https://bradgosse.com Brad Gosse Google Shopping Feed 44460098814255 Warning: If you're easily offended, congratulations—you've found your final boss. 14 of the Most Terrible Children's Books Ever Written is the literary equivalent of lighting a dumpster on fire and roasting marshmallows over it. Brad Gosse returns with another unapologetic abomination of a collection that somehow manages to be even more inappropriate than the last. These are not books for children. Hell, they’re barely books for adults. But they’re perfect for those twisted souls who collect dark humor like it’s a competitive sport. This isn’t just a gag gift. It’s the kind of joke book that turns Secret Santa into a blood sport and ensures your white elephant exchange ends in either applause or restraining orders. Perfect for coffee tables you don’t want people touching, bathrooms where the reading gets weird, or gift-giving scenarios where you want to traumatize someone in the most memorable way possible. Here’s what’s inside this train wreck of a collection: Dead Babies 2: A Series of Short Life Stories Cinnamon: A Horse Forced into the Sex Trade Murder Hornets: From Asian Invasion to Overrated Sensation OK Boomer: Mom’s OnlyFans: New Beginnings From Difficult Choices Self Isolation Camp CoronaVirus Your Life is a Lie STD’s & You: Why Mommy Hits Daddy: A Kid’s Guide to Understanding Alcohol Candy Van: Strangers Come in More Flavors Than You Think Oub’s Baby: The Only Child Your Step-Dad Loves Candy Man Van Daddy’s a Simp: Don’t Expect Much Inheritance This outrageous collection of novelty stories is not for the faint of heart—but it is for your weirdest friend, your darkest relative, or yourself (if you’re dead inside and proud of it). 14 of the Most Terrible Children's Books Ever Written: the gag gift that dares you to give it without laughing—or getting slapped. https://bradgosse.com/products/14-of-the-most-terrible-childrens-books-ever-written-part-2-signed-copy?variant=44460098814255 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08LJV1QKX.png?v=1675972050&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 99.00 USD 9798550554609 B08LJV1QKX 543543 44460098978095 14 of the Most Terrible Children's Books Ever Written: Part 3: The One Where We Stopped Even PretendingBy volume three you would think Brad Gosse had run out of bad ideas. He has not. This compendium collects fourteen of his most requested adult parody books into one volume, illustrated in the same cheerful cartoon style as the previous two, applied here to subject matter that previous editors at previous publishing houses would have quietly walked out of the room over. Inside: Camel Tony, Dad's a Cuck, Dead Babies 3, Furious George, Help Me Step Bro, Mom's Tinder Profile, My Homophobic Dad, Race Wars, Sex Offenders, Sex Toy Story, The Cat That Shat, Thirst Traps, When Parents Go to Jail, and Your Life Is a Lie. These are real titles. We did not make any of this up. Brad did.This is the third compendium, which means this is now a franchise, which means at some point we all collectively decided this was fine. It is not fine. It exists anyway. Every book inside uses the same trick as the first two volumes, innocent cartoon art delivering content that is anything but, except this time the gloves are fully off and several specific institutions are going to have opinions about that.This Book Is For You If...You bought volumes one and two and are already disappointed in yourself, so why stop nowYou believe nothing should be off limits if it is funny enough to justify the discomfortYou want fourteen books worth of material that will get this listing flagged eventuallyYou already read a few of these titles twice just to make sure you read them correctlyYou are the friend who always pushes things one step further than everyone is comfortable withThis Book Is NOT For You If...You read the title Race Wars and felt your jaw physically tightenYou believe satire has limits and you have strong, specific, well-documented opinions on whereYou work somewhere that monitors your Amazon purchase history for some reasonYou are still recovering emotionally from volumes one or two of this exact seriesYou plan to buy this, read three pages, and immediately write a strongly worded reviewPerfect Occasions for This BookThe one friend group with absolutely no remaining boundaries and no plans to set anyWhite elephant exchanges where you have decided this is the year you finally winA gift for someone who has read everything else and needs something that goes furtherCollectors completing the full trilogy because apparently that is a thing people do nowYour own shelf, because you already know exactly what you are buying and whyLook, Just Buy the Stupid BookSame price as a greeting card. Vastly more content. Vastly more consequences. This book gets handed around a room and the room gets quieter and then significantly louder. Someone will read a title aloud, pause, and decide whether to keep going. They will keep going. Fourteen books means fourteen separate opportunities for that exact moment to happen again.Brad Gosse has now done this three times. There is no version of events where he stops here. This compendium exists because the first two sold, which is either an indictment of the market or simply how books work. Buy it, give it to someone who has earned it, and let Brad keep doing whatever this is. He clearly is not going to stop on his own. https://bradgosse.com/products/14-of-the-most-terrible-childrens-books-ever-written-part-3-signed-copy?variant=44460098978095 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B094989996.png?v=1675972053&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 99.00 USD 9798748757898 B094989996 543543 44460099404079 14 of the Most Terrible 5: The Volume That Finally Made Someone's Lawyer Make a CallFive volumes in. At this point Brad Gosse is not stumbling into controversy, he is commuting there. This collection pulls together fourteen of his darkest adult parody titles in one illustrated volume that will make you question several things about yourself in rapid succession. Inside: 18 Ways to Tell Kids Their Parents Died, Buster the Perverted Ghost, Candi's Nuts, Clip Clop the Racist Horse Cop, Gluck Gluck 9000, Ice Cream Man Goes Pee in the Back of His Truck, Mike Hunt Smells Like Fish, Mom Runs Trains on the Weekend with Dad's Friends, My Racist Dog Only Trusts Whites, Slappy Will, Star Whores Sex Workers Across the Galaxy, Sweat Shop Kids Make Everything You Own, There Is No Farm, and Why Daddy Hits Mommy. We need a moment after typing that. We are fine. We are moving on.Volume five is where the series stops pulling any punches it may have previously been pulling. There Is No Farm is a guide to explaining euthanasia. Star Whores goes to space. Gluck Gluck 9000 is exactly what it sounds like and we will not be providing clarification. Every page is illustrated in bright cheerful colors that absolutely do not belong anywhere near these topics and that is entirely the point. Brad has been doing this for five volumes now. The art keeps getting better. The subject matter keeps getting worse. This is the deal.This Book Is For You If...You read Gluck Gluck 9000 and your first reaction was recognition rather than confusionYou believe dark humor is a legitimate coping mechanism and you have tested that theory personallyYou have completed volumes one through four and feel that this is simply what you do nowYou want a gift that communicates something specific about your relationship with the recipientYou are Star Whores curious and this seems like the most efficient way to find outThis Book Is NOT For You If...You are still processing There Is No Farm on an emotional level and need more timeYou thought volume four was too far and somehow you are still here reading volume five copyYou work in education, law enforcement, veterinary care, or ice cream vendingYou have children who read over your shoulder and ask questions about everythingYou are the kind of person who reports things and feels good about it afterwardPerfect Occasions for This BookAdults who have had a genuinely terrible year and need to laugh at something worseWhite elephant exchanges among people who have known each other long enough to survive thisA gift for the person in your life who thought nothing could surprise them anymoreAnyone completing the full five-volume set for reasons they do not need to explainYour own bookshelf, because at this point you know exactly who you areLook, Just Buy the Stupid BookFourteen books. Full color illustrations. Costs about the same as a greeting card that nobody keeps. This volume generates longer silences than the previous four because the titles require a beat to fully land. Someone will read Clip Clop the Racist Horse Cop out loud and the room will need a second. That second is worth the price of admission by itself.Five volumes of this exist now. Brad Gosse has written more books in this format than most authors write in any format, which is either impressive or a warning sign and possibly both. Buy volume five. Complete the set. Tell nobody how you found this listing. Let Brad handle the consequences. He always does. https://bradgosse.com/products/14-of-the-most-terrible-childrens-books-ever-written-part-5-signed-copy?variant=44460099404079 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0BGNGZM8S.png?v=1675972060&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 99.00 USD 9798355004187 B0BGNGZM8S 543543 51164876734767 Warning: Side effects may include wheezing laughter, instant regret, and unexpected disinheritance. Welcome to 14 of the Most Terrible Children's Books 6—a soul-curdling compilation of Brad Gosse's latest literary crimes against common decency. This is volume six, which means you've either survived the first five or you're brand new to this psychological carnival of inappropriate humor wrapped in innocent-looking illustrations. Inside, you’ll find 14 painfully stupid, brutally funny, and undeniably terrible “children’s books” including “Becky the Throat Goat,” “Mike Huck,” “Uncle Jeff’s Island,” and the freshly inducted “Dad’s Pussy Magnet.” No, you can’t unread that. And yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. Perfect for gag gift collectors, white elephant saboteurs, or that one friend who laughs at funerals, this book is guaranteed to raise eyebrows, ruin friendships, and become the most talked-about thing in your bathroom. Just don’t actually read it to a child unless you're prepared to explain 14 separate lawsuits. 14 of the Most Terrible Children’s Books 6—because humanity’s already circling the drain. Might as well giggle on the way down.Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links.United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/14-of-the-most-terrible-childrens-books-ever-written-part-6-signed-copy?variant=51164876734767 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/5843cad5998d0fce482bcc98d3b3e2b0.png?v=1743770620&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 99.00 USD B0F3JPVBYG 543543 51166987026735 Brad Gosse is back and worse than ever with Part 7 of his unholy children’s book saga—because clearly, no one learned their lesson the first six times. Weighing in at a soul-crushing 320+ pages, this is less a joke book and more a psychological weapon disguised as bedtime stories.Children’s Books 7 compiles 14 never-should've-been-written titles into one chaotic collection of gag gift greatness. Perfect for dark humor lovers, white elephant destroyers, and people who know better but do it anyway.Included in this beautiful monstrosity:Drunk Dad: Shows Up to Every Game – the bleacher legend who’s more beer than man.Your Mom is Sharyn Cox – a touching story of paternity tests and playground bullying.Cuckolding: With Jack and Jill – nursery rhymes reimagined through the lens of open marriages and public shame.That Guy Jack Innitt – he’s lonely, misunderstood, and spends way too much time in the bathroom.Diddler On The Roof – if musicals make you uncomfortable, wait till this one starts singing.Mike Hunt 2: Getting Stuffed – he’s back and bringing side dishes nobody asked for.Sugar Babies: Dad’s Secret Friends – a sweet tale of transactions, secrets, and daddy’s disappearing paycheck.Ray Ping: The Chinese Miner – a historical deep cut that digs straight into uncomfortable laughter.Short Kings: Need Love Too – not all heroes wear lifts, but some definitely should.Humpy The Pig: Gets an STI – the cautionary tale the petting zoo refused to publish.Baby in a Hot Car – the feel-bad thriller of the year with all the windows rolled up.Ratchet Pussy – nine lives, no shame, and a questionable OnlyPaws account.Mike Hawke Gets Hard – P.E. class will never be the same.Sketchy Joe Has Too Many Brides – one man, one cult, and zero background checks.This twisted collection of joke books is a gold mine for collectors of gag gifts, novelty books, and dark humor disasters. Whether you're shopping for the office white elephant, looking to get uninvited from the next family gathering, or just love watching society crumble one page at a time—this book is for you.Buy now and give the gift of confusion, discomfort, and uncontrollable laughter. Just don’t read it to your kids unless you're raising future stand-up comics or emotional support clowns.Free worldwide shipping!Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. 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And then the punchlines hit and your coffee shoots out your nose. Consider this a picture book for people who’ve paid taxes, made mistakes, and now cope by laughing louder than their problems. Each mini-book is written in sing-songy rhyme and illustrated like something you’d read to a first grader… if that first grader had a mortgage and a high tolerance for dark humor. It’s candy-colored satire: cheerful drawings, brutally honest jokes. No sappy morals. No tidy life lessons. Just the relief of a solid, ugly laugh you didn’t have to earn by being a better person. What you’re actually buying: not prestige, not enlightenment, and definitely not class. You’re buying the experience of cracking this open, reading three pages in a fake bedtime voice, and watching your friends wheeze, groan, and say “I’m going to hell” between snorts. It’s a coffee-table booby trap, a bathroom library upgrade, a break-glass-in-case-of-Monday emergency chuckle kit. Inside the mayhem: fourteen self-contained parodies that poke at holidays, awkward relationships, grown-up regrets, office politics, and everyday disasters. The jokes swing between savage and silly, landing somewhere between “that’s wrong” and “I needed that.” The art is bright and friendly; the humor is… not. That contrast is the joke. That’s why it works. That, and the fact that none of us are okay. Fine print the lawyer begged for: This is for adults. It’s satire. It contains spicy language and gleefully poor judgment. If you’re easily offended, please gift it to someone who isn’t and enjoy the quiet. Who will love this beautiful mistake Your most chaotic friend who laughs first and apologizes later. Stand-up comedy fans who want jokes they can hold in their hands. The coworker who runs the office meme channel and HR’s blood pressure. Siblings who weaponize gifts as a competitive sport. New parents who need a bedtime story that tells the truth for once. Anyone whose decorating style is “conversation piece that starts a small fire.” Occasions that beg for the wrong book Birthdays (especially milestone ones where denial has stopped working). White Elephant and Secret Santa exchanges you’d rather win than survive. Housewarmings, engagements, breakups, makeups, and strategic petty gestures. Bachelor or bachelorette parties, retirements, promotions, and “congrats on your new therapist.” Holidays, because nothing brings a family together like tasteful chaos. Why this compendium, not twelve other bad decisions? 14-in-1: A full season of laughs in one book. Flip to any story and get a complete hit of nonsense.300 pages of illustrated mischief: Bright, clean artwork in classic picture-book style, built for dramatic readings.Read it wrong, laugh right: Works best aloud in a soothing storyteller voice while your audience reconsiders knowing you.Zero homework: No continuity, no rules, no moral improvement required. Let’s be honest. You’re not buying literature. You’re buying an excuse to feel better for five minutes at a time. You’re buying a book that turns awkward silences into audible wheezes, a prop for your laziest party trick, a reliable pressure-release valve for days when every email feels like a trap. It won’t fix your life. It will make it more bearable, and sometimes that’s the only adulting that matters. Suggested use cases: leave it on the coffee table and watch your guests incriminate themselves; stash it in the bathroom and create a line; read it at campfires between ghost stories and oversharing; keep it on your desk for emergency sarcasm breaks; wrap it for your friend who “doesn’t want anything” and then cackles for 20 minutes. Is it for everyone? No. That’s the point. But if your sense of humor is house-trained yet feral, this belongs on your shelf. If you’ve ever laughed at a situation you absolutely shouldn’t have, welcome home. If you want a book that behaves, look elsewhere. If you want a book that misbehaves while wearing a smile, you’ve found your new favorite bad influence. Add this reckless, ridiculous anthology to your cart and treat yourself or that beautifully unhinged friend to the simple luxury of a loud, cathartic laugh disguised as a children’s book. Because being a grown-up is hard. Laughing at it shouldn’t be. https://bradgosse.com/products/14-of-the-most-terrible-childrens-books-ever-written-part-8-signed-copy?variant=51837552099631 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/187fbef574d40d6e7c88f4911aec0b87.png?v=1757012289&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 99.00 USD B0FPRQN63F 543543 44460098715951 14 of the Most Terrible Children's Books: Another Adult Parody Compendium That Should Not ExistThis is the dark cousin of the other compendium. Where the first collection leaned into innuendo, this one leans into subject matter that most publishers would not touch with a ten foot pole and a lawyer present. Over 200 pages, fourteen complete books, illustrated in the cheerful visual style of children's picture books and dealing with topics that picture books generally avoid. Inside: Baa Baa Black Sheep, Conjoined Twins, Coronavirus and Friends, Creepy Creatures, Daddy Daughter Date Night, Dead Babies, Donkeybear, Don't Bathe With Uncle Joe, Meet the Hipsters, How Daddy Got an STD, Insomniac and Friends, Meet the Karens, My Racist Gran, and Mommy Got a DUI. We are simply listing the titles. We are not elaborating further.This is dark satire wearing a children's book costume, and it knows exactly what it is doing. Every topic here is treated with the same chipper cartoon energy as a book about sharing or counting to ten, which is precisely the joke and precisely the problem. Brad Gosse wrote fourteen of these because apparently one was never going to be enough. They are collected here in a single volume so you only have to make one regrettable purchase instead of fourteen separate ones.This Book Is For You If...You have a pitch black sense of humor and have made peace with what that says about youYou believe a topic being uncomfortable does not automatically mean it cannot be funnyYou want over 200 pages of satire that takes zero hostages and offers zero apologiesYou already laughed at one of these titles before reading the description and you know itYou collect things that other people specifically ask you to put away before guests arriveThis Book Is NOT For You If...You are currently grieving, recovering, or in any state where dark satire will not land wellYou believe certain topics should never appear near a cartoon illustration under any circumstancesYou are the designated keeper of community standards in your friend group or your officeYou read even one of these titles and felt your blood pressure rise noticeablyYou are buying this for someone without knowing their sense of humor extremely well firstPerfect Occasions for This BookThe friend group where nothing is off limits and everyone signed an unofficial agreement about itWhite elephant exchanges among people who already know exactly what they are getting intoA gift for the one person who will actually read all 200 plus pages cover to coverAnyone who collects deliberately uncomfortable satire as a hobby and is not ashamed of itYour own bookshelf, displayed face out, daring anyone to ask you about itLook, Just Buy the Stupid BookThis costs about the same as a greeting card that gets read once and thrown away. This book gets opened, someone reads a title out loud, the room goes quiet, and then it does not stay quiet for long. Over 200 pages means there is always another terrible title waiting to be discovered by whoever picks this up next at your next gathering.This is not for everyone. We are aware. That is genuinely the entire point of the exercise. Brad Gosse wrote fourteen books that needed warning labels and bundled them into one purchase decision. If you have read this far and are still here, you already know whether this belongs on your shelf. Buy the book. Own the decision. Brad already has. https://bradgosse.com/products/14-of-the-most-terrible-childrens-books-ever-written-signed-copy?variant=44460098715951 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HGTSXV8.png?v=1675972046&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 99.00 USD 9798682576838 B08HGTSXV8 543543 44460099273007 14 of the Most Terrible 4: We Have Clearly Stopped Trying to StopVolume four exists, which tells you everything you need to know about how the first three performed and absolutely nothing you wanted to know about Brad Gosse's decision-making process. Fourteen more adult parody books, illustrated in the same disarmingly cheerful cartoon style as every previous volume, applied here to subject matter that gets more specific and more uncomfortable with every passing entry. Inside: Child Services, Cinnamon Visits Glue Factory, Cucumber Curtis Can't Come to Dinner, Why Grandpa Sleeps in the Garage, Humpty Dumpty Discovers Workplace Misconduct, Kluckee the Plant Based Chicken, Mixed Animals, Mom Plus Dad Plus Chad Your Parents Have Formed a Triad, Rich Kids They're Better Than You, Santa's Lil Humper Saves Christmas, Sick Pets, Sofa King, Uncle Bob Can't Wait to Show Me His Knob, and We're Not Camping Mom and Dad Lied We're Homeless. Again, these are real titles. Again, we are simply listing them.Four volumes in and the formula has not changed because the formula was never the problem. It is the titles that keep escalating. Brad Gosse appears to be working through some kind of list, and we are no longer in a position to ask what is on it. This is innocent picture book art doing increasingly heavy lifting for increasingly specific content, and somehow it still works.This Book Is For You If...You own the first three volumes and have stopped questioning why you keep buying theseYou read the title Sofa King out loud just now and immediately understood the assignmentYou want a gift that proves you have genuinely run out of normal gift ideasYou are completing the set because that is simply who you have decided to beYou believe Uncle Bob deserves to be read aloud at full volume in mixed companyThis Book Is NOT For You If...You have not yet recovered from volume three and need more timeYou believe four volumes of this is genuinely three volumes too manyYou are buying gifts for a workplace and have somehow forgotten that fact mid-purchaseYou read the words glue factory in this context and felt something shift inside youYou are the type of person who alphabetizes complaints before