I was weighing the relative merits of some heavier tomes on the display table at my local B&N.

The cover shows some dopey cartoon dinosaur along with the title. I thought maybe it was some charming kiddie tale of some resurrected dinosaur coming back to life in the 21st century and being all alienated and mopey and suffused with ennui because all his dino posse from the before times have been dead and morphed into fossil fuel these many years.

But that’s not the deal here or the whole deal. It does feature a dinosaur trying to grok the message of death as a comet hurtles towards him. But it also features many other funny and forlorn characters wrestling with that biggest of all philosophical stumbling blocks.

There is some beatnik looking oldster who is lamenting his passing days, there is a tree talking about his friends all being end tables and there is a tube sock fiercely missing his only friend. Funny shit. I stood and read the whole book, not long, but I stayed to the end. The only happy person in the whole book? The Grim Reaper himself, whose caption read “Man, this job makes me feel alive!”. Boy, I laughed at that one.

So, laughter, real smiles. A cute book and a little poignant too. Is there anything more noble, more foolishly brave and human, than laughing in the face of death? It’s a sad fact of my reading life that this little cartoon book had more to say, and said it with more grace and panache than many huge tomes I’ve picked up over the years. The vagaries of the reading life…

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ahahahaha. This five-minute read is hilarious. Immediately upon finishing I went back through it and it was even funnier. I won't log rereads of it; there will be many. It's spare with minimal text and simple drawings, so even though they're not alike, the sensibility is a bit Gorey. Love this little gem and have already bought the sequel. Laughing as I write this. More, please.

[Manny · Rating 3 out of 5]

All my friends are dead keen on reading short books with easy words and a lot of pictures, except for people I know on Goodreads and a few living fossils.

[Jess | thegreeneyedreader · Rating 5 out of 5]

All My Friends are Dead!

This book is awesome. Very quick, fun, and dark book! Highly recommend! I want to buy the physical book to and give it as a gift!

[Ladan · Rating 3 out of 5]

All my friends are books! ;)

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

FUNNY!!!

[Sr3yas · Rating 4 out of 5]

An amusing Picture book where various odd characters talk about their friends in witty one-liners.


It's so simple! I think I can make my own versions about this, minus the illustrations of course.

All my friends are Imaginary.
Ummm... Should we be concerned about Sreyas?

No, Wait. Scratch that. I am not making my own version.


Did he sell his friends? Or did he eat them?! What's happening here?!

[Mischenko · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and quick picture story. I think my favorite is the fly. Hilarious!

[Forrest · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughter asked for this for her 21st birthday. Of course, I peeked . . . okay, I'm lying, I read the entire thing in about 10 minutes. This is, in essence, a book for existential children . . . or child existentialists . . . or cynical adults who don't like to read but like grim humor in the form of a children's book. If Sartre had had children (did he? I don't know, but I suspect not), he would have read this to them at bedtime every night. Because any night could be your last . . .

PS: I liked the glue entry the best. Yes, there's really a glue entry . . . and it's funny . . . and morbid . . . just go read it!

[Cookie M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Total silliness in terribly bad taste.

My son gave it to me for Christmas the year after my husband died. It was his ham fisted way of telling me he understood my grief, but he wanted his crazy mom back.

He got his crazy mom back.

I guess you have to know the relationship I have with Ridley to understand the depth of love in this whole interaction.

A little autism goes a long way.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't really like this... yikes. I promise, I do have a sense of humour... I just didn't find it funny and I didn't really get the big hype. It wasn't for me so I wouldn't recommend it.

[Kon R. · Rating 2 out of 5]

That title and cover combo was begging for me to read it. So I did. The best thing about this is the cover and the title. I half chuckled over 1 page. This book was simply not for me.

[Mohammed Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

عن الاستغلال المفرط، عن الجشع، عن المادية، عن الوحدة، عن الفقد، عن الصداقات الضائعة، التائهة، عن الأصدقاء الذين ماتوا.. عن الإنسان نتحدث.

إنسان عصرنا كائن أناني جدا، لم يعد يهتم بشيء آخر سوى نفسه وإغراءاتها ومطالبها المتزايدة، الخارجة عن السيطرة، والفاقدة للمعنى.. إننا نسرع بنا نحو الهاوية مدمرين كل شيء في طريقنا.

عن أنين النباتات الذابلة، عن حنين الأشجار المقطوعة، عن صراخ الحيوانات المرعوبة، عن انقراض الأنواع النادرة، عن البيئة التي ماتت.. عن الطبيعة نتحدث.

كيف سيكون حالنا لو استمرينا بهذه الطريقة؟ كيف ستكون أرضنا التي لا نعرف غيرها كأم حنون؟

أحببت الرسومات والألوان.

[Petergiaquinta · Rating 5 out of 5]

I know, I know...only one measly star to classics like A Farewell to Arms, The Bell Jar, and A Separate Peace, and just three stars to The Waste Land?

And now this?!?

Don't try and shame me. I feel bad enough about it already.



Some times I think I'd like to live forever...


But just look at this sad dinosaur...all his friends are dead.
And no one even calls him a "Brontosaurus" anymore.


And what about this old guy?

Maybe he reminds you of the old poet of Sonnet 30 who laments
"precious friends hid in death's dateless night"?


And now maybe the ancient man of the Pardoner's Tale?




Hamlet sure felt like this guy.



And then he felt like this guy.






Oops, look who wins again!

Sigh...

[Dannii Elle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this in about 10 minutes total and CACKLED at every single page. If you love dark humour then give this a read!

[sAmAnE · Rating 5 out of 5]

ما برای نجات پیدا کردن فقط به یک چیز احتیاج دارم: دوستی!

[Nandakishore Mridula · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am in a bit of a reading slump - and I have found that there is nothing to bring one out of it than reading a graphic novel. Well, this book and its sequel are not actually graphic novels: rather books of black humour disguised as children's books. Very tongue in cheek - and some of the jokes are sailing pretty close to the wind, especially in the sequel, with its suggestion of necrophilia.

The theme is death, loneliness and cruelty. The running theme is one character talking about how all their friends have passed beyond the veil, and how he/ she is the only one left. The twist is brought about by the way this morbid idea is presented: for example, a tree saying how all his friends are end tables, or a pig saying how all her friends are bacon; and the bacon and the end tables actually replying. It's funny in an extremely dark way if you don't mind that sort of thing.

However, the jokes about the necrophiliac mortician may trigger some people. So look up these two books only if you have the same twisted soul that I have.

[سماح عطية · Rating 2 out of 5]

مأساة أوصلتنا لها حياة الوهم التي تسمى عالم افتراضي!

#ملاحظة
تلك التغريدة هي التي جعلتني أقرأ الكتاب

[Cynnamon · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son gave me this litte book for mother's day and I felt tremendously amused by the pictures and the black humor behind it.