Grandpa Won’t Wake Up by Simon Max Hill & Shannon Wheeler

Grandpa Won’t Wake Up
by Simon Max Hill & Shannon Wheeler
Boom! Town, 2011

Definitely not for anyone who’s suffered a loss in the family recently. Hill and Wheeler (in much better form than Oil and Water) take a big exuberant piss all over Dr. Seuss, and hilarity ensues. It’s not until the child narrators of this rhyming picture book dress their (apparently slumbering) grandpa in a swastika thong that you begin to feel as though some sort of line has been crossed, but then they summon a lesser Cthulhu demon and put a horse in a gimp mask, so the thong is forgotten.

It’s packaged as a Little Golden Book parody, and at the back there’s a list of other books in the series, including But I Poop From There!, The Haunted Dildo and The Racist Eggplant. Please let these titles never exist.