submitting themPerfect Occasions for This BookCompleting the collection for the friend who already owns volumes one through threeWhite elephant exchanges where everyone now expects you to bring exactly thisA holiday gift specifically because Santa appears on the cover doing something concerningCamping trips, ironically, given one of the included titles addresses that directlyAnyone who has earned the right to know what Sofa King is actually aboutLook, Just Buy the Stupid BookSame price as a card, vastly more regret per dollar spent. This one gets passed around and somebody always lands on Uncle Bob first, reads the title, and has to sit down. Fourteen books means fourteen separate chances for that exact reaction to happen again at every gathering you bring this to for the rest of your natural life.Four volumes. No end in sight. Brad Gosse has built an entire catalog out of titles that should not work as well as they do, and volume four somehow proves the format has more room to run. Buy it for someone who has already proven they can handle the first three. Let Brad keep going. He clearly intends to. https://bradgosse.com/products/14-of-the-most-terrible-childrens-books-part-4-signed-copy?variant=44460099273007 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09QNWZVN3.png?v=1675972056&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 99.00 USD 9798406777930 B09QNWZVN3 543543 58098068750639 14 of the Most Terrible: An Adult Parody Compendium Nobody Asked For and Everyone NeedsSomeone at a publishing house would be fired for this. Fortunately, Brad Gosse answers to no one. This compendium collects 14 of his most aggressively unnecessary adult parody books into a single volume of over 400 pages of illustrated innuendo, double entendres, and cartoon wrongness delivered in the cheerful visual style of picture books. Inside you will find Brenda the BPD Bat, Matt the Autistic Cat, Peggy Peggington Loves to Peg, Mom Likes to be Choked, Hugh Jayness, How to Network at Swinger Parties, Buster Hyman Pops a Cherry, Frosty the Blowman, Dad's New Doll, Crypto Cuck, Nanny Punani, Mike Hum Delivers Cream Pies, Give Ahead Get Ahead, and The Big Hunt. That is a sentence we typed and published.Over 400 pages. Fourteen books. One terrible decision that somehow becomes more defensible the longer you think about it. Each book is a standalone parody illustrated in full color, built entirely on the premise that innocent-looking cartoon art and deeply committed innuendo are funnier together than they have any right to be. This collection exists. You found it. That probably says something about you that we are not going to say out loud.This Book Is For You If...You already own one of these titles and thought, I wish I had thirteen more of these right nowYou want a single gift that guarantees an entire room goes silent and then completely loses itYou believe that over 400 pages of illustrated adult parody represents genuine value for moneyYou are the kind of person who finishes a Brad Gosse book and immediately needs another oneYou want the coffee table book that ends all further conversation about your personalityThis Book Is NOT For You If...You were offended by the title before you even clicked and yet here you still areYou require your humor to be sophisticated, elevated, or explainable to your employerYou have a formal complaint already drafted and just need one more piece of evidenceYou think fourteen terrible books combined into one makes them collectively less terribleYou are a normal well-adjusted person and you took a wrong turn somewhere on this websitePerfect Occasions for This BookBachelorette parties where one book was not going to be enough anywayWhite elephant exchanges where you intend to win so decisively there is no second placeA coffee table book for the home of someone with absolutely no remaining shameRetirement gifts for someone who spent decades being professionally appropriate and is finishedThe gift for the person who is impossible to shop for because nothing is ever weird enoughYour own personal collection because you have made certain choices and you own themLook, Just Buy the Stupid BookFourteen adult parody books. Over 400 pages. Brenda the BPD Bat through The Big Hunt, collected in one volume that costs less than a single round of drinks. A greeting card gets thrown out. This gets left on the coffee table. Guests pick it up. Guests do not put it down. Someone reads Frosty the Blowman aloud. Someone else reads How to Network at Swinger Parties in a voice. The evening has now taken a direction and that direction is this book's fault entirely.Brad Gosse spent years producing individual volumes of this material one deeply questionable book at a time. Now you can own all fourteen in a single purchase, which is either a bargain or a cry for help depending on who is doing the evaluating. Either way, it is over 400 pages of content that technically cannot be argued with. Buy the compendium. Put it somewhere visible. Watch what happens next. https://bradgosse.com/products/14-of-the-most-terrible-childrens-books-part-9-signed-copy?variant=58098068750639 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/fb5186205c3d7a543aff73cb9e6ea7ed.png?v=1782149213&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 99.00 USD B0H4XFV63C 543543 44460109136175 18 Ways To Tell Kids That Their Parents Died... A Practical Guide For Impractical Situations At some point, someone has to say it. The question is how. This book has curated eighteen approaches, ranging from the gently misleading to the cosmically blunt, each one a different way to deliver the specific information that a child's parents are no longer alive and the child is going to need to process this in approximately the next ninety seconds. Some approaches involve Santa. Some involve Superman. One involves asking how daddy tasted. The guide covers the full range without endorsing any single method as the gold standard, because there is no gold standard, and the guide is honest about that. This adult parody book is dark humor about the worst conversation anyone ever has to have, rendered in illustrated cartoon form with the cheerful format of a how-to guide that knows exactly what it's guiding you through. It is funnier than it has any right to be. The darkness is the feature, not the bug. One person who stumbled across this called it "degenerate and morally corrupt" which is both a fair assessment and an excellent jacket quote for a book about eighteen ways to ruin a child's day with maximum specificity. This Book IS For: Adults who process the darkest human experiences through the darkest available humor and have made peace with this about themselves Fans of illustrated dark comedy that commits fully to a premise most books would not survive the pitch meeting for Anyone who has had to deliver devastating news and retreated to dark humor afterward as a survival mechanism Gift-givers who want to give a funny book that clears the room and then brings it back together through collective discomfort This Book Is NOT For: People who have ever complained about a comedian "going too far" at a show they chose to attend Anyone currently in an active grief situation who has not yet reached the dark-humor-as-coping stage Readers who need their humor to remain within the safe, pre-approved perimeter of what the comfort zone committee has cleared School counselors who are preparing actual scripts for actual conversations and looking for source material Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where handing someone this book is the boldest possible move that someone at the table will absolutely make Gag gifts for friends who work in healthcare, social work, or any field where dark humor is the professional coping mechanism of record Bachelorette parties for the one who has always said "too dark" is not a thing Any gift occasion where normal funny books feel timid and you want the room to go briefly quiet before everyone laughs Why Buy This There are eighteen ways documented in this book. Eighteen. The author sat down and wrote eighteen of them, with cartoon art for each, and a publisher made it into a book, and you are looking at that book right now. That information alone tells you everything about what you're getting into and whether you're the target audience. If you made it this far without closing the page, you are. Buy it. The book is waiting. The eighteen methods are documented. Some of them involve Superman. That's all anyone needs to know going in. At this price, you are spending almost nothing to give someone an experience that lasts considerably longer than the price suggests. This is the funny book that people photograph and send to other people who then want their own copy. It circulates. It gets passed around tables. Someone will read one of the eighteen methods aloud and the room will go quiet and then explode and then someone will say "read another one." Buy it for that moment. 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This Book IS For: People who noticed the subtext in nursery rhymes at a disturbingly early age and have been waiting for this book ever since Anyone who has sat through a traffic stop that felt longer than the actual crime rate in that area warranted Fans of satire that makes its point without ever quite saying the point out loud Gift-givers who want their gift to generate a conversation that lasts well past the unwrapping This Book Is NOT For: People who believe nursery rhymes are sacred cultural texts that exist above reproach or reinterpretation Anyone whose first response to discomfort is to write a formal letter to someone in a position of authority Readers who require all stories to end with a lesson, a reconciliation, and possibly a rainbow Book club members who describe content they personally dislike as objectively harmful to society Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where you want to cause a fifteen-minute discussion about whether this is okay Gag gifts for the friend who has strong opinions about things they read in the news and shares them constantly Bachelorette parties, office parties, any party where at least one person will read it aloud to the group Anyone who asks for a funny book and actually means it rather than wanting something merely pleasant Why Buy This Instead Of Something Forgettable You could buy a novelty mug. 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Told in illustrated cartoon rhyme with the tone of a children's book and the content of something you absolutely should not give to a child, this book does what good dark comedy always manages: takes something uncomfortable, locates the absurdity inside it, and makes you laugh first and think second. You knew what you were clicking on when you opened a book called Baby In A Hot Car. The experience you're about to have is exactly what was advertised. No refunds on self-awareness. 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This book communicates the opposite. It says: I know who you are, I know what you find funny, and I am not apologizing for either of us. That distinction matters. One of those gifts is an act of knowledge. The other is a laminated placeholder for effort. For roughly what you'd pay for a fast food meal that everyone forgets by Tuesday, you can hand someone a book they reference for months. It will make people laugh. It will make people uncomfortable. It will get passed around the room. Three outcomes for one purchase, which is, regardless of what Betty might advise about financial decisions, excellent value per dollar spent. https://bradgosse.com/products/baby-in-a-hot-car-signed-copy?variant=50239510774063 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0D4LR5FG4.png?v=1720546033&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0D4LR5FG4 543543 50239511003439 Baby In A Hot Car: Colouring Book... The Interactive Version Of A Story That Did Not Need To Be Interactive But Here We Are Betty has a baby. Betty has a casino. Betty has made a prioritization decision that the child services system will later describe with clinical precision and that this colouring book describes with illustrated pages waiting for your artistic input. Baby Sam is in the car. The sun is not kind. Tom the guard is doing his rounds. The story is the same as it has always been. The difference is that now you get to colour it in, which adds a participatory dimension to the narrative that neither Betty nor baby Sam requested but that the adult colouring book market has enthusiastically accommodated. This adult colouring book takes the darkest parenting cautionary tale in the catalog and gives it the therapeutic colouring treatment that the adult colouring industry has applied to mandalas, nature scenes, and now apparently this. The irony is that colouring is supposed to be relaxing. The subject matter is the opposite of relaxing. That gap... between the meditative act of colouring and the content being coloured... is where this book lives, and it is comfortable there, and your pencils are going to have opinions about what colour to make Betty's terrible decision. This Book IS For: Fans of adult colouring books who have exhausted the botanical and celestial genres and are ready for something with a narrative arc Adults who find colouring therapeutic and want to test whether that holds when the subject matter is specifically this Anyone who enjoyed the original Baby In A Hot Car and wanted a version where they could contribute artistically to the proceedings Gift-givers who want to combine the functional gift of a colouring book with the experience of a gag gift in one item This Book Is NOT For: People who bought their adult colouring books for actual stress relief and are protective of the genre's therapeutic reputation Readers who need their colouring content to stay in the botanical-floral-celestial lane where the subject matter does not have a child in it Betty, who has enough problems without this documentation existing in a format you can hang on the refrigerator when you're done Anyone whose relationship with cars and summer heat is currently complicated for personal reasons Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties where the activity portion of the evening involves colouring books and someone brought this one White elephant exchanges where you want to give something interactive and also hilarious and not a gift card Gag gifts for the person who owns every adult colouring book and thinks they've seen the full range of the format Any occasion where a regular funny book isn't quite hands-on enough and you want the recipient to be part of the story Why Buy This The adult colouring book market exists because people need to do something with their hands while processing the ambient stress of being alive. Usually that something is a mandala or a forest scene. This book offers a different kind of processing: the colouring-as-coping approach applied to a story about a mother, a casino, a very hot car, and a baby who made it because Tom was doing his rounds. You can colour Tom heroically. You can use whichever shade you feel best represents Betty's specific category of bad decision. The pencils are your editorial voice. It costs less than a colouring supply kit and comes with the story already illustrated. Buy it for someone who has the markers and needs the content. Buy it for someone who wants to test the format's limits. Buy it for yourself and decide what colour Betty's shame is. The casino lights are waiting. Baby Sam is waiting. Tom is on his rounds. The page is blank. 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Whether it’s a sloth applying hemorrhoid cream mid-wine, a penguin having explosive regrets in a frozen stall, or a rabbit managing a literal poop factory, every page delivers laughs, relief, and artistic trauma. 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This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate a punchline that was visible from the first page and lands harder every time you revisit it Fans of double entendre humor that never breaks character, never winks at the camera, never admits to anything Anyone who has ever deadpanned something wildly inappropriate and appreciated when the room caught up Gift-givers who want to hand someone something that looks harmless from across the room and is not This Book Is NOT For: People who read the title and are already composing an internal objection they plan to voice to the group Anyone who has ever used the phrase "this is just not appropriate" without a trace of irony or self-awareness Readers who believe all books about goats should be straightforwardly about goats and nothing more Gift recipients for whom the aftermath of opening this would create a diplomatic situation you're not prepared for Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... this book practically scripts an entire evening without any additional effort required White elephant exchanges where being remembered as the person who brought this is the stated goal Dirty Santa, Secret Santa, any Santa-adjacent gift occasion that has loosened its standards slightly Gag gifts for the friend who has been described, at least once, as "a lot" by someone who couldn't keep up Why Buy This You are going to spend money on a gift regardless. The only question is whether that money produces a moment or produces clutter. A scented candle is clutter. A wine stopper shaped like a cat is clutter. A novelty calendar is clutter by January 12th. This book is a moment: specifically, the moment someone opens it, reads the first two pages, looks at you, reads two more, and looks at you again in a new and different way. No candle has ever done that. Becky has a gift, and so does the person who wrote this, got it published, and continues to sleep soundly every night. It costs less than a decent bottle of wine, lasts longer, and generates more conversation per dollar than almost anything else in this price range. Buy it for someone who will love it. Buy it for someone who absolutely won't. 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Illustrated in cartoon art and narrated with the exhausted resignation of someone who has genuinely tried everything and the rooster remains, this book is funny in the way that only truly relentless situations can be funny. You will recognize Boo-Cockee. Not necessarily as a rooster. Everyone has a Boo-Cockee in their life. Some are roosters. Some are coworkers. Some have a LinkedIn profile and send connection requests monthly. This book gave yours a name. 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Your sense of humor has already alienated your extended family, your therapist has given up, and you need a quick hit of dopamine that only a cardboard box full of my questionable inventory can provide.Welcome to the Mystery Box. It’s exactly what it sounds like: you give me money, and I blindly shovel a bunch of weird shit into a box until it tapes shut.Got a weird, highly specific request? Add a note at checkout. I’ll actually toss your sick little desire in there.The Tiers of Financial IrresponsibilityChoose your level of self-sabotage: Small, Medium, Large, Huge, or Nuts. Here’s the grift: No matter how much you spend, I am going to cram 1.5 to 2 times the dollar value of what you paid into your box. Is it actual, tangible value? Depends on how you define "value." But it’s definitely a terrifying amount of books, stickers, games, and merch.Oh, and to make absolutely sure the resale value remains at zero, I personally deface every single book with my signature.You're welcome.The Island of Misfit ToysHere’s where it gets interesting for the real degenerates. The more you spend, the higher your chances of getting stuck with "rare" misfit items that I don't know what else to do with. I’m talking about gloriously misprinted books, weird factory print samples, and… brace yourself, 1-ounce .999 pure silver Brad Gosse rounds. (Yes, my face on precious metal. A true sign of the impending apocalypse and ego death.)The Enabler’s Guarantee: If you hate your bank account enough to choose the Huge or Nuts options, I guarantee you’ll get one of these rare, one-of-a-kind oddities. Consider it a shiny participation trophy for your terrible spending habits.A WarningTo keep things spicy, I occasionally wrap your box in prank packaging designed specifically to make you rethink your entire existence and make your mailman whisper to your neighbors.Go ahead. Order a box. It’s still cheaper than a psychiatric evaluation, and at least this way, you get physical evidence of your degeneracy to show the people who used to invite you to dinner parties. https://bradgosse.com/products/brad-gosse-mystery-box?variant=45186456092975 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/mystery.jpg?v=1675975424&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 250.00 USD 543543 45186456125743 You Have Terrible Taste...Prove It With The Brad Gosse Mystery Box.Look, we both know why you’re here. Your sense of humor has already alienated your extended family, your therapist has given up, and you need a quick hit of dopamine that only a cardboard box full of my questionable inventory can provide.Welcome to the Mystery Box. It’s exactly what it sounds like: you give me money, and I blindly shovel a bunch of weird shit into a box until it tapes shut.Got a weird, highly specific request? Add a note at checkout. I’ll actually toss your sick little desire in there.The Tiers of Financial IrresponsibilityChoose your level of self-sabotage: Small, Medium, Large, Huge, or Nuts. Here’s the grift: No matter how much you spend, I am going to cram 1.5 to 2 times the dollar value of what you paid into your box. Is it actual, tangible value? Depends on how you define "value." But it’s definitely a terrifying amount of books, stickers, games, and merch.Oh, and to make absolutely sure the resale value remains at zero, I personally deface every single book with my signature.You're welcome.The Island of Misfit ToysHere’s where it gets interesting for the real degenerates. The more you spend, the higher your chances of getting stuck with "rare" misfit items that I don't know what else to do with. I’m talking about gloriously misprinted books, weird factory print samples, and… brace yourself, 1-ounce .999 pure silver Brad Gosse rounds. (Yes, my face on precious metal. A true sign of the impending apocalypse and ego death.)The Enabler’s Guarantee: If you hate your bank account enough to choose the Huge or Nuts options, I guarantee you’ll get one of these rare, one-of-a-kind oddities. Consider it a shiny participation trophy for your terrible spending habits.A WarningTo keep things spicy, I occasionally wrap your box in prank packaging designed specifically to make you rethink your entire existence and make your mailman whisper to your neighbors.Go ahead. Order a box. It’s still cheaper than a psychiatric evaluation, and at least this way, you get physical evidence of your degeneracy to show the people who used to invite you to dinner parties. https://bradgosse.com/products/brad-gosse-mystery-box?variant=45186456125743 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/mystery.jpg?v=1675975424&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 1,299.00 USD 543543 51533126238511 Brenda the BPD Bat Signed Collector Copy or Speedy Prime Copy Welcome to the literary alleyway where hopeful dreams get mugged by sarcasm. Brenda the BPD Bat flaps, screeches, and catastrophizes across forty-ish full-color pages of cartoon mayhem. You have two equally questionable ways to own it: a hand-signed collector copy shipped straight from my cave, or an unsigned Amazon Prime copy that rockets to your doorstep with the emotional warmth of a warehouse robot. Signed Collector Edition: Autographed in a Sharpie scrawl that looks like an ECG flat-lining. Numbered for bragging