‘Full of unexpected laughs; at once both absurd and sincere.’
SOPHIE YANOW, author of The Contradictions

‘A joy to read.‘
RAFEL FRUMKIN, author of Confidence

The funniest, most moving and expansive graphic novel yet from the acclaimed author of The Con Artists and Americana.

‘Who is Luke Healy?’

For over ten years, a graphic novelist called Luke Healy has invested all of his self-esteem into his career. Then, almost overnight, just as his brother is getting married, both seem to vanish.

Spiralling and lacking purpose, he searches for identity – in self-help books, replacement jobs and human connection – and visits cheesy British hotels and abandoned Greek islands.

Set against the backdrop of a dangerously changing global climate, with melting ice-caps and flooding cities, Self-Esteem and the End of the World spans two decades of tragicomic self-discovery until the unlikely prospect of a Hollywood revival of Luke’s work comes into view – but what might be the cost?

‘One of the finest cartoonists working today.’ James Sturm

‘I loved it- it’s quiet and funny and anxious, most of all it’s dreadfully human. Really great.’ EVIE WYLD

‘Joy, terror, good jokes, bad decisions, mystery moustaches – this book has them all, and more!’ JOFF WINTERHART

‘It is amazing. Really just perfect comic writing, in both senses.’ STEPHEN COLLINS

Love, friendship, fraud and the stories we tell…

Frank only wanted three things this year- to perform stand-up comedy, go to therapy, and to keep his house plants alive.

Then Giorgio got hit by a bus.

As Frank moves in with Giorgio to help him recover, he begins to suspect that the perfect life Giorgio has been sharing online may be nothing more than a web of lies and scams. Finding himself unable to break free from his friend’s complicated life, has Frank become Giorgio’s unwitting accomplice?