Humour Books by a Guy Who Accidentally Has a Lot of Them

July 2, 2026

I didn't set out to do this. I didn't set out to write anything, really. I made one weird picture book as a joke and people bought it and now I've made like sixty of them. That's just my life now. I've accepted this.

There are people who do this on purpose. David Sedaris has a whole career. Terry Pratchett built entire worlds out of footnotes and philosophy. Douglas Adams made a trilogy that's actually five books because he could do whatever he wanted. These are serious funny people with talent and craft and publishers and agents and actual plans.

I am not those people.

I made a book about crabs and it took off. Different path.

What I Am Instead

I'm a guy in Toronto who noticed that "picture book about crabs" was an underserved market. I make humour books the way some people make muffins... because it's Tuesday and you need something to do with your hands.

The books look like they're for kids. They are emphatically not for kids. That's the whole thing. You hand someone Moe Lester and watch their face travel through about six different emotions in four seconds. That transition is the experience I'm selling. Not the object. The face.

Rumpleforeskin is a fairy tale. Kind of. It's a fairy tale the same way gas is technically a food ingredient. Technically in the same category. Completely different results.

Girl Math is a book that has been bought almost exclusively by women who wanted to give it to other women. I do not understand the social dynamics at play. I just made the thing. It's fine. It ships.

Doug the Carpet Munching Pug is about a dog named Doug who has a hobby. The cover is adorable. Doug seems happy. What Doug is doing is between Doug and the carpet.

These Are Not Serious Humour Books

Sedaris writes about his family and you feel things. Pratchett had footnotes that were funnier than most people's entire books. Adams made you think without noticing you were thinking.

My humour books have titles like Diddler On The Roof. The strategy is a little different.

I'm the discount bin version of a humour author. I know that. I've made my peace with it. I'm the thing you grab because the cover is bright and you need something for your brother-in-law who already has everything. You hand it to him. He laughs for thirty seconds. Somebody takes a photo and puts it on Instagram. I get an order notification at 2am. That's the business model.

Happy Birthday: Nobody Cares has been used as an actual birthday card. Multiple times. By people who thought it was the most honest option available. Those people are my customers and I genuinely love them.

I'm Offended got sent to a coworker by someone who described it as "diplomatic." It is not diplomatic. But context is everything and I try not to judge.

I've been doing this long enough now that I genuinely have a pile of these things. They live in my garage until someone orders one. I sign each copy and pack it myself. It's a glamorous operation.

But they make people laugh. Real laughs, not polite ones. The kind where you have to show someone else in the room because you need a witness.

That's enough for me. I'm not trying to be in the same sentence as the greats. I'm trying to be on the same shelf as the greats where I'll look completely out of place and that is very funny to me.

I put out one or two humour books a month. Every single one gets signed. Every single one ships from my house in Toronto. I have a TikTok following of over a million people and I still find it weird that any of this is real.

But here we are. You're reading a blog post I wrote about my own humour books. I'm going to go sign some copies now.