rights and shipped with the urgency of a sloth on decaf. Unsigned Prime Edition: Same bat chaos, zero autograph. Ideal for last-minute gifting and people who think “personal touch” is how viruses spread. Why Invite This Bat into Your Life? Dark Humor, Cute Packaging: Fluffy cartoon visuals wrapped around borderline personality histrionics. It’s like hiding a mousetrap in a cupcake liner. Conversation-Ending Panels: Leave it on the coffee table and watch friends reassess the friendship mid-sentence. Therapy Starter Kit: Each meltdown, guilt trip, and dramatic text doubles as an icebreaker with your future mental-health professional. SEO Without Shame: Joke book, gag gift, novelty picture book, prank gift, dark humor comic—Google finds the words, you enjoy the wreckage. Signed Edition Details Hand-signed title page—signature authenticity proven by permanent ink smudges. Limited-run numbering so you can brag about owning Copy 37 of a print nobody asked for. Ships in a protective mailer, sturdy enough to survive small existential crises. Prime Edition Details Whisked through Amazon’s logistics hive and deposited on your porch at warp speed. No autograph, no personal contamination—just pure, unapologetic bat chaos. Ideal for procrastinators, commitment-phobes, and anyone whose love language is two-day shipping. Who Will Cherish This? Fans of dark humor, collectors of signed oddities, prank-gift enthusiasts, ex-goth parents, therapists who relish gallows comedy, and that one coworker who keeps HR awake at night. Who Should Probably Flee? Readers seeking wholesome bedtime tales, individuals who think mental illness is sacred territory, and anyone still emotionally recovering from the Up opening sequence. Trigger Warning and Other Buzzkill Notices This book satirizes borderline personality disorder through an anthropomorphic bat. It is neither medically accurate nor emotionally balanced. If you need a safe space, this is a cardboard box labeled “Maybe.” Frequently Avoided Questions Is the signature real? Yes, and it depreciates resale value instantly. Can you personalize it? Leave instructions at checkout—legibility not guaranteed. Will this offend someone? That’s literally the mission statement. Returns? Only if the bat flies back on its own. Final Choice Time Decide whether you crave the sloppy, personalized scrawl of the Signed Collector Edition or the pristine, faceless speed of the Prime Edition. Either way, Brenda will soon roost on your shelf, whispering, “You paid for this” every time you pass by. https://bradgosse.com/products/brenda-the-bpd-bat-signed-copy?variant=51533126238511 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/04bf7e60c272d1d2048b8fe1959ae548.png?v=1750768856&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FFB2GKQY 543543 51871648514351 Buster Hyman Pops a Cherry... a badly behaved picture book parody for adults who laugh at things they absolutely shouldn’t Meet Buster Hyman, a chip-toothed himbo in a loud sweater who barrels through life one double meaning at a time. This not-for-kids, faux–children’s book serves up full-color cartoons with sing-song captions that bounce like a nursery rhyme and sting like a hangover. It’s gleefully immature, proudly inappropriate, and written for grownups who know that the low road usually has the better punchlines. Is the humor sophisticated? Absolutely not. It’s brazenly juvenile wordplay and groan-worthy puns, the stuff you pretend you’re above while quietly snort-laughing into your coffee. If you’ve ever weaponized a dad joke or turned a harmless phrase into a scandalous wink, you’ve already got the vibe. This book doesn’t promise enlightenment. It promises the tiny miracle of a grin you can’t suppress—exactly the sort of relief you buy when the world has been a bit much. What you’ll find inside (other than your lost dignity): A parade of single-panel cartoons where Buster innocently “does things” that sound very, very wrong. Rhyming captions that bop along like a kids’ book… if kids’ books were written by that friend you can’t seat near the microphone at weddings. Scenes such as: Buster pops balloons, breaks the seal, cracks an egg, splits a pear, breaks bread, breaks the ice, shatters glass, busts a cap, pops the cork, splits the bill, splits a log, breaks the mold, does weird stuff but looks so bold, drinks champagne with steak and pork, and then hugs his dog like a lovable himbo king. Full-color illustrations with clean, classic cartoon lines that make the jokes land harder than your last resolution. It’s a cynical little celebration of lowbrow silliness. You flip to any page, read one quick rhyme, and—boom—another laugh. No homework. No lecture. Just a shameless wink dressed up like story time. Think: Dr. Seuss wandered into a dive bar and started doodling on napkins while the jukebox played your worst best song. Important note: This parody is for adults. Not for children, not for coworkers who speak to HR in hushed tones, and not for anyone who takes life so seriously they iron their socks. If you’re the sort who reads the room and still tells the joke, you’re our people. Perfect for gifting when you want laughter to do the talking: Birthdays for the friend who never met a double entendre they didn’t like.Bachelor & bachelorette parties where someone will inevitably mispronounce “charcuterie.”White elephant & Yankee swap exchanges where the only rule is “make it awkward.”Office gag gifts (for fun offices only—please don’t get fired because of us).Housewarming coffee-table chaos for roommates with questionable judgment.Divorce parties and breakups that deserve a grin and a reset.Holiday stockings for the relative who laughs first and asks questions never.Comedians, bartenders, and baristas who collect punchlines like tips. Who will love this? Pun goblins, rhyme gremlins, and anyone cursed with a filthy sense of wordplay. Cartoon fans who appreciate bright, cheeky art with just enough chaos. That one friend who is equal parts charming and terrible—like you, probably. Why this book? Because laughter is a reasonable coping mechanism and this is a small, colorful delivery system for it. You’re not buying a masterpiece. You’re buying a few shameless giggles you can hand to someone else when they need a lift—or when you need plausible deniability: “It wasn’t me. Buster said it.” Our promise is modest and honest: crack it open, read a page, and feel the day get 2% lighter. That’s the whole business model. No grand moral. No complicated plot twist. Just the simple pleasure of a ridiculous cartoon saying the quiet part out loud in singsong rhyme. Buster Hyman Pops a Cherry is the book you stash on the coffee table, hand across the table, or slide under the table when the in-laws arrive. It’s a parody on purpose, a little crass on principle, and funny on contact. If your sense of humor is slightly broken, congratulations—you’re our target audience. Bring Buster home, pretend you’re buying it for a friend, and then keep it for yourself like the chaotic gremlin you are. Warning: contains adult humor, childish glee, and puns with no shame whatsoever. Absolutely not a children’s book. Please read responsibly—preferably when your most sensitive acquaintances are out of earshot. https://bradgosse.com/products/buster-hyman-pops-a-cherry-signed-copy?variant=51871648514351 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/9e87f5a49f53373eb40e346b476b5737.png?v=1758485797&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FRZH3VQ1 543543 44460104679727 Buster The Perverted Ghost... He's In Your House. He's In Your Closet. He's In Your Drawers. Most ghosts have professional standards. They rattle chains, create cold spots, make doors creak at 3am, and generally haunt in the manner that was established by centuries of supernatural tradition. Buster did not receive that orientation. Buster tries on your clothes. Buster looks at things he has no business looking at. Buster has developed a range of interests that are not covered anywhere in the documented afterlife experience, and he pursues those interests with the commitment of someone who has genuinely nothing else going on. Which, to be fair to Buster, he doesn't. He's dead. Illustrated in bright cartoon art that creates maximum contrast with what the cartoon art is depicting, this adult parody book takes haunted house horror and replaces the terror with something more uncomfortable: the specificity of someone you cannot get rid of who is doing exactly what you think. The humor is wrong. The artwork is charming. The combination of those two things is precisely the point, and the book executes on it from the first page to the last. This Book IS For: Horror fans who appreciate when comedy infiltrates the genre uninvited and refuses to leave Anyone who has suspected there's a presence in their home and has decided not to investigate because honestly they don't want to know People with a high tolerance for weirdness who find sanitized entertainment exhausting Gift-givers who want to deliver something that will absolutely get shown to every guest at the next party This Book Is NOT For: People who believe the ghost community deserves to be portrayed with dignity, nuance, and appropriate representation Anyone currently living alone in a house that makes sounds at night who doesn't need this specific imagery Readers who require their humor to exist in a completely unsettling-free zone The kind of person who would attempt to file a formal complaint with a haunted house for emotional damages Appropriate For: Halloween parties, where it functions as both entertainment and genuine conversation piece White elephant and Dirty Santa exchanges where maximum chaos is the stated objective Bachelorette parties for the one who always wants to do the haunted house and drags everyone along Gag gifts for anyone who lives alone, has a sense of humor about it, and is about to have slightly less of one Why Buy This Halloween-adjacent gifts are either expensive or forgettable. Plastic decorations from a drugstore cost more than this and end up in the garbage by November 2nd. A haunted house ticket is gone in an hour. This book is permanent. Buster lives in it permanently, doing his thing, available for re-reading at any time of year. The value proposition is actually quite reasonable once you accept that Buster is a legitimate recurring cost. Give it to someone who will read it alone, at night, and then immediately wish they had a roommate. Give it to someone with exactly the right sense of humor who will display it proudly on a shelf. Give it to someone who works in a building they've always found slightly off. Buster is already there. He was already there before you bought the book. The book just tells you about it. https://bradgosse.com/products/buster-the-perverted-ghost-signed-copy?variant=44460104679727 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0B4LN9VD1.png?v=1675972154&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798838874566 B0B4LN9VD1 543543 44460113658159 Camel Tony He Loves Roast Beef And He Hates Pepperoni... Very Specific Dietary Preferences For A CamelCamel Tony has strong opinions about sandwiches. Roast beef: yes, enthusiastically, always. Pepperoni: absolutely not, under any circumstances, and he will explain at length why pepperoni does not belong in his life. He is also, apparently, fine with people cutting in line, which suggests a personality that is flexible in some areas and extremely specific in others. This book is entirely about what Camel Tony likes and does not like on his sandwich. That is the whole book. There is nothing else going on here whatsoever.This adult parody book operates on a layer of plausible deniability so thin you could read through it, and it knows that, and it commits fully to the bit anyway for every single page. Every sentence is technically correct. Every illustration depicts a camel near food. And yet somehow every adult who reads this book arrives at the same interpretation, which says more about them than it does about Camel Tony, who is simply a camel with a very reasonable preference for roast beef.This Book IS For:Adults who appreciate a long setup that was predictable from the title and still delivers because the commitment is totalAnyone who enjoys double entendre humor that never breaks and never apologizes and just keeps goingFans of food-adjacent comedy that is technically about food and yet somehow absolutely is not about foodGift-givers who enjoy the specific experience of handing something to someone and watching the understanding arriveThis Book Is NOT For:People who will spend considerable time explaining that this isn't really about sandwiches and that the distinction matters morallyAnyone whose relationship with a camel has been personally meaningful and they'd prefer it not be used this wayReaders who want their animal characters to have simple, surface-level motivations that don't imply anythingGift recipients who won't see the joke and will ask follow-up questions that are harder to answer than they should beAppropriate For:Bachelorette parties... Camel Tony is essentially a party theme that has not been fully explored yetWhite elephant exchanges where you want to be the person everyone remembers buying the thingAny gathering of adults who are comfortable laughing at things that are technically, legally, completely about sandwichesGag gifts for the friend whose sense of humor has gotten them into trouble more than onceWhy Buy ThisMost sandwich-related purchases are consumed and forgotten. The sandwich disappears. The experience ends. Camel Tony's preferences, by contrast, are now documented in permanent illustrated form and can be revisited at any point for the rest of your life. You paid sandwich money and got something that outlasts the sandwich by decades. That is a return on investment that the sandwich cannot match no matter how good the roast beef is.This book sits on a coffee table and gets picked up by every person who visits. Every person reads the first two pages. Every person looks at you. You shrug. This cycle continues for years. It is the gift that keeps generating the same moment over and over again with each new audience, which is a better deal than almost anything else you could buy at this price. Camel Tony loves roast beef. He's earned your business. https://bradgosse.com/products/camel-tony-he-loves-roast-beef-and-he-hates-pepperoni-signed-copy?variant=44460113658159 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B091J1VTC4.png?v=1675972284&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798732636598 B091J1VTC4 543543 44460106219823 Candi's Nuts Come In The Morning Each Day... A Local Business The Community Clearly Supports Candi makes candied nuts. From scratch. Every morning. She does not cut corners, she does not use shortcuts, and the consistency of her product has generated a word-of-mouth following in the neighborhood that frankly exceeds what most small businesses achieve in their first year of operation. The neighbors know about Candi's nuts. The people at her partner's workplace have heard about them. Word is spreading. This book documents the growth of Candi's nut enterprise with the sincere enthusiasm of a business success story and absolutely nothing else going on at all. Adult parody humor that sustains a single premise across an entire illustrated book without one moment of actual explicitness is harder to pull off than it sounds, and this book manages it completely. Every sentence is about nuts. Every illustration depicts nuts. The entire narrative arc concerns the production and distribution of Candi's nuts. Anyone reading anything else into this story is doing so entirely on their own, which is their right and also their problem, and they should probably think about why. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate a sustained comedic premise that gets funnier with each page instead of burning out at the setup Anyone who has had to maintain a straight face through a sentence that should have required more effort than it got Fans of humor that operates entirely within plausible deniability while being completely implausible Gift-givers who want to watch a person read something, process it, look up, and be unable to say what they're thinking This Book Is NOT For: Entrepreneurs who feel fictional small business owners deserve to be portrayed without ulterior narrative layers People who heard the title, formed an opinion, and are prepared to share that opinion with anyone who will listen Readers who find escalating repetition in humor exhausting rather than deeply, correctly satisfying Anyone who would Google "Candi's Nuts" in public without considering the results or their environment Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... this one is practically mandatory and you already know why White elephant exchanges where "winning" means the story of your gift being retold at the next event Office holiday parties in offices where HR has either loosened its standards or briefly stepped out Gag gifts for anyone in a profession where professional language occasionally creates unintentional comedy Why Buy This Somewhere right now, someone is buying a gift that will produce a polite smile, a quiet "thank you," and a spot in the regifting pile by February. You do not have to be that person. You can buy this book, hand it to someone at a party, and watch their face travel through a very specific journey that takes ninety seconds and ends somewhere between laughter and genuine concern about what just happened to them. Candi put the work in. She bakes from scratch. She does not cut corners. She deserves customers who appreciate the full scope of her enterprise. Buy the book, understand the business, and accept that a gift this affordable has no business producing this much entertainment value. And yet here we are, every morning, Candi's nuts arriving right on schedule. https://bradgosse.com/products/candis-nuts-come-in-the-morning-each-day-signed-copy?variant=44460106219823 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09RJPG6BN.png?v=1675972160&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798410319263 B09RJPG6BN 543543 44460111331631 Candy Man Van: Strangers Come In All Shapes And Sizes... A Safety Guide From Someone Who Knows When we think of strangers, we picture a van. Sometimes we picture a specific type of adult with a very specific type of offer. This book does not subvert those expectations so much as it carefully examines them from several angles, holds them up to the light, and hands them back with a smile that suggests it knows more about the subject than it's letting on. The candy man is here. The van is here. There are things in the back. This is an adult parody book about stranger awareness, and it is aware of more strangers than most public safety materials are prepared to acknowledge. Illustrated in cartoon art with the tone of an educational pamphlet and the content of something that would get an educational pamphlet recalled immediately, this book does what good dark comedy always does: it takes something genuinely alarming, finds the angle, and makes you laugh in a way that briefly feels like a moral failing. That feeling is fine. The laughter is valid. Pretending certain things don't exist has never made anyone safer. This book at least makes people aware. Sort of. This Book IS For: Adults who use humor as a processing mechanism for things that would otherwise require a much more expensive coping strategy Fans of dark comedy that commits fully to its premise without losing its nerve at the last minute Anyone who can laugh at something uncomfortable without immediately needing to explain that the laugh was okay actually True crime enthusiasts who also want something they can give as a gift that's lighter in tone than their usual recommendations This Book Is NOT For: People who believe certain categories of subject matter should be permanently sealed away from satire regardless of execution Anyone who has taken a screenshot of something they found funny specifically to report it somewhere official Readers who need comedy to be pre-cleared, risk-assessed, and approved before they can comfortably engage with it Parents who are currently in active stranger danger conversations with their children and have not yet developed ironic distance from the topic Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where the room has established it can handle something that goes all the way Shock gifts for the friend who claims they've seen everything and needs to have that claim tested Gag gifts for fans of dark humor who've run out of things that surprise them... until now Any occasion where a merely funny book would feel like an underperformance given the audience Why Buy This Novelty gifts exist on a spectrum from mildly amusing to genuinely memorable. Most land somewhere in the first category and then migrate toward a donation bag within one moving cycle. This book will not migrate. It will stay out. It will be shown to people. It will generate a specific kind of reaction that novelty socks simply cannot replicate at any price point. The candy man has a van. The van has things in it. The book costs less than most of the things in the van and provides significantly more lasting value. Whether you lean into the safety angle or the absurdist comedy angle or just want to hand someone a thing that will make them react visibly, this delivers. The offer is on the table. The van is running. https://bradgosse.com/products/candy-man-van-strangers-come-in-all-shapes-and-sizes-signed-copy?variant=44460111331631 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HQ8MHP7.png?v=1675972236&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798684126239 B08HQ8MHP7 543543 44460114149679 Cavity Cat: He Comes In Your Mouth And Gives You Cavities... A Dental Situation Nobody Asked For Cavity Cat has a name and Cavity Cat has a game. Late at night, while you are sleeping, Cavity Cat is active. He comes in your mouth. He does his work. He does not explain himself and he does not apologize. The cavities are discovered at a later date by a dental professional who has questions you cannot answer. This book documents Cavity Cat's activities in illustrated cartoon form with the cheerful educational tone of a dental hygiene pamphlet that has taken a very hard left turn somewhere in the production process. This adult parody book sustains a premise that is technically, defensibly, completely about a cat who causes dental problems, while being received by every single adult who reads it as something else entirely. This is intentional. The author knew. Everyone involved in producing this knew. The question is whether you know, and whether knowing stops you. Based on the fact that you are still reading this description, the answer to the second question is no, and that's the correct answer. