Blobheads

This riotous collection is made up of three separate blobby books first published in 2000 but now appearing in one volume. Emerging one day from a bathroom toilet, the Blobheads are under the impression that Billy Barnes’s one-year-old brother Silas is none other than the Most High Emperor of the Universe – an impression that his various well-filled nappies does nothing to shift. This is because the Blobheads are highly inefficient, with everything they touch quickly turning into the sort of chaos which usually ends with everyone crying out ‘Waaaah!’ Jokes about Billy’s father’s advanced cookery course mingle with cruder efforts involving snot, vomit and other juvenile comic stand-bys. Beautifully illustrated by Riddell, these endlessly inventive stories include toasters talking amorously to kettles and giant cockroaches the size of elephants. For those who can stand the pace, they make extremely lively reading.