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate a running joke that commits hard to its premise and never blinks across an entire illustrated book Anyone who has ever been told by a dental professional that they need to do better and responded with visible indifference Fans of humor that operates in the gap between what is technically on the page and what everyone in the room is actually hearing Gift-givers who want something to hand to a dentist, dental hygienist, or anyone in oral health who claims they've heard everything This Book Is NOT For: Dental professionals who believe their field should be treated with consistent reverence at all times including recreational reading Anyone who found the title description already exhausting and is uncertain why they continued reading this far People who need their cat characters to have motivations that are strictly, literally feline in nature Anyone who already has a difficult relationship with their dentist and cannot afford to make it weirder Appropriate For: Gifts for dentists and dental staff... it will either be displayed in the break room or used as a reason to discuss your file White elephant exchanges where someone will read the title out loud and the resulting silence will be priceless Bachelorette parties, because Cavity Cat fits into more bachelorette scenarios than anyone expected or planned for Any occasion where the gift should make an impression that lasts longer than the appointment that inspired it Why Buy This Your dentist's waiting room has magazines from two years ago, a fish tank, and pamphlets about gum disease that nobody reads. Imagine instead: this book, on a side table, available to patients. That is a dental practice worth going to. You could make that happen for roughly the cost of a tube of whitening toothpaste that will also, ultimately, fail to address the cavity situation. Cavity Cat is coming regardless. He comes every night. The only question is whether the person you give this book to is prepared for him or not. This book prepares no one but informs everyone, which is the most honest thing that can be said about any dental education material. Buy it. Floss. Schedule the appointment. Cavity Cat is already in your calendar. https://bradgosse.com/products/cavity-cat-he-comes-in-your-mouth-and-gives-you-cavities-signed-copy?variant=44460114149679 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HQ6JWJ2.png?v=1675972296&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798684180422 B08HQ6JWJ2 543543 44460106776879 Child Services: They're Coming For You And Your Big Sister Too... The Wellness Check Nobody Scheduled But Someone Deserved Your house is a mess. A specific kind of mess, at a specific level, that crossed a line someone documented. Child Services has been alerted by a party whose identity is technically confidential but whose timing relative to last Thursday's situation makes certain things clear. They are on their way. This book documents that visit: the professional assessment, the questions, the look at the kitchen, the longer look at the living room, and the longer-still look at the circumstances that led to this moment. Nobody in this book is entirely wrong. Everybody in this book could have done better. The book is honest about that. Illustrated in cartoon art with the tone of a children's guide to a process that no children's guide has ever actually explained, this adult parody book goes where most things in its visual format won't. It acknowledges that government intervention is a real, funny, terrifying, and entirely relatable concept depending on which week you're having. The social worker is professional. The kids are resilient. The parents are trying. The book does not resolve in the direction of a hug. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up in chaotic households and have since developed humor as the primary load-bearing coping mechanism Parents who are having a bad month and need to read about a fictional situation significantly worse than their own to feel better Fans of dark comedy that does not lose its nerve between the title and the last page Gift-givers looking for something to give a new parent that isn't a onesie, a sleep book, or false optimism This Book Is NOT For: Social workers who bring their caseload into their recreational reading choices and find this insufficiently respectful Anyone who would like a formal disclaimer before dark humor clarifying that the views expressed are satirical Readers who recently had their own governmental-agency experience and need a few more weeks before laughing about it Baby shower guests who bring parenting philosophy books they've annotated in the margins with their own opinions Appropriate For: Baby showers for the expectant parent who has specifically asked for nothing pink, blue, or soft Gag gifts for new parents who appreciate being warned about their near future in a tone that doesn't take itself seriously White elephant exchanges where someone in the office has been complaining about the state of their household all year Any gift occasion where being remembered as the giver matters more than being considered tasteful Why Buy This New parent gifts are a massive, well-intentioned, mostly forgettable industry. Enormous volumes of soft, pastel-colored items are gifted each year and absorbed into closets where they become future donations. This book will not be absorbed. It will be read, it will cause a laugh that hits differently given the context, and it will end up on a visible shelf where guests pick it up and ask about it. That is a gift at full utilization. The onesie is already gone. It costs less than a swaddle blanket that gets used twice. It occupies less space than a diaper cake. And unlike most things given at a baby shower, it acknowledges that parenthood has a chaos component that no amount of registry items can fully address. That honesty alone is worth the price. Child Services understands. They've seen the kitchen. https://bradgosse.com/products/child-services-theyre-coming-for-you-and-your-big-sister-too-signed-copy?variant=44460106776879 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08MHZBSN7.png?v=1675972169&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798557770422 B08MHZBSN7 543543 50679061315887 Christmas Is Canceled... Santa Has Read The Room And Made A Business Decision Hey, kid. There's news. Christmas is not happening this year. There are reasons. The reasons are specific. This book explains them in illustrated cartoon form with the kind of direct delivery that holiday greeting cards have never been willing to provide but that certain children and most adults have probably needed for a while now. Santa has made his list. He has checked it twice. The results were not in your favor. The logistics of the operation simply do not support another year at this address. This is an adult parody book that takes the holiday season... which has always had a complicated relationship with honesty... and removes the comfortable fiction at the center of it. The result is funnier than it has any right to be and more cathartic than most actual therapy available at this price point. It is for the holidays. It is anti-holiday. It contains the holiday spirit in the same way a fire extinguisher contains fire: in a compressed, controlled, and somewhat alarming form. This Book IS For: Anyone who has ever had to perform enthusiasm for the holiday season while feeling something adjacent to the opposite People who love Christmas ironically, which at this point covers most of the adults who claim to love Christmas sincerely Fans of humor that targets sacred seasonal institutions and does so without apologizing afterward Gift-givers who want to give something at a holiday exchange that generates more reaction than another bottle of wine This Book Is NOT For: People who begin decorating for Christmas in October and find this energy threatening to their lifestyle Anyone who has sent a formal complaint to a business about insufficient holiday displays in their storefront Readers who believe the holiday season should be a no-comedy zone where nothing is permitted to be satirized Children who are still operating under the full institutional framework of what this book is dismantling Appropriate For: White elephant and Dirty Santa exchanges... the most naturally appropriate use case imaginable Gag gifts for the friend who has been describing the holidays as "stressful" since approximately Labor Day Holiday parties where at least half the guests would privately agree with Santa's decision Anyone who needs a gift that says "I see you and the specific way you feel about this time of year" Why Buy This Holiday cards cost almost as much as this book and say nothing that hasn't been printed on a holiday card since 1987. They arrive, they get displayed on a mantle for three weeks, they go in a box, and they are eventually discarded with dignity during a spring cleaning that becomes more aggressive every year. This book says something new. It says something true. It causes a different kind of reaction entirely, which in the holiday gift context is practically a miracle. You're already buying something. The season demands it. The only choice is whether that thing produces a moment or produces clutter. Christmas is canceled in this book. Whether that cancellation feels like a tragedy or a relief depends entirely on the person you give it to, and knowing which one they are is the first sign that you actually know them well enough to have picked this. Good. They deserve it. https://bradgosse.com/products/christmas-is-canceled?variant=50679061315887 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0DLKFCQ31.png?v=1731102252&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0DLKFCQ31 543543 44460100550959 Cinnamon: A Horse Forced Into The Sex Trade... The Sequel Nobody Saw Coming But Everyone Probably Should Have Cinnamon is back. If you read the first book, you know that Cinnamon's journey did not end well and the glue factory was supposed to be the final chapter. It was not the final chapter. The economy being what it is, Cinnamon has pivoted. He is still happy to run, of course. He is also apparently available for a range of other professional engagements that were not disclosed in the original book because nobody knew to ask. This sequel documents Cinnamon's new career with illustrated cartoon art and the deadpan consistency of a business profile piece about a horse who is making choices. This adult parody book does not pretend to be about anything other than what it says it is about, which is a horse, a series of decisions, and the circumstances that led to those decisions. It is dark. It is funny. It is the kind of thing that makes you laugh and then briefly reconsider the laugh and then laugh again because reconsidering it made it funnier. The original was sad. This one is sadder in a completely different direction. Cinnamon deserved better. He knows it. He made alternate arrangements. This Book IS For: Readers of the original Cinnamon book who need to know what happened next even though they weren't sure they wanted to Adults who can engage with dark subject matter through the protective medium of cartoon horses and dry narration Anyone who has ever made a career decision under pressure that they would prefer not to explain at length Gift-givers who want to give a two-book arc to someone and let them experience the full emotional journey This Book Is NOT For: Horse advocates who found the first book upsetting and have since been waiting for Cinnamon's narrative to improve Readers who need sequels to represent growth, recovery, and a more positive trajectory than the original Anyone who has ever filed paperwork on behalf of an animal and finds this direction professionally troubling People who thought the glue factory ending had enough finality and did not require this additional context Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... Cinnamon's career arc is surprisingly on-theme for this specific occasion White elephant exchanges for people who read the first book and want to experience the sequel simultaneously Gag gifts paired with the original for maximum emotional impact and minimum plausible innocence Anyone who loves dark humor sequels that commit harder than the first installment Why Buy This The first Cinnamon book took you to the glue factory. This one takes you somewhere else entirely, and the distance between those two destinations is the whole joke. If you already bought the original, you already know the investment is worth it. If you're coming in on book two without the context, go get book one first. Then come back. Cinnamon's story is best experienced as a complete arc. For a fraction of what a night out costs, you get two books about a horse whose life keeps going in directions nobody planned. That horse is a comedian. That horse is a cautionary tale. That horse is, at this point, making more unconventional career decisions than most people you know, and the book documents every one of them with cartoon art and the kind of resigned narration that only comes from someone who has stopped being surprised. Buy it. Cinnamon is working. He's always working now. https://bradgosse.com/products/cinnamon-a-horse-forced-into-the-sex-trade-signed-copy?variant=44460100550959 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HBB3FR8.png?v=1675972083&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798682272822 B08HBB3FR8 543543 44460108513583 Cinnamon Visits The Glue Factory... A Love Story. Briefly. When a dad panics mid-divorce and impulse-buys a horse, the horse does not know it is a coping mechanism. The child does not know it either. They are both just happy there is a horse now. This happiness is temporary. Most happiness involving horses and divorce is. Cinnamon ends up where all poorly planned guilt-horses go. The title tells you. The book walks you there with illustrated cartoon art and the quiet dignity of a story that knows exactly how bad it is and does not apologize for it. This Book IS For: Adults who received a wildly inappropriate apology gift as a child and still think about it Anyone who has explained something to a kid by not fully explaining it People with a high tolerance for what polite society calls "too soon" Gift-givers who prefer to be memorable over tasteful This Book Is NOT For: Horse owners who are still in the denial stage about their horse People who have written a letter to a company because a cartoon upset them Anyone currently mid-divorce and not yet laughing about it Teachers who believe all stories require a redemption arc Appropriate For: Divorce parties, which are absolutely a real and accepted thing now White elephant exchanges where you intend to win Bachelorette parties for the one who owns too many horse figurines Gag gift situations where everyone agrees the bar is deliberately low Why Buy This Instead Of A Card A greeting card costs almost as much as this book, gets read once, and lives in a drawer for six months before someone quietly throws it out. This book gets read aloud. Someone laughs. Someone goes quiet. Somebody asks where you found it. That is a moment. Cards do not cause moments. You are not buying a book. You are buying the look on someone's face when they reach the last page and realize what just happened. That look is worth every cent. The greeting card industry would prefer you not figure this out. https://bradgosse.com/products/cinnamon-visits-the-glue-factory-signed-copy?variant=44460108513583 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08P8D7696.png?v=1675972190&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798574051658 B08P8D7696 543543 44460100976943 Clip Clop The Racist Horse Cop... Serving And Protecting Certain Members Of The Community Ever since he was young, Clip Clop knew he wanted to be on the force. He joined. He rose through the ranks. He developed opinions along the way that were perhaps never fully examined or challenged by the institution that hired him, and now Clip Clop is out there every day, clip-clopping his way through a beat that he polices with the specific energy of someone whose worldview was formed in 1987 and has not been updated since. He is a horse. He is a cop. He has done the math on certain situations and arrived at conclusions that are deeply, visibly wrong. The book documents this. This adult parody book is satire about systemic bias wrapped in a cartoon horse premise, and it executes that combination with the precision of a book that knows exactly what it's doing and decided to do it anyway. Clip Clop is not a villain in his own story, which is the most accurate thing about him. He is just a horse with a badge and a perspective that the book holds up to the light without commentary. The commentary turns out to be unnecessary. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate satire that works harder than it looks like it's working Anyone who has ever watched an institution reveal its character through its unexamined assumptions Fans of comedy that is funny first and pointed second, with both qualities fully present Gift-givers who want something that will generate actual discussion after the initial laugh This Book Is NOT For: Readers who believe policing should be exempt from satire regardless of the vehicle used to deliver it Anyone whose immediate response to institutional criticism is to argue that it's not the right format People who need their horse cops to be uncomplicated protagonists who resolve things happily by the last page Anyone currently in the process of writing a letter to a media company about content they found distressing Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where the room is sharp enough to appreciate a joke that has layers Gag gifts for the friend who reads a lot of news and needs something that processes it through humor Any occasion where you want to give a book that makes people laugh and then say something real afterward Fans of political and social satire who want it delivered via cartoon horse cop for once Why Buy This Satire is one of the oldest and most effective tools humans have ever developed for processing the uncomfortable truth that institutions are made of people, and people carry things with them. This book puts that truth in a cartoon horse, gives the horse a badge, and sends him to work. The result is funny in the way that the best satire is funny... because the absurdity is recognizable, and recognition is what makes the laugh land. It costs roughly what a political book costs to ship, with considerably less self-importance and considerably more cartoon horses. Clip Clop is out on patrol. He is doing his job the way he was trained to do it. Nobody has told him otherwise, and the book isn't going to start now. That's your job, if you're up for it. The book just provides the opening. https://bradgosse.com/products/clip-clop-the-racist-horse-cop-signed-copy?variant=44460100976943 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09SFCTP9W.png?v=1675972086&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798416479268 B09SFCTP9W 543543 44460114936111 Conjoined Twins 2: Where Does One End And The Other Begin?... Follow-Up Questions Nobody Asked But Everybody Has The first book raised questions. This book raises more questions, because the situation of being conjoined turns out to be infinitely more complex the more seriously you take it, and this book takes it very seriously indeed. What if one can swim and the other cannot? Can just one of them become an astronaut? What happens at the doctor when one twin is the patient and the other is just sort of there? These are real questions with no comfortable answers, and this book asks them with the patient persistence of someone who genuinely needs to know. Illustrated in cartoon art with the tone of a serious philosophical inquiry and the delivery of something that should not be this funny but absolutely is, this adult parody book follows its predecessor by finding even more territory in a premise that most people assumed had a natural ceiling. It turns out the ceiling is much higher than expected. The questions keep coming. The answers remain elusive. The book keeps asking anyway, with complete commitment and zero resolution, which is the most accurate representation of what it would actually be like. This Book IS For: Readers of the first Conjoined Twins book who found themselves genuinely thinking about the unanswered questions for days afterward Anyone who has ever had a hypothetical go completely out of control and found it more interesting the deeper it went Fans of absurdist humor that treats its absurd premise with total logical seriousness Gift-givers who want to give someone a book that functions as a conversation starter for the entire evening This Book Is NOT For: People who believe conjoined twins as a subject should only be addressed in medical or documentary formats Anyone who found the first book sufficient and does not need further inquiry into this particular topic Readers who need their philosophical questions to eventually reach conclusions and not just generate more questions Anyone who has an actual personal connection to this topic and needs it not to be the premise of a parody book right now Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges... this one generates conversation that goes well past the unwrapping and into the evening Gag gifts for the friend who goes down research rabbit holes and comes back with more questions than they started with Paired gift with the original for the full philosophical arc experience Anyone who loves books that make them think about things they've never thought about in ways they can't stop Why Buy This Most sequels exist because the first one made money. This sequel exists because the first one raised questions that needed a second book's worth of space to not answer. That is a different and arguably more honest reason for a sequel to exist, and the book is better for it. The questions here are specific, weird, and entirely valid once you start pulling on the thread, and you will start pulling on the thread. Roughly the price of a philosophy textbook that answers its questions neatly and sends you home satisfied. This book costs less, asks harder questions, and leaves you with more to think about than any textbook has ever managed. The twins are conjoined. The situation is complicated. The book keeps asking. Buy it for someone who likes to think. 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This adult parody book is the original in the series that has apparently generated enough unanswered questions to support a sequel, which tells you everything you need to know about how deep this goes. Illustrated in cartoon art with the structure of a genuine philosophical dialogue and the execution of something that will make you laugh while you're trying to think seriously about the questions being raised, it is the rare comedy that gets more interesting the longer you engage with it. There are no answers here. Only better questions. This Book IS For: Anyone who has ever had a hypothetical that started simple and became genuinely complicated in ways that kept them up at night Fans of absurdist humor that commits to treating its most ridiculous premise with complete intellectual seriousness Philosophy enthusiasts who want their ethics discussions delivered via cartoon rather than dense academic text Gift-givers who want to start a conversation that will still be going at 1am This Book Is NOT For: People who find the premise inherently disrespectful regardless of the comedic intent and execution Readers who need questions to be followed by answers in a reasonable timeframe Anyone who has encountered this topic in a non-comedic context recently and needs some distance first People who describe books as "not for them" and then immediately describe them to other people anyway Appropriate For: White elephant gift exchanges where you want to give something that gets read aloud to the full group Gag gifts for the overthinking friend who already asks too many hypotheticals and needs fuel Book clubs that have agreed to include at least one thing per year that's entirely unlike the other choices Anyone who loves the kind of gift that creates material for the next two hours of conversation Why Buy This There is an entire genre of books about difficult philosophical questions. They're long. They're expensive. They use words like "epistemological" and expect you to be grateful. This book asks harder questions with better illustrations and costs a fraction of the price. The questions about crime, relationships, and dietary preferences are all genuinely impossible to resolve, and the book knows that, and it asks them anyway with the cheerful persistence of someone who is not going to stop. Buy it. Read it. Try to answer one of the questions. Fail. Show it to someone and watch them fail. Repeat indefinitely. For the price of a nice pen that will stop working within six weeks, you get a book that generates discussion indefinitely, raises questions you'll find yourself thinking about while doing unrelated tasks, and confirms that some things simply do not resolve. Welcome to the club. There are two members. They share a torso. 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Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/creepy-creatures-to-keep-you-awake-with-unanswered-questions-signed-copy?variant=44460112183599 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B085KBSPB3.png?v=1675972253&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798621927745 B085KBSPB3 543543 52035983638831 Crypto Cuck: How Dad Lost His SOL This is the tragicomic tale of one man, one meme coin, and one spectacularly catastrophic financial faceplant. Written like a children’s book. Drawn like a Saturday morning cartoon. But absolutely, unequivocally not for kids. Crypto Cuck follows a wide-eyed, dead-inside dad who gambles the family nest egg on magic internet money and watches his entire life unravel... one poor decision and rug pull at a time. It’s the feel-bad book of the year… and you’re going to laugh your ass off reading it. This cautionary tale of coin-flipping, meme-chasing, and financial self-immolation is perfect for anyone who's: Ever lost money in crypto (so… all of us) Been ghosted by a startup, a spouse, or a Solana wallet Ditched their job chasing internet riches Or just enjoys watching other people make worse life choices than them This book is for the crypto bro who still says “WAGMI” with a straight face, wears a hoodie to weddings, and keeps trying to pay for lunch in ETH even though everyone just wants to split the check on Venmo. He’s got 14 browser tabs open, all charts, none profitable. He once took out a personal loan to ape into a frog coin with zero utility and thinks “financial literacy” means memorizing his seed phrase. He doesn’t read books, he reads tweets. But this one? He might actually finish. Inside, you’ll meet: Dad, the dreamer-turned-degen who YOLOs the family savings into JPEGs and vapor Mom, who sees the Lambo dreams for what they are and runs off with a developer named Rajjeet Junior, who learns the blockchain, exacts revenge, and somehow turns it all around It’s a story of greed, delusion, financial ruin, betrayal, and redemption. Told in delightful rhyming couplets and illustrated in a style suspiciously similar to the books that used to teach you the ABCs... before you had to learn about APR, APY, and the soul-crushing reality of margin calls. Crypto Cuck is a hilarious, cynical, brutally honest parody of modern digital finance culture. It's like reading a bedtime story, if bedtime was 3 a.m., you’re sweaty, your wife left, and you just mortgaged your house for a coin called Buttfart Inu. Give this book to: The crypto bro in your life (he needs it) Your ex who swore Dogecoin was “gonna change everything” Your friend who won’t shut up about NFTs Your dad, so he never tries this crap Or yourself, as a harsh, but hysterical... mirror Great for birthdays, Christmas, divorces, or just a good old-fashioned intervention. Comes with zero financial advice, 100% schadenfreude, and absolutely no do-overs (just like real crypto). If you’ve ever wondered, “Could this be the dumbest book I’ve ever laughed out loud at?”. Yes it could. Buy Crypto Cuck. Give the gift of laughter at someone else's expense. 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This is a more accurate representation of what it looks like when adults process their relationship dynamics honestly, and it is also significantly funnier than the original rhyme ever managed to be. Illustrated in cartoon art with rhymes that follow the original meter and stray considerably from the original content, this adult parody book gives a familiar story the adult update it has implicitly been waiting for. The format is children's book. The subject is decidedly not. The gap between those two things is, once again, exactly where the humor lives, and this book has set up a very comfortable residence there. This Book IS For: Adults who have spent time in the modern relationship landscape and appreciate honesty being treated as a punchline and also as a virtue Fans of nursery rhyme parody that commits to its adult reinterpretation without looking back Anyone who finds the specific vocabulary of non-traditional relationship structures ripe for comedy Gift-givers attending a bachelorette party, a divorce party, or any gathering where relationship dynamics are already the subtext This Book Is NOT For: People who believe Jack and Jill's water-fetching expedition should remain the definitive version of their story Anyone who has very strong opinions about relationship structures that they share in unsolicited contexts Readers who would like the nursery rhyme canon treated with the same gravity as primary source material Anyone planning to give this to someone whose sense of humor in this specific area remains untested and could go either way Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... this one almost programs its own evening without any additional planning Divorce parties, which exist now and deserve gifts that match their energy White elephant exchanges where the group has already self-selected for this kind of content Anyone currently navigating the vocabulary of modern dating who could use something to laugh about Why Buy This Most books about adult relationship dynamics are either self-help, which is earnest and expensive, or literary fiction, which is earnest and slower. This one is twelve pages of illustrated cartoon rhyme that costs the same as a round of drinks and takes four minutes to read aloud, after which the room will have opinions. Those opinions will generate conversation. That conversation will either bring people together or reveal useful information about the room. Either outcome is valuable. Jack and Jill went up the hill. What actually happened up there has been a matter of speculation for centuries. This book finally provides an answer. It is not the answer anyone expected, but it is an answer, and it comes with cartoon illustrations and rhyming couplets that make it considerably more accessible than most relationship theory. Buy it. Read it. Discuss. There are few better ways to spend twelve pages. https://bradgosse.com/products/cuckolding-with-jack-and-jill-signed-copy?variant=50239509332271 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CQPR2BVM.png?v=1720546016&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0CQPR2BVM 543543 44460101140783 Cucumber Curtis Can't Come To Dinner... A Grocery Store Encounter With Lasting Social Consequences It begins at the grocery store. There are apples. There are bananas. There is beer. And somewhere in the produce section, there is Cucumber Curtis, who for reasons this book will explain at length and with complete illustrated sincerity, cannot come to dinner. He just cannot. The family has discussed it. The decision has been made. Curtis's presence at the dinner table has been reviewed and the conclusion was unanimous. Cucumber Curtis stays in the kitchen. At most. This adult parody book is about a cucumber who cannot be invited to dinner, and that premise is followed with the earnest thoroughness of a book about a cucumber who cannot be invited to dinner that knows exactly what it's actually about. Every explanation for why Curtis can't come is technically valid. Every illustration shows a cucumber being excluded from social situations for reasons that are entirely produce-related. The reader is doing all the other work, and the book is comfortable with that arrangement. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate a vegetable-based euphemism sustained across an entire illustrated book with total commitment Anyone who has been in a situation that required keeping a straight face for longer than was comfortable Fans of humor that says one thing while meaning another and never once admits to the second thing Gift-givers who enjoy giving something that looks perfectly innocent from a distance and is not innocent from any other distance This Book Is NOT For: Cucumbers, who have done nothing to deserve this and are not available to consent to the portrayal Anyone who needs their produce characters to have simple, honest motivations that don't imply anything further Readers who have already reached their weekly quota of vegetable innuendo and need a break People who will read this and say "I don't get it" and then describe it to three other people who will immediately get it Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... Curtis has been waiting for this invitation his entire career White elephant exchanges where you want the gift to be simultaneously harmless-looking and not harmless Dinner parties, specifically, where the title becomes a physical comedy opportunity before anyone opens it Gag gifts for anyone who works in food, hospitality, or anywhere that professional language occasionally creates situations Why Buy This Most produce does not generate this much conversation. Most produce is purchased, consumed, and never thought about again. Curtis is different. Curtis gets remembered. Curtis gets brought up at the next gathering as "remember that book about the cucumber?" and then everyone has to explain it to the one person who wasn't there, which creates a moment more valuable than most planned entertainment. For roughly the price of an actual cucumber from a grocery store... a considerably less interesting cucumber who will never generate this much discussion... you get a book that works at every dinner party, every white elephant event, and any situation where you need a gift that does more than exist. Curtis can't come to dinner. But the book can. And the book will outlast every vegetable in your refrigerator by several years. https://bradgosse.com/products/cucumber-curtis-cant-come-to-dinner-signed-copy?variant=44460101140783 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B095JK3ZS6.png?v=1675972092&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798510103373 B095JK3ZS6 543543 51166972707119 Dad Got Crabs: A Cautionary (and Itchy) Tale What do you get when you cross a wholesome children’s book with an STI scare, a suspicious motel visit, and seafood wordplay? You get “Dad Got Crabs”... a hilariously inappropriate adult cartoon book that looks innocent enough to read to your kids... until you actually open it. Presented in a bright, colorful, children’s picture book style, this MA-rated gag gift is definitely not for bedtime... unless your bedtime involves uncomfortable family secrets, shady fish markets, and a dad with a little too much explaining to do. This is not a book for the faint of heart, the easily offended, or anyone who still thinks Dad is a saint. But for everyone else? It’s pure gold. Here’s what you’ll get: A rhyming story full of euphemisms, denial, and scratchy consequences Full-page cartoon illustrations that look like a children’s book but scream “White Elephant party winner” A painfully funny reminder that seafood and secrecy do not mix The perfect cringe-worthy gift for that one friend who loves dark humor and bad decisions This book is the gift that keeps on itching. Whether you’re looking for the ultimate joke gift or a weirdly specific birthday gift for Dad (especially if he’s got a suspicious tan line and a sudden love of “the shore”), this cringe-fest of a picture book hits the spot. Perfect for: Funny book lovers with a twisted sense of humorWhite Elephant gift exchanges that need a guaranteed laughGag gifts for coworkers, in-laws, or your gross college roommateChristmas gifts for that uncle who laughs too hard at inappropriate jokesBachelor parties or divorce parties (yes, that’s a thing now) Anyone who deserves a humor book so uncomfortable, they'll need ointment after reading Because in the end, we’re not selling a book. We’re selling that moment of shocked laughter... that “I cannot believe someone published this” feeling that lives forever in a person’s memory (and possibly on their coffee table for years of awkward conversations). “Dad Got Crabs” is crude, clever, and crawling with comedy. It’s not for everyone... and that’s exactly why you’re going to love giving it. Warning: Contains adult humor, sexual innuendo, and a dad who just won’t stop making it worse. Buy a copy for yourself. Buy three more as gifts. Then maybe… go get checked. https://bradgosse.com/products/dad-got-crabs-signed-copy?variant=51166972707119 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/7b79d861a8f3ec007ac7807fb8b44091.png?v=1743863708&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0F3TTR1Z2 543543 50239508807983 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/dad-pregnancy-signed-copy?variant=50239508807983 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0C9S9CHS5.png?v=1720546000&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0C9S9CHS5 543543 44460103336239 Dad's A Cuck... A Family Situation Explained Clearly For The Children Who Deserve To Know Your mom is a hard worker. Your dad is a hard worker. They both take care of the house. And somewhere in the arrangement of how this household operates, a dynamic has emerged that this book is prepared to name directly while most conversations around the dinner table are not. Dad's a cuck. The book says so on the cover. The interior explains the situation with illustrated cartoon art and the patient clarity of a guide written for the child who is old enough to notice things but not old enough to have the vocabulary for what they're noticing. Now they have the vocabulary. This adult parody book takes a very specific and very modern relationship vocabulary word and places it inside the illustrated children's book format with the commitment of an author who decided the bit was worth executing fully. The result is dark, funny, and uncomfortably recognizable to anyone who has ever watched a relationship from the outside and understood more than they were meant to. Children understand more than they are meant to. This book meets them where they are. This Book IS For: Adults who have encountered the word in contemporary culture and appreciate seeing it deployed with maximum comedic commitment Anyone who finds the tension between children's book aesthetics and very adult content reliably funny Fans of dark humor about domestic situations that doesn't flinch from what it set up in the title Gift-givers who want to hand someone a book that explains a complicated situation simply, accurately, and via cartoon This Book Is NOT For: People who are personally navigating this situation and have not yet reached the stage where it's funny to them Dads who suspect this book may be about them and are right Readers who believe this specific word should be kept out of illustrated format for reasons they will not fully articulate Anyone giving a book gift to a family that is currently in mediation Appropriate For: Divorce parties, which have become a legitimate social occasion and deserve gifts that acknowledge the full context Bachelorette parties, specifically for the friend who kept saying she had a bad feeling about the relationship White elephant exchanges where the group is close enough that this is funny rather than concerning Gag gifts for the friend who has been explaining someone else's relationship dynamic for six months and is tired of being subtle Why Buy This Some situations require a book. Not a conversation, which can be interrupted. Not a text, which can be screenshot and distributed. Not a subtle hint, which can be ignored. A book. A physical, illustrated, clearly titled book that names the situation directly and can be handed to a person without saying another word. This is that book. It does the work you didn't want to do out loud. It costs what a sympathy card costs. It communicates significantly more than a sympathy card. And unlike a sympathy card, which acknowledges a situation without addressing it, this book addresses the situation clearly, with illustrations, and in rhyme. Dad's a cuck. The book is out. 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Inside you’ll find glossy, candy-colored art that looks innocent enough... until the jokes detonate. The tale swerves from mall lingerie to casserole-night introductions, park playdates, and that special moment when the “doll” starts acting less like a purchase and more like a problem. It’s satire with a sledgehammer: modern love, consumer cravings, and the world’s worst step-planning all collide in a brisk, bite-size read you can finish between texts from your group chat asking for the tea. You’re not buying a “book”; you’re buying the twelve to twenty minutes where your brain gets to stop doomscrolling and just cackle at someone else’s chaos. What You’ll Get (Besides Questionable Morals): Rhymes that behave until they don’t. Bouncy verse that marches you right into the punchlines. Cartoon art with a mean streak. Classic children’s-book style deployed for grown-up mischief. A compact, re-readable gag. Perfect for passing around at parties, then apologizing for later. That delicious “did they really print this?” feeling. We did. You’re welcome. Who Is This For? Dark-humor junkies who collect jokes the way other people collect gym memberships. Burned-out parents who need five minutes of laughter before the next snack negotiation. Adult children who have survived blended-family weirdness and came out sarcastic. Office goblins who weaponize coffee breaks with inappropriate read-alouds. Friends getting married, divorced, or “it’s complicated.” Yes, it plays in all weather. Occasions That Deserve this Disaster: White elephant exchanges where you’d like to be remembered and mildly blamed. Birthdays for the sibling who laughed at your childhood bangs. Bachelor/ette parties that need one (1) gloriously poor decision. Housewarmings, because every new home needs a questionable book on the coffee table. Office Secret Santa, when HR is technically on vacation. The Vibe: Cynical, self-deprecating, and proudly unserious. We’re not here to fix society; we’re here to roast it on low heat until it’s tender. The narrative stares directly at the mess... online shopping, instant gratification, awkward introductions to the kids, and winks. If you’ve ever been the person who says “this is fine” while everything is clearly not fine, you’ll feel seen. And gently judged. How to Read It: Pop it open at a party and perform your worst bedtime-voice. Gift it to the friend who insists they’re “so over drama” and then texts you screenshots at 2 a.m. Place it on your coffee table and watch guests pretend they’re not dying to peek. Re-read when life is chaotic and you need to laugh at a fictional family so you don’t cry at your own. No moral. No tidy bow. Just a fast, funny story that lets you feel a little lighter for a minute. That’s the whole point. Buy it for the art, keep it for the snort-laugh you’ll attempt to hide and absolutely fail to contain. Because sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is hold a ridiculous book and laugh like you mean it. https://bradgosse.com/products/dads-new-doll-you-can-call-her-mom-signed-copy?variant=51978889265455 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/9d52570e7467f805d54ac9a0036250e8.png?v=1761974643&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FYBZK7HL 543543 50679061217583 Dad's Pussy Magnet... The Car Dad Calls By A Name That Requires Explanation To The Neighbors Timmy heard Dad say it, clear as a bell. Dad was talking about his car. Specifically, Dad was explaining that his car is a pussy magnet, which is information that Timmy is now carrying around and will need to process at some point. The cats in the neighborhood have certainly noticed the vehicle. The neighbors have noticed the cats. This book documents the full ecosystem that has developed around Dad's car and his assessment of its particular properties, with illustrated cartoon art and the tone of a boy who is slowly understanding things he was not quite ready to understand. This adult parody book operates on a double-meaning that it commits to with complete consistency. The magnet attracts cats. The car is the magnet. Every sentence is technically about automotive appeal to the feline community. Whatever else you think is happening is your interpretation and you own it. Dad is just proud of his car. The cats agree it is exceptional. Timmy is learning things. The neighborhood is watching. This Book IS For: Adults who have ever had to explain something to a child using technically accurate language that was not the whole story Fans of double-meaning humor where both meanings are fully developed and both meanings make complete sense Anyone who has a family member who says things in mixed company that require immediate context management Gift-givers who want to hand a book to someone at a family gathering and watch the room sort itself into two camps This Book Is NOT For: People who believe automotive pride should be expressed in ways that don't create these specific downstream complications Anyone who has actual cats and feels protective of them as a demographic Readers who need their humor to have only one interpretation so they know exactly which one to have Dads who have used this phrase and have not yet assessed the consequences with full information Appropriate For: Father's Day gifts... this is in fact perfect for Father's Day and you already know if your dad would appreciate it White elephant exchanges that include at least one person who will read the title aloud before opening it Gag gifts for the car enthusiast in your life who also has a sense of humor that extends to their own self-image Any occasion where you want to give something to a dad that acknowledges he is, at minimum, a lot Why Buy This Father's Day is a holiday built on the foundation of gifts that are either practical or sentimental and rarely interesting. Ties. Tools. Grilling accessories. Golf items for dads who do not golf but have been given golf items anyway since 1994. This book is none of those things. This book is a gift that tells Dad you see him, you know exactly what kind of person he is, and you found a book that matches. Timmy is learning things. Dad is proud of his car. The neighborhood cats have opinions. For the cost of a mid-range fast food order, you get a story that everyone in the house will have a reaction to, which is more than can be said for any tie currently on the market. Dad's car is a pussy magnet. The book makes it official. https://bradgosse.com/products/dads-pussy-magnet?variant=50679061217583 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0DJS2V8M3.png?v=1731102248&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0DJS2V8M3 543543 50840090018095 Welcome to the family drama you didn’t know you needed, but definitely can’t look away from. Dad’s Secret Family is the awkwardly hilarious, DNA-test-disaster of a story that dives into what happens when the man who heads your household… also heads someone else’s. Or several someone elses, actually. It all starts innocently enough. Dad’s job has him flying all over the map, and none of the family bats an eye. He’s working hard, providing for everyone, and just doing what dads do—right? Well, that’s what we thought. But then things start to unravel, beginning with a surprise DNA test that unearths a pile of lies so high it makes Mount Everest look like a speed bump. Turns out, Dad’s not just a hardworking man with a demanding job—he’s also a man with an entirely separate family. Actually, make that families, plural. Half-sisters, half-brothers, even a random cat are suddenly thrown into the mix. As the layers of deceit peel back, we discover that Dad’s been running a full-on secret family empire. And just when we think it can’t get more ridiculous, we meet Mom’s new reality: she’s now got more support than a Brony convention, while Dad’s got more explaining to do than a politician at a scandal hearing. This book chronicles the fallout with unapologetic humor and a hefty dose of absurdity. Family gatherings become sitcom gold as siblings from every corner of the globe meet, greet, and attempt to make sense of the world’s most tangled family tree. We’re talking sister-wives, surprise aunts, and a half-brother who might also be a lawyer (convenient, considering Dad’s sudden legal troubles). Oh, and did we mention Dad’s newfound fame as a daytime talk show guest? Turns out, there’s always a TV audience hungry for a “man caught in his own web of lies” saga. Watching him try to explain his addiction to secrecy is both cringe-worthy and comedy gold. 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Please Read The Full Title Before Forming An Opinion Mom is going out with the girls. Nobody knows how the evening will unfold. Dad and daughter are home. Dad has a plan. The plan involves dinner. The plan involves an activity that has been described as a "date" in the way that dads sometimes describe things using vocabulary that sounds alarming until you understand the context, and then sounds completely fine, and then sounds alarming again because the cultural moment around that phrase is what it is. This book walks you through the evening and clarifies, repeatedly, exactly what it seems like and exactly why it's different from that. This illustrated adult parody book exists in the territory between a completely innocent family evening and the headline that a completely innocent family evening can accidentally generate in 2024. It is a book about a dad who takes his daughter out for dinner and a movie. The joke is the gap between what the title implies and what is actually happening, and the book mines that gap with consistency and cartoon art and the patient energy of a father who has had to explain this to several people and is getting tired of it. This Book IS For: Parents who have navigated the modern experience of doing something entirely normal and having it sound like something it isn't Fans of comedy that derives its energy entirely from context and the gap between implication and reality Anyone who has had to preemptively clarify something innocent and found the clarification more exhausting than the original situation Gift-givers who want a book that makes someone do a double-take at the title before getting the full picture This Book Is NOT For: People who read the title once and formed an opinion they are not willing to revise even after reading the subtitle Anyone who has ever posted a photo of a normal family outing and felt they needed extensive captions to protect themselves Readers who need their comedy clearly labeled before they engage with it so they know which reaction to have Dads who have been in this exact situation and still have not recovered enough to find it funny Appropriate For: Father's Day... genuinely one of the more perfect Father's Day gifts depending entirely on the dad White elephant exchanges where reading the title aloud to the group is half the gift Baby showers for people expecting daughters, because this is their future and they should be prepared Any occasion where the gift should cause a reaction that requires the recipient to explain it to multiple people Why Buy This The funniest thing about this book is that it documents something that is simply a dad taking his daughter out to dinner, and the funniest thing about that is that "simply a dad taking his daughter out to dinner" has become a phrase that requires the subtitle "It's Not What It Seems" to navigate the current cultural landscape without incident. That is genuinely funnier than anything the book itself could have invented. Buy it for a dad who has experienced this phenomenon. Buy it for a dad who hasn't experienced it yet but will. Buy it for anyone who finds the modern experience of doing normal things in a world that has strong opinions about everything both exhausting and, at the right distance, extremely funny. The evening is fine. The title is the whole joke. It is a very good joke. https://bradgosse.com/products/daddy-daughter-date-night-its-not-what-it-seems-signed-copy?variant=44460117229871 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B085KBRYDG.png?v=1675972338&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798622801198 B085KBRYDG 543543 44460111429935 Daddy's A SIMP: Don't Expect Much Inheritance... A Financial Warning In Book Form Dad lost mom. Dad got back on his feet. Dad found someone new. So far so good. Then he bought her a house. This book covers what happened in between those events and why you should probably lower your expectations about the will. Illustrated with cartoon art and told with the kind of blunt honesty that only comes from something that has nothing to lose, this is the story of a grown man making choices that technically no one can stop him from making. It is his money. He is just very bad at having it. 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In the tradition of Edward Gorey's illustrated dark humor and every other artist who has taken the macabre and found the comedy inside it, this book continues a series that has apparently found its audience... which tells you something about the audience, and probably something about you for being on this page. It is not for children. It is for adults who have processed mortality enough to find the absurdist angle and find that angle more useful than pretending it isn't there. The artwork is cartoon. The subjects are not available for comment. 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Every culture across every century has told stories about death in a way that makes the telling bearable. This book is in that tradition, produced with cartoon art instead of cave paintings, and sold for roughly what a medium popcorn costs at a movie theater that will show you death with much more budget and considerably less honesty about what it's doing. Volume two exists because volume one existed and people wanted more, which says everything that needs to be said about the audience for this work and their excellent judgment. Buy it individually. Buy it as part of a set. Give it to someone who will have the laugh that comes before the self-assessment and then decide the laugh was worth it. It always is. That's why there are multiple volumes. https://bradgosse.com/products/dead-babies-2-a-series-of-short-life-stories-signed-copy?variant=44460113461551 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HJ5HGR8.png?v=1675972276&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798682633906 B08HJ5HGR8 543543 44460117492015 Dead Babies 3: A Series Of Short Life Stories... Volume Three, Because The First Two Weren't Enough For Some People Marcus got into a game of William Tell that went poorly by any measure of poorly. Another subject in this volume had an encounter with a refrigerator that nobody saw coming. Each character gets their page. Each story concludes. The book keeps going, because this is volume three of a series, which means at some point someone looked at the sales data for volumes one and two and made a decision to continue. That decision has been made. The series continues. More subjects. Same arc. The cartoon art remains cheerful. The subject matter remains what it is. This is adult parody dark humor in the direct lineage of illustrated macabre comedy, and by volume three it has established enough of a pattern that you know exactly what you're getting, which is either reassuring or concerning depending on how you feel about knowing exactly what you're getting from a book called Dead Babies 3. The subjects were real characters for their brief time in print. Their stories are complete. They would probably want you to buy the book, if they could have opinions about things, which they cannot, which is the whole premise. 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This exists. It has a spine and pages and can be purchased and shipped and placed on a shelf next to volumes one and two. The shelf now contains a complete trilogy about a subject that most shelves do not address directly, and that shelf is considerably more interesting than any shelf that contains only books about things that end well. It costs what a moderately sized coffee costs. It produces significantly more conversation than any coffee, both during the reading and for a substantial period afterward. That is exceptional value for a book in any genre, and particularly exceptional for a book in a genre this specific. Marcus should not have agreed to the William Tell game. The refrigerator situation was preventable. The book is honest about both. 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Written with the cheerful detachment of someone narrating a nature documentary and illustrated with cartoon art, this sits comfortably in the tradition of dark humor that polite society permits but will not read on public transit. Read it privately. Tell people you loved it. They will want to know more. This Book IS For: Fans of illustrated dark comedy who want something direct about it People who laugh at things they know they probably should not Anyone with a morbid streak and a small amount of disposable income Gift-givers who enjoy watching someone's expression shift in stages This Book Is NOT For: People who have ever demanded a manager for any reason Readers who leave one-star reviews because a book was not what they expected Anyone whose sense of humor stops at "mildly edgy" Parenting influencers who have taken a public stand on something recently Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where you want to win by making everyone uncomfortable Bachelorette parties for the friend with the taxidermy collection Gag gifts for people with genuinely dark and specific taste Any occasion where the card aisle felt profoundly inadequate Why Buy This Instead Of A Card A greeting card communicates that you thought of someone for forty-five seconds in a drugstore aisle. This book communicates that you actually know the person. That you know what they find funny. That you have been paying attention. That distinction matters more than people admit. It costs about the same. One ends up in a landfill before the month is out. The other ends up on a shelf, or handed to someone equally deserving, or read aloud at a party until someone has to leave the room. You will get more mileage from a book that causes a scene than from a card no one remembers by Tuesday. https://bradgosse.com/products/dead-babies-a-series-of-short-life-stories-signed-copy?variant=44460104483119 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0851LN6GW.png?v=1675972146&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798616968180 B0851LN6GW 543543 50239509725487 Diddler On The Roof... Tradition! (Of A Sort That The Original Musical Did Not Cover) In a town where nights were deep, a boy couldn't sleep. There was something on the roof. Something with habits. 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This adult parody book addresses the concept of personal boundaries with specific adults through the format typically used to explain those concepts to children, because apparently the format intended for adults has not been sufficiently persuasive in Joe's case. It is dark. It is funny. It is the kind of book that makes you laugh and then briefly wonder if you should be laughing, and then the cartoon of Uncle Joe makes you laugh again before you can finish that thought. The boundary, notably, has not yet been set. This Book IS For: Adults who have a specific uncle, or uncle-equivalent figure, whose presence in certain spaces has been repeatedly discussed Anyone who has had to explain to another adult, using simple language, why something is not acceptable Fans of dark humor that is specific enough to be recognizable and general enough to apply to multiple people in your life simultaneously Gift-givers who want to send a message and have decided a book is less confrontational than a direct conversation This Book Is NOT For: People named Joe who feel this is a generalization and resent the implication Anyone who believes Uncle Joe's version of why he got fired and has said so publicly at family events Readers who want their humor entirely separate from any recognizable domestic situation they may currently be living in Family members who have been asked to "just let it go" and are in fact letting it go just fine, thank you Appropriate For: Family gatherings where this book can be left conspicuously visible without requiring a direct conversation White elephant exchanges among families who have at least one shared reference point for Uncle Joe energy Gag gifts for anyone navigating an overfamiliar adult relationship with someone who does not read the room Any occasion that calls for a gift that says something specific without the giver having to say it out loud Why Buy This Some conversations cannot be had. 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The book is right. https://bradgosse.com/products/dont-bathe-with-uncle-joe-setting-boundaries-with-adults-signed-copy?variant=44460101370159 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/165918925X.png?v=1675972099&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9781659189254 165918925X 543543 44460111790383 Donkeybear: The Story Of Inbreeding... A Genetics Lesson With Uncomfortable Family Implications Sometimes your mom is something more than just your mom. She may be your cousin. This makes certain family dynamics considerably more complicated, and those complications compound across generations in ways that Donkeybear embodies completely. Donkeybear is the product of a specific series of choices made by people who were, based on the evidence before them, not thinking about the long game. Donkeybear exists. Donkeybear is unique. Donkeybear is, in many ways, exactly what you'd expect from the circumstances that produced him, and the book documents this with cartoon art and the patient neutrality of a genetics textbook that has fully accepted what the data shows. This adult parody book takes a subject that most illustrated books avoid with complete determination... the hereditary consequences of romantic choices made within an uncomfortably small gene pool... and addresses it head-on with rhyme, cartoon animals, and the specific energy of a book that decided to go there and isn't coming back. Donkeybear is unique. Not all forms of unique are equally intentional. The book is honest about which kind this is. 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You can buy it, read it in four minutes, and then spend the next four hours thinking about what you just read, which is frankly the best return on investment biology has ever offered. https://bradgosse.com/products/donkeybear-the-story-of-inbreeding-signed-copy?variant=44460111790383 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B084DD8Y41.png?v=1675972250&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798610236995 B084DD8Y41 543543 50692691689775 Meet Doug, the pug with a passion so specific, it’s downright absurd. Doug the Carpet Munching Pug takes you on a hilariously inappropriate journey through the life of a dog who’s more interested in destroying floor decor than chasing tennis balls. If you’ve ever wondered, “Can a dog develop an obsession with carpet fibers?” the answer is a resounding (and cringeworthy) yes. Doug isn’t just a carpet-muncher; he’s a carpet-devouring connoisseur. 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Whether it’s the crunch of carpet fibers at lunch or his triumphant sprints across the house with a mouth full of rug, Doug’s adventures are both jaw-dropping and laugh-out-loud ridiculous. This book isn’t just a story—it’s a wild ride of rhymes and hilariously over-the-top illustrations that push the limits of what a gag gift can get away with. Doug’s journey is perfect for those who revel in humor that’s so outrageous it might make you question your morals (and your taste in books). Looking for the ultimate prank gift? A surefire way to derail a white elephant exchange? Or maybe just a reason to laugh at something so absurd it defies logic? Doug the Carpet Munching Pug is the answer. Whether it’s for that friend with a dark sense of humor or someone who doesn’t realize what they’re about to unwrap, this book guarantees reactions ranging from stunned silence to uncontrollable laughter. Doug isn’t just a pug—he’s a legend. 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The form it takes when it arrives is what the book documents, with illustrated cartoon art and the specific resignation of a child who has learned to locate their parents in the stands by sound before sight. This adult parody book is for everyone who grew up with a dad like this, loves a dad like this, is related to a dad like this, or has encountered a dad like this at a youth sporting event and spent the following forty-five minutes pretending not to know which sideline contained their own family. The Dad in this book means well. The data supports this. The execution of meaning-well is the full subject matter, documented across illustrated pages with the accuracy of a sports film that cannot afford to pull its punches. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up with a dad who showed up to everything and made "showing up" a complicated concept Parents who have witnessed the sideline behavior of other parents and recognized something uncomfortably familiar Fans of comedy that finds the love inside the dysfunction without pretending the dysfunction isn't there Gift-givers attending a Father's Day event where at least one person in the room will recognize their own father This Book Is NOT For: Youth sports coaches who are currently managing an active sideline situation involving a parent with a cooler Dads who do not drink and believe this stereotype is unfair to dads everywhere and would like to discuss it Anyone who needs their sports-dad content to end with a warm conversation and a moment of growth People whose experience with this archetype is too recent and too specific to be at the comedy stage yet Appropriate For: Father's Day... the most accurate Father's Day gift for a specific type of father who exists widely White elephant exchanges at any event where a majority of attendees played youth sports End-of-season sports team parties where the parents have spent enough time on sidelines to appreciate this Gag gifts for the dad himself, if the relationship is close enough to absorb the recognition Why Buy This Father's Day is an industry built on the premise that dads need gifts that acknowledge their role. 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A Leadership Briefing In Illustrated Form Right now we just don't have enough tests, but we're offering medical testing in dirty parking lots at the same stores with all the toilet paper you bought. The words in this book are tremendous words. The best words. World class. The leader of this book has spoken to his CEO friends... the best people, tremendous people... and they haven't done a thing, which is fine, because the important thing is commending their efforts. We've frozen interest on student loans. You still have to pay tuition even though school is out. After all, money is what this country is about. Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated. This book knew. This book has written it all down in illustrated cartoon form for posterity. This adult parody book is a satire of a very specific leadership voice during a very specific national emergency, rendered in the illustrated children's book format that, it turns out, is the exact right container for this particular rhetorical style. The confidence is there. The logic is there. The tremendous funeral homes are mentioned. The big check written on the White House lawn that we can't cash is illustrated. History is documented. The documentation is funny in the way that history is funny when you are safely on the other side of it. This Book IS For: Adults who lived through the specific news cycle this book documents and processed it primarily through disbelief and dark humor Fans of political satire that quotes directly from the source material and trusts the reader to do the rest of the work Anyone who collected screenshots during a particular era of press conferences and would like the illustrated book version Gift-givers with a specific recipient in mind and a specific point to make about recent history This Book Is NOT For: People who believe this particular leadership style was being unfairly characterized when characterized as tremendous Readers who find political satire divisive regardless of how accurate the source material being satirized is Anyone who has lost the ability to find this era funny because the era has not yet acquired the necessary historical distance Tremendous people who are the best in the world and do not find this treatment consistent with their brand Appropriate For: Political comedy fans who want a physical artifact from the era to keep on a shelf next to the newspaper clippings White elephant exchanges among people whose political alignment makes this book universally understood Gag gifts for anyone who watched the press conferences and needed somewhere to put the experience other than a Twitter thread History buffs who prefer their historical documentation in illustrated satirical cartoon format Why Buy This History is being written all the time. Most of the documentation is long, dense, and requires considerable commitment to read cover to cover. This book is short, illustrated, and documents a very specific rhetorical style during a very specific national emergency with the accuracy of satire that uses the actual quotes and trusts them to do the satirical work themselves. The tremendous funeral homes are there. The dirty parking lot testing is there. The big check is there. Everything is tremendous. It's all been handled. Buy it for someone who needs the physical artifact. Buy it for someone whose political book collection has a specific gap only this illustrated parody can fill. Buy it because at this price it is the most efficient way to own a document of a specific moment in leadership history in a format that can be read aloud at a gathering and understood by everyone in the room immediately. The words were always the best words. The book has written them down. Tremendous. https://bradgosse.com/products/everythings-tremendous-were-the-best-in-the-world-signed-copy?variant=44460113166639 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B085R72M83.png?v=1675972268&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798624668058 B085R72M83 543543 50840090050863 Welcome to the twisted tale of a man so unhinged, so greased up, and so unapologetically ridiculous that he managed to turn baby oil into his personal empire. Freak Off Party: The Legend of Dirty Old Diddy is a chaotic ride through the life of a man who took the phrase “slippery slope” a little too literally. Dirty Old Diddy wasn’t your average billionaire. While other tycoons spent their fortunes on yachts and spaceships, Diddy built his empire on something simpler: a mountain of baby oil and a playlist of curse-filled party anthems. His infamous Freak Off Parties were the stuff of urban legend—an unholy combination of dance floors so slippery they doubled as lawsuit factories, and chaos so rampant it made frat parties look like Sunday school. It all started with a simple idea: “What if I could make everyone slip and curse at the same time?” From there, Dirty Old Diddy’s legacy took off like a greased pig at a county fair. He hosted extravagant parties with enough baby oil to lubricate an entire train yard, inviting anyone foolish enough to step onto his glistening, chaos-soaked dance floors. “Come one, come all!” he’d shout with a grin, as guests face-planted into oily oblivion. The parties became legendary, but so did the carnage. Broken bones, destroyed dignity, and enough expletives to fill an entire playlist. Diddy’s events weren’t just gatherings—they were full-blown disasters. Yet, the allure of his wild escapades was impossible to resist. Until, of course, it all fell apart. When a particularly slippery Freak Off Party led to a girl spilling tea (in every sense of the word), the authorities finally decided enough was enough. The cops crashed one of Diddy’s infamous gatherings, only to find him sliding across the floor in his signature white suit, cursing up a storm. But Diddy wasn’t going down without a fight. He fled the scene, jetting off to a remote island in a grease-slick private plane, leaving his oily mess behind. Unfortunately for Diddy, the long arm of the law doesn’t stop at customs. He was extradited back to face his crimes, where his attempt to explain his “Freak Off matters” only made things worse. The media had a field day with headlines like, “Baby Oil Billionaire Got Freaked Off Tonight!” and “Slippery When Guilty!” This is a book for those who appreciate humor as slick as baby oil and chaos as unstoppable as a greased bowling ball. Freak Off Party: The Legend of Dirty Old Diddy takes absurdity to new heights (or lows, depending on your perspective). It’s the perfect gift for that one friend who loves dark humor, lives for cringe-worthy stories, and thrives on the ridiculous. Whether you’re buying this for a white elephant party, a gag gift, or just to ruin someone’s day, Freak Off Party is guaranteed to slide its way into infamy. After all, it’s not just a book—it’s a slippery reminder that some people really will do anything for a party. Get your copy today. Just make sure to read it somewhere non-slip. You’ve been warned. https://bradgosse.com/products/freak-off-party-the-legend-of-dirty-ole-diddy-signed-copy?variant=50840090050863 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0DR2X69QM.png?v=1735398945&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0DR2X69QM 543543 51939987685679 Frosty the Blowman: A Delightfully Bad Influence in a Very Nice Children’s Book Costume (For Adults Who Laugh at the Wrong Parts) You know those wholesome winter stories where everyone learns a valuable lesson about friendship and hot cocoa? Yeah… this isn’t that. Frosty the Blowman is a hold-my-mittens parody that looks like a cheery kids’ book, reads like a song, and then proceeds to sled straight into the snowbank of terrible decisions... all for the sake of a laugh. It’s satire with earmuffs on: bright pictures, playful rhyme, and a holiday mascot who’s one peppermint stick short of a candy cane. This is a book about grown-up ridiculousness, wrapped in a picture-book style that your inner eight-year-old recognizes and your actual adult brain knows better than to take seriously. Think: colorful panels, bouncy rhymes, and an avalanche of bad choices rendered so innocently you can almost hear a school assembly gasp. Spoiler: no morals are learned. But chuckles? Those arrive by the shovelful. What You’re Really Buying Not hype. Not wisdom. Not a warm hug from a snowman who respects boundaries. You’re buying the experience of laughter... that wheezy, “I should not be laughing at this” cough-snickering that makes December office parties survivable and January tolerable. The payoff is simple: open book, read rhymes, snort-laugh (purely metaphorical), feel better about your life choices because at least you’re not a cartoon snowman with impulse control issues. Inside the Icy Chaos Full-color comic-style pages that look suspiciously wholesome until your brain registers the jokes. Rhyming verses that bounce like a sugar rush and bite like a cold wind. A holiday-world roast that pokes fun at seasonal parties, small talk, and the way cheer sometimes needs a helmet. A finale so over-the-top you’ll close the book and whisper, “I need to make better friends,” while texting five people to read it immediately. Who Is This For? Secret Santa assassins White Elephant masters Office trouble-makers Friends with dark humor Siblings Party hosts Occasions That Beg for Bad Ideas Holiday parties where the cookie tray is the only thing holding morale together. Stocking stuffers for adults who already own socks, candles, and crippling sarcasm. Birthdays of people who say “don’t get me anything” (they deserve this). New Year’s gatherings where resolutions go to freeze to death. Any Tuesday that needs rescuing. Why This Works (Against Your Better Judgment) Because the art is adorably clean, the rhyme is shamelessly catchy, and the jokes commit. It’s the wholesome aesthetic smashed against cynical humor... the comedy equivalent of wearing a bow tie to cause trouble. The contrast is the point, and the point is to laugh even if your conscience crosses its arms. If satire is a mirror, this one’s frosted over and grinning. Give It, Get It, Regret Nothing Frosty the Blowman is that one gift people remember, possibly against their will. Wrap it for coworkers you like, frenemies you love to confuse, or the one friend who hears the word “festive” and asks for a helmet. You bring the book. We’ll bring the laugh attack. If joy is a substance, this is the legal kind: printed, stapled, and waiting to be inhaled through the eyes. https://bradgosse.com/products/frosty-the-blowman-signed-copy?variant=51939987685679 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/424d919204d293223c2b67a6a3a38480.png?v=1760794704&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FWW7686K 543543 51742842552623 Funny Book of the Month Club... For People Who’ve Truly Given UpCongratulations. You’ve found the only subscription box that doesn’t pretend to make your life better. Welcome to the Funny Book of the Month Club - a monthly reminder that your standards are either impressively low or dangerously ironic.Here’s how this literary roulette works: once a month (because we wouldn’t dare burden you more often), you’ll receive whatever new abomination Brad Gosse has coughed up. Yes, it’ll be the latest release - whether it’s a joke book about emotionally distant dads, or a kids’ parody that should never be read to actual children. You don’t choose the book. The book chooses you. Kind of like depression.You Don’t Get to Choose... And That’s the Whole PointEach month, you’ll receive a brand-new Brad Gosse book that you didn’t ask for and couldn’t have predicted. It’s a complete surprise, which is either exciting or terrifying depending on how much trust you’ve misplaced in this process. You won’t know the title, the topic, or how badly it will ruin your next coffee table conversation until it shows up. But here’s what you can count on: it will be one of Brad’s latest releases, hot off the press and personally autographed like a signed confession of creative misconduct. This isn’t a curated experience. This is a literary gamble. And you’re all in.What’s Included?The newest signed Brad Gosse book, straight from the printer and into your downward spiral.Autographed - because if you're going to own garbage, it might as well be signed garbage.Stickers - for decorating your laptop, your water bottle, or the police report.Limited edition prints - stuff you'll look at once, question your life, and then misplace forever.Random exclusive weirdness - because even we don’t know what’s coming next. Could be a bookmark. Could be a restraining order. Who knows?Why Subscribe?Maybe you hate yourself just enough. Maybe you need a monthly gift to remind your therapist why they charge you double. Maybe you want to horrify friends and family with the worst gag gift imaginable. Whatever your motivation, the Funny Book of the Month Club is here to deliver fresh printed regret every damn month - worldwide and shipping free.Think of it like a streaming subscription, if they sent you a physical envelope filled with bad decisions and poor life choices instead of digital distractions. Perfect For:White elephant exchanges you don’t want to be invited back toRuining Secret Santa for someone in HRCollectors of questionable life decisionsYour inner nihilist who’s tired of pretendingBonus Junk You Didn’t Know You NeededEvery book comes with weird little extras that make you question the nature of value. We’re talking signed prints, offensive stickers, or maybe even a one-of-a-kind drawing or handwritten poem scrawled during a caffeine-induced spiral. 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If your book arrives damaged or doesn't arrive at all, we will rush out a replacement.Subscribe now!Become part of an elite club of people who’ve accepted that life is meaningless, but at least comes with stickers.One new autographed disaster. Every month. No hope. Just comedy. https://bradgosse.com/products/humor-book-of-the-month-club?variant=51742842552623 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/icon.png?v=1754573453&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 543543 44460111593775 Furious George Tears Off Your Mother's Face... A Different Kind Of Curious Monkeys are cute. This is a fact that everyone accepts and that has been reinforced by decades of illustrated books about a specific curious monkey who gets into mild adventures and learns things. The monkey your mom brought home is not that monkey. That monkey has a different energy entirely. That monkey has made decisions that cannot be undone. Furious George does not learn lessons. Furious George delivers consequences, starting with your mother's face, and working outward from there with the focused energy of an animal that was never domesticated and should not have been presented as an option. This adult parody book is the corrective to decades of cheerful primate representation in children's literature. It takes the familiar format... curious monkey, well-meaning adult, urban setting... and follows the realistic trajectory of what would actually happen if you brought a primate into a domestic environment and gave it access to your household. The answer is in the title. The illustrations commit to the answer. The book does not suggest returning the monkey. This Book IS For: Adults who aged out of the original Curious George series and needed to know how it really ends Anyone who has watched a nature documentary about primates and immediately understood why they do not make good pets Fans of parody that takes a beloved source material and follows its darkest logical implication without flinching Gift-givers who want to update a childhood classic with the information the original author declined to include This Book Is NOT For: People who consider the Curious George IP sacred and are prepared to defend it in this specific context Anyone currently caring for a primate for any reason and finding the premise personally stressful Readers who need the monkey to be redeemable by the final page and the face situation to resolve positively Parents who use the original series as a bedtime book and cannot afford to have it recontextualized tonight Appropriate For: Millennial gift exchanges where everyone grew up with the source material and can appreciate the departure White elephant events where the goal is to produce the most memorable unwrapping reaction of the evening Gag gifts for the friend who has always had questions about why the man in the yellow hat thought this was fine Anyone who believes children's classics deserve more realistic follow-ups than the genre typically provides Why Buy This The original Curious George books collectively cost more than this book and end the same way every time: George causes a problem, George accidentally solves a different problem, everyone is charmed, no one addresses the underlying issue that George is a wild primate living in an apartment. This book addresses the underlying issue. This book is the therapy the Curious George universe has been avoiding for eighty years. Buy it for someone who read the originals as a child and has a healthy adult relationship with the fact that those books were not realistic. Buy it for someone who has always found the man in the yellow hat's enthusiasm for George slightly alarming in retrospect. Buy it as the final chapter in a childhood reading experience that needed closure. Your mother's face needed to be in the title. It was always going to end this way. https://bradgosse.com/products/furious-george-tears-off-your-mothers-face-signed-copy?variant=44460111593775 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08QRVHWVC.png?v=1675972244&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798581915509 B08QRVHWVC 543543 50240074547503 Girl Math... A New And Superior Approach To Financial Decision-Making That Absolutely Works Out In the land where shopping is a sport and numbers are more of a suggestion than a constraint, a new kind of mathematics has emerged. If you return something, the refund is free money. If something is on sale, you saved money by buying it. If you spend a lot at once, the individual items are basically free when divided by the total. These are not rationalizations. These are the principles of Girl Math, and they are documented here with illustrated cartoon art and the confidence of a system that has never once been successfully challenged in a real-time argument. This adult parody book is a love letter and a gentle documentation of a cultural moment... the internet phenomenon of financial logic that makes perfect internal sense and does not survive contact with an accountant. It is funny because it is recognizable. It is recognizable because everyone has either used this logic or watched someone use it with total conviction. The book does not judge. The book documents. The ledger may not balance, but the reasoning is airtight. This Book IS For: Anyone who has ever divided a purchase price by uses-per-year to justify a buying decision and found the result satisfying People who understand instinctively that returning something is not the same as not buying something Fans of humor that is funny because it is true and not funny because it exaggerates anything Gift-givers who want to hand someone something they will immediately send to three friends who need it more This Book Is NOT For: Financial advisors who have a blood pressure situation when encountering this kind of logic in a client meeting Anyone who finds this humor reductive and would like to have a broader conversation about economic systems People who have never once purchased something they did not strictly need and are very proud of this Anyone expecting the book to reach a conclusion where the math is corrected and traditional accounting restored Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... girl math is practically the bachelorette party financial model anyway White elephant exchanges among people who have all had the girl math conversation at least once Gifts for anyone who works in retail and has watched this reasoning unfold in real time Any occasion where you want to give someone a book that makes them laugh and immediately do the math on how cheap it was Why Buy This Here is the girl math on buying this book: it costs very little, which means you basically saved money by buying it. If you give it as a gift, the cost per laugh generated is essentially zero. If it gets passed around at a party and read aloud, the entertainment value per dollar spent approaches infinite. The gift is free. You made money doing this. That is not only correct but is the only reasonable interpretation of the financial data available. Buy it for someone who will appreciate it. Buy it for someone who won't and needs it more. Buy multiple copies because the per-unit cost goes down at volume, which means each additional copy you buy is essentially saving you money, which means buying this book indefinitely is the financially responsible decision. Girl math. It works every time. The book proves it. https://bradgosse.com/products/girl-math-signed-copy?variant=50240074547503 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CMCRHKRR.png?v=1720546666&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798352186008 B0CMCRHKRR 543543 44460110381359 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/girls-i-stopped-following-for-you-signed-copy?variant=44460110381359 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09R3LRHLB.png?v=1675972214&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B09R3LRHLB 543543 53277221683503 Give Ahead with Becky the Prodigal Goat: The Only Business Book That Gets Straight to the Point. Look, another "children's book for adults." Just what the world needed. But if you've always suspected that getting ahead in the corporate world involves more than just "hard work" and "synergy meetings," then buckle up, buttercup. This isn't your grandma's pastel-colored guide to "finding your purpose." This is the real, unvarnished (and slightly sticky) truth, brightly illustrated with... well, goats. Tired of those bland, sanitized career guides that tell you to "lean in" and "find your purpose"? We were too. That's why we greenlit (with significant reservations) Give Ahead with Becky the Prodigal Goat, a highly questionable yet disturbingly accurate exposé masquerading as a charming storybook for... not children. It's less about climbing the ladder, and more about what you might have to do *on* the ladder, or perhaps *under* it, to get to the top. Follow Becky, a truly ambitious goat, as she navigates the sticky corporate ladder with a tenacious spirit and an impressive array of "talents." From "opening up wide" for big tasks to "polishing knobs" until they gleam, Becky demonstrates a unique, hands-on approach to career advancement that would make most HR departments spontaneously combust. It's a journey of self-discovery, corporate synergy, and maybe a few things that'll make you wonder about your own rise to power. Just try not to make eye contact with your coworkers after reading it. Why You Are Considering This (We Won't Judge): White Elephant gift exchange where you want to be remembered (and possibly disinvited from future events). That passive-aggressive retirement gift for a colleague you secretly suspect has been Becky all along. A baby shower where you're trying to send a subtle, yet deeply unsettling, message. An urgent need to explain "synergy" to someone using only goats and suggestive imagery. You've read Goodnight Moon one too many times and need something, anything, else. Who Is This For? Disenchanted office drones with a dark sense of humor. Anyone who secretly believes "networking" is just a fancy word for "what Becky does." Parents who need a laugh after reading actual children's books for 12 hours straight. Enthusiasts of politically incorrect satire and subversive comedy. Individuals who peaked in middle school but still appreciate a good double entendre. So, if you're ready to embrace the questionable wisdom of the corporate jungle, or simply need proof that someone out there is as messed up as you are, then click "Add to Cart." We're not saying it's art, but it's definitely something. Don't say we didn't warn you. https://bradgosse.com/products/give-ahead-get-ahead-with-becky-the-throat-goat-signed-copy?variant=53277221683503 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/1191a86743655d366e42da11dad86935.png?v=1769603744&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0GK6TNYT8 543543 44460117098799 Introducing "Gluck Gluck 3000" – A Hilarious and Outrageous Adult Parody That Will Leave You in Stitches!Dive into the whimsical and satirical world of "Gluck Gluck 3000," where job automation takes an unexpected turn and life at home gets even more bizarre! This adult cartoon book, styled in a playful children's format, delivers humor, irony, and a touch of scandal that’s sure to keep you entertained.Mom loves her job painting toys for children around the world, but when a new boss introduces a painting robot, her world is turned upside down. Follow her emotional journey from the assembly line to an unexpected discovery at home that redefines "surprise ending."Perfect for:Fans of dark humor and satire who enjoy a good laughAnyone looking for a unique and edgy giftReaders who appreciate clever, unconventional storytellingThose who love a mix of humor and social commentaryWhy You’ll Love This Book:Quirky Storyline: Explore the funny side of automation and its impact on family life.Vibrant Illustrations: Each page bursts with colorful, engaging artwork.Gift-Worthy: A perfect gag gift for friends, coworkers, or anyone with a sense of humor.Thought-Provoking: A humorous take on modern technology and relationships.Join Mom as she navigates through the ups and downs of unexpected unemployment and home life surprises. "Gluck Gluck 3000" is not just a story; it's a comedic reflection on the times we live in, wrapped up in a delightfully absurd package.Get ready for a rollercoaster of laughs and surprises. This book is perfect for fans of joke books, humor books, and satirical gifts.Don't miss out on the fun—add "Gluck Gluck 3000" to your collection today and experience the joy of laughter and unexpected twists! https://bradgosse.com/products/gluck-gluck-3000-signed-copy?variant=44460117098799 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09R3M4SFZ.png?v=1675972335&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798408609512 B09R3M4SFZ 543543 44460113330479 Gluck Gluck 9000... Mom's Most Impressive Professional Skill, As Explained To Your Class Mom loves her job painting toys. For kids all around the world to enjoy. But mom goes far beyond the standard technique... she has developed something called the Gluck Gluck 9000, which is a method so specialized, so refined, and so enthusiastically received by the toy industry that it has been named, numbered, and apparently career-defining. This book is about mom's toy painting career and the specific technique that made her exceptional at it. There is nothing else in this book. This is a book about toy painting. The name is a coincidence. Adult parody humor that operates through absolute technical innocence is a genre that requires complete commitment to function, and this book commits completely. Every sentence is about a painter of toys. Every illustration shows toys. The Gluck Gluck 9000 is a painting method. The number 9000 refers to the technique's excellence on a numerical scale. If you are reading anything else into this, you should probably examine why, and also you are right and that's the whole joke. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate a sustained double meaning that never breaks character for the entire illustrated runtime Anyone who has heard a phrase in a non-work context and then heard it again in a work context and had a very professional response Fans of humor that relies entirely on the audience doing the interpretive work while the book maintains complete plausible deniability Gift-givers who want to hand someone something at a bachelorette party that requires zero explanation because the name does everything This Book Is NOT For: Actual toy painters who feel their profession is being used as a vehicle for something they didn't consent to represent People who will read this and not get it and then describe it to someone who will immediately get it Readers who need the subject matter addressed directly rather than through a layer of industrial toy-painting metaphor Anyone who plans to read this aloud in a professional context and has not thought through the second half of that plan Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... this is perhaps the most perfect bachelorette party book that has ever existed White elephant exchanges where the goal is to produce a laugh that doesn't require an explanation Gifts for anyone in your life who you know will get it immediately and appreciate that you knew that Any situation where you want to give a book that functions as an inside joke the moment someone reads the cover Why Buy This There are certain gifts that work before they're even unwrapped. The name does the heavy lifting. The recipient reads it, processes it, and the look on their face is the gift you were actually giving. That look is: recognition, disbelief, and then the laugh that comes from understanding that someone cared enough to find the exact right thing. The Gluck Gluck 9000 produces that look. That look is worth considerably more than the cost of the book. Mom worked hard to develop her technique. She deserves recognition for it. The book provides that recognition in illustrated cartoon form and for less than the cost of a reasonable lunch. Buy it for someone whose sense of humor is exactly this specific. They exist in your life. You know who they are. The Gluck Gluck 9000 is waiting. https://bradgosse.com/products/gluck-gluck-9000-signed-copy?variant=44460113330479 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09R3G8ZZ5.png?v=1675972273&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798408153787 B09R3G8ZZ5 543543 44460117852463 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/guys-i-stopped-following-for-you-signed-copy?variant=44460117852463 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09R3G3VHY.png?v=1675972351&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B09R3G3VHY 543543 50240074318127 Happy Birthday Nobody Cares... Annual Documentation That The Earth Completed Another Orbit It's that day again. The one we dread, annually, with increasing specificity about what we're dreading. Your birthday has arrived and the book would rather not be here either, but here we both are. This is the anti-birthday book... not hateful, not cruel, just deeply, accurately honest about the gap between birthdays as they are culturally framed and birthdays as they are privately experienced once you are old enough to understand that the day is not, in fact, about you in any meaningful cosmic sense. The Earth went around the Sun. Congratulations. Same as last year. Illustrated in cartoon art with the resigned tone of a book that has been to a lot of birthday parties and noticed some patterns, this adult parody book takes aim at the relentless optimism of birthday culture and replaces it with something more accurate. It is not mean. It is not sad. It is the specific humor of someone who has made peace with the fact that turning another year older is exactly as significant as the universe suggests it is, which is to say: not particularly, but we can still have cake. This Book IS For: Anyone who has ever opened a birthday and felt the gap between the occasion and the experience with crystal clarity People who find relentless birthday positivity exhausting and would prefer some honesty with their cake Fans of humor that makes you feel seen for the specific emotion of "I don't want a fuss but I also want a fuss and I resent this tension" Gift-givers who want to acknowledge a birthday in a way that actually says something true about what birthdays are like This Book Is NOT For: People who genuinely love their birthday without complication and find this energy unnecessary Anyone who plans birthday parties for themselves in December for a birthday that happens in March Readers who believe every book should leave the recipient feeling better than they did before they opened it Birthday maximalists who decorate their workspace for a week and find skeptics personally threatening Appropriate For: Birthday gifts... this is, despite everything, a birthday book and that is its natural habitat White elephant exchanges where someone's birthday happens to fall near the event Gag gifts for the friend who has been loudly ambivalent about their upcoming birthday for the past two months Anyone whose milestone birthday is approaching and who would rather laugh about it than not Why Buy This A birthday card says "Happy Birthday!" with an exclamation point that nobody earns at forty-three. This book says "Happy Birthday. We see you. We see exactly what this is." That distinction matters more than it sounds like it should. One of those things is a social performance. The other is a gift from someone who paid attention. People who received too many birthday cards and not enough honesty will understand immediately. At roughly the cost of a birthday card plus a stamp plus the ten minutes you'd spend in the card aisle looking for something that didn't feel hollow, this book does more work with more accuracy and fewer exclamation points. Nobody actually cares about your birthday as much as you secretly hoped they would. This book cares about it exactly the right amount, which is: slightly, but sincerely, with cartoon art. https://bradgosse.com/products/happy-birthday-nobody-cares-signed-copy?variant=50240074318127 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CJBP845P.png?v=1720546662&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798352186008 B0CJBP845P 543543 44460103827759 Help Me Step Bro: Creative Prompts For Quality Movies... A Writing Workshop For A Very Specific Genre You might be getting fired. You have unpaid parking tickets. Your attention is required somewhere and you cannot reach what you need without assistance. A specific category of film has addressed these scenarios with remarkable consistency and a very particular narrative solution. This book is a creative writing prompt collection for aspiring writers in that genre, offering situation after situation that begins with a problem and resolves in a direction that the adult film industry has found reliably resonant with its audience. The prompts are detailed. The genre conventions are respected. The step-brother is a narrative device. This adult parody book is funny because the genre it parodies is, when examined with fresh eyes, one of the most consistent and formulaic narrative traditions in the history of storytelling. Every story has the same structure. Every situation begins the same way. The step-bro is always present and always prepared to help. This book celebrates that consistency with the enthusiasm it deserves and the creative writing framework it's clearly been asking for. This Book IS For: Anyone who has ever encountered the step-bro genre and had the specific thought "this is incredibly formulaic and I am compelled to analyze it" Writers looking for a very specific narrative constraint to work within and build creative muscles against Fans of parody that addresses a subject by treating it with the utmost narrative seriousness Gift-givers who want to acknowledge a cultural phenomenon that everyone is aware of and nobody discusses at dinner This Book Is NOT For: Anyone who was not aware this genre existed until just now and would prefer to return to that state Serious screenwriting educators who have strong feelings about creative writing prompts and their appropriate subject matter People who will receive this and feel the need to explain to everyone in the room what it references and why Anyone giving a book at an event where the cultural reference point might not be universally shared Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... the step-bro genre is practically the bachelorette party's ambient soundtrack White elephant exchanges where the group skews toward people who have an internet connection and a sense of humor about it Gag gifts for anyone who has ever made a reference to this genre in conversation and gotten too much recognition back Creative writing circles that want to expand their prompt library into underrepresented narrative traditions Why Buy This The step-bro genre has generated more content than most literary traditions combined, and not one minute of it has ever been accompanied by a proper creative writing curriculum. This book corrects that gap. It provides the framework, the scenario prompts, and the narrative conventions of an entire school of storytelling that has been wildly successful without ever receiving the academic attention it clearly deserves. That gap has been addressed. You're welcome, literature. At the price of a budget paperback, you get a creative writing manual for a genre that has already proven its commercial viability. Whether you buy it as an actual writing resource, a gag gift, or a conversation piece, it will deliver. The step-bro genre has never needed better writers. It has always needed writers, period. This is their guide. https://bradgosse.com/products/help-me-step-bro-creative-prompts-for-quality-movies-signed-copy?variant=44460103827759 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08T5WGFSV.png?v=1675972137&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798595094474 B08T5WGFSV 543543 44460115034415 How Cows Become Burgers: Follow Along From Farm To Table... An Educational Journey With An Honest Destination Kids love cows. Cows are large, gentle, emotionally available animals with big eyes and an unfortunate relationship with the food industry that nobody in a children's book has ever addressed with complete honesty until now. This book starts in the cow kingdom. It ends somewhere else. It tells you where it's going in the title and then takes you there, step by illustrated step, with the patient educational tone of a farm field trip guide who has decided today is the day we explain the full process rather than stopping conveniently before things get uncomfortable. This adult parody book is a farm-to-table explainer that follows through on the promise of farm-to-table. Where do burgers come from? This book answers that question with cartoon art, educational enthusiasm, and complete refusal to leave out the part that every other children's farm book stops before reaching. The cow kingdom is the beginning. The full story is the point. The burger is the destination. Bon appétit, and also, this is where food comes from. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up on farm books that conveniently ended before the supply chain revealed itself Parents who have been asked "where does food come from?" and want a book that answers completely Vegetarians and vegans who want to give someone a gift that makes the agricultural system's logic visible Gift-givers who appreciate educational content that doesn't blink at the part everyone else edits out This Book Is NOT For: Children who have been told cows live long happy farm lives and whose parents need that version to remain intact for at least three more years Farmers who find this depiction of their industry insufficiently flattering and would like to discuss the nuances Anyone currently eating a burger while reading this description and who has not thought this through Readers who believe the farm-to-table conversation should end at the farm and imply the table Appropriate For: Gifts for anyone who works in food, agriculture, or any industry that benefits from consumers not asking too many questions White elephant exchanges where someone in the group is a committed carnivore and someone else is not Baby showers for parents who have decided they will raise honest children who understand where things come from Gag gifts for the friend who describes themselves as a "foodie" and has very specific restaurant opinions Why Buy This Most food costs more than this book and involves cows going through an experience this book describes without the cartoon art making it more pleasant. You are already participating in the supply chain. The least you can do is understand it, illustrated, in a format that takes four minutes to read and lasts considerably longer than any of the products the cows eventually become. That is the circle of life, documented. That is farm to table, followed all the way to the table. Buy it for someone who loves burgers and can handle context. Buy it for someone who has never made the connection and is ready to. Buy it for a child who asks too many questions and deserves honest answers. The cow kingdom is the beginning. This book is the middle. You already know the end because you've eaten it. Now you have the full picture. https://bradgosse.com/products/how-cows-become-burgers-follow-along-from-farm-to-table-signed-copy?variant=44460115034415 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08MHMP2ZB.png?v=1675972320&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798557722902 B08MHMP2ZB 543543 44460101992751 How Daddy Got An STD: Understanding Safe Sex And Prostitution... A Health Curriculum For The Curious Child Dad goes out every night after the fights with mommy. What dad does, the household does not entirely know. What the doctor's office knows has recently become relevant family information, and this book explains the chain of events... from the argument, to the evening out, to the professional engagement, to the medical visit, to the prescription... with the educational clarity of a health pamphlet that has taken on considerably more than health pamphlets typically cover. This is a complete curriculum. The class begins with dad's decision-making. It does not end with the best possible outcome for anyone involved. Illustrated with cartoon art and narrated with the bright, educational tone of a guide that truly believes information is the best medicine... which, in this case, it is not, but medication is also discussed... this adult parody book tackles the sex ed conversation that most illustrated guides approach sideways. This one approaches it directly, using dad as the case study, and finds that dad is an instructive if not exemplary model for the material being covered. This Book IS For: Adults who believe sex education content should be honest, complete, and not require three follow-up conversations to clarify what was left out Anyone who has ever had to explain an adult situation to someone younger using the most carefully chosen words possible Fans of dark humor that takes a premise to its logical conclusion without making a U-turn at the uncomfortable part Gift-givers who want to hand someone something that functions simultaneously as comedy and as genuinely informative material about consequences This Book Is NOT For: Dads who recognize this situation too personally to find it funny yet and need more time Sex educators who have curriculum standards and find this departure from them professionally distressing Readers who need the dad character to model better decision-making and redeem himself narratively by page twelve Anyone planning to use this as the primary sex education resource for actual children without supplementary materials Appropriate For: Gag gifts for adults who work in healthcare and need something to put in the break room next to the informational posters White elephant exchanges where at least one person in the group works in public health and will appreciate the scope Bachelorette parties for the friend who has been describing herself as "in her healing era" since the breakup Anyone who went through a standard sex ed curriculum in school and felt it was missing some key real-world applications Why Buy This Standard sex ed costs a school year. This book costs roughly the price of a co-pay, which is appropriate given the subject matter, and it covers material that the school year does not address. The co-pay, in this case, is for a book rather than a visit, which also means you don't have to fill out forms and wait in a chair. Better value. Same general information about consequences and decisions. Dad made some choices. The choices had outcomes. The outcomes generated a doctor's visit, a prescription, and this book. The book is the most useful thing to come out of the situation and it is yours for less than the medication that followed the visit that followed the decision that followed the argument. The educational value is real. The cartoon art makes it go down easier. Not unlike the prescription, ultimately. https://bradgosse.com/products/how-daddy-got-an-std-understanding-safe-sex-and-prostitution-signed-copy?variant=44460101992751 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B084DGMGXW.png?v=1675972111&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798609394071 B084DGMGXW 543543 51037803905327 A Step-by-Step Guide to Psychological Warfare for Sociopaths, Clowns, and Opportunists Ever dream of bending reality to your will like a deranged puppet master? Want to convince your roommate they owe you rent for a house they technically own? Maybe you just want to rewrite history so your boss thinks they were the one who forgot your raise. Congratulations, you morally ambiguous mastermind—you just found the ultimate playbook for warping minds, twisting truth, and making people question their own existence. How to Gaslight People for Fun and Profit is not just a book—it’s a weaponized reality distortion field in paperback form. Inside these pages, you’ll learn: 🔥 Gaslighting 101 – Start small: Move their keys, deny eating their last slice of pizza, and act deeply concerned when they swear they had a pet goldfish yesterday. 💼 Gaslighting at Work – Convince your boss they promised you that three-day weekend. Make your coworkers question if they really submitted that report on time, or if they just dreamed it. 💰 Gaslighting for Profit – Sell someone their own lamp and convince them they gave it to you last week. Launch a pyramid scheme where the only thing being sold is confusion. ⚠️ Advanced Gaslighting – Rewrite your past. Did you fail college, or were you actually expelled for being too brilliant? Did your ex dump you, or did you break up with them first? 🚀 Gaslighting Yourself: The Final Boss Battle – The true gaslighting master doesn’t just lie to others—they lie to themselves. The Perfect Book for… 🎁 White Elephant Gift Exchanges – Watch as someone realizes they’ve just unwrapped a personal ethics crisis. 🎅 Secret Santa Disasters – Nothing spreads holiday cheer like a step-by-step guide to warping someone’s mind. 😂 Gag Gifts for Friends Who Already Doubt Their Sanity – Help them along on their journey of existential despair. 📖 Self-Help for People Who Gave Up on Self-Help – Because sometimes, lying to yourself is just as good as fixing yourself. Signed Copies – Because Even That’s a Mind Game And because I fully commit to the bit, I personally sign every copy—a legally binding contract stating that you, the reader, are now officially part of the gaslighting elite. Is it really my signature? Did I sign it with my hand or just my mind? Was the book even blank before you opened it? You’ll never know. ⚠️ WARNING: This book is a satire, a comedy grenade thrown directly into the face of common sense. If you’re the kind of person who sees a "Wet Paint" sign and has to touch it just to be sure, this book is going to be a rough ride for you. If, however, you love dark humor, mind games, and watching other people spiral into confusion while you sip your coffee with the calmness of an unbothered psychopath, then congratulations—you just found your new favorite book. Buy it now—unless, of course, you already did and just forgot. (You did, didn’t you?) https://bradgosse.com/products/how-to-gaslight-people-for-fun-and-profit-signed-copy?variant=51037803905327 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/a4086d0a44fdb0a3ea01a7e04a2c6785.png?v=1739979644&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 24.00 USD B0DXQ3JLZN 543543 51837529784623 How to Network at Swinger Parties is a proudly unhelpful, ridiculous adults-only picture book that mashes corporate small talk into the least corporate settings imaginable. Drawn in a cheerful children’s-book style (because nothing says “career development” like cartoon smiles and suspiciously wholesome art), this parody follows one overeager schmoozer as he tries to climb the ladder while everyone else is busy climbing each other. Think name tags, red cups, painfully earnest icebreakers, and a misplaced belief that networking never sleeps. You’ll see “tips” like asking about someone’s job in a hot tub, comparing productivity hacks while a futon creaks under stress, swapping favorite business books mid-rope knot, and delivering motivational speeches in nothing but a towel. The humor is cynical, self-deprecating, and just crass enough to sting, because adulthood already hurts so we may as well laugh at the mess.This is not a real networking guide. Please do not try to hand out business cards while someone is reaching for a blindfold. It is satire for people tired of hustle culture who still somehow own three unread leadership books and a mug that says “rise and grind.” The drawings are cute, the captions are shameless, and the clash is the point. This book makes no promises about success or growth, it simply delivers the joy of cracking up, whether alone or with friends. You are not buying wisdom, you are buying the experience of laughing at something dumber than your week.Who is it for? The coworker who treats happy hour like LinkedIn Live. The couple who host suspicious “game nights.” Your single friend who brings a portfolio to brunch. Your boss with 50 lanyards and no soul. Your book club sick of 500-page trauma novels. Newlyweds who would rather laugh than light candles. Divorced friends who need a victory grin. Anyone with a desk, a sense of humor, and a tolerance for satire.When does it make the best gift? White Elephant exchanges (silence followed by laughter). Secret Santa (perfect if HR is either relaxed or nonexistent). Bachelor or bachelorette parties (because toasts are forgettable but this is not). Housewarmings (pairs well with wine and regrets). Birthdays for the “has everything” friend. Valentine’s Day for couples fluent in sarcasm. Anniversaries for people who laugh first and apologize later. Stockings, gag gifts, and “I messed up” offerings when flowers won’t cut it.Every page lands the same delightful punch: ambition colliding with consensual mayhem. Expect faux-wholesome panels about scheduling follow-up coffee dates at 2 a.m., probing “how you got into your field” during cuddle piles, and comparing badges like trophies in places you should not be comparing anything. The art is cute on purpose, the captions are aggressively unhelpful, and the vibe is “career day lost its chaperones.” This is the coffee-table book that makes guests question your life choices, then borrow it anyway.How to Network at Swinger Parties will not fix your career or streamline your workflow. What it will do is make you laugh, snort, and share pages with people who deserve to see you at your most unprofessional. That is the entire point: a stack of jokes drawn with fake sincerity, designed to give you grins per minute. If you are allergic to hustle sermons and allergic to boredom, this paperback is your next guilty pleasure. https://bradgosse.com/products/how-to-network-at-swinger-parties-signed-copy?variant=51837529784623 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/3c3b71783ab4efe763fc9fedec1d18ec.png?v=1757011457&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FPRPVFG8 543543 51795031720239 Hugh Jayness is a fully illustrated, children’s-book-looking, adults-only parody about a brilliant doctor saddled with an unfortunate name you should probably say out loud once and then pretend you didn’t. Drawn in sweet, candy-colored panels and told in tight little rhymes, this not-for-kids story follows a medical prodigy who studies the shadowy arts of proctology with professional pride, latex at the ready, and the kind of bedside manner that says, “You’re fine… probably.” It’s equal parts nursery-rhyme innocence and cynical bathroom humor... because the world is on fire and sometimes the only reasonable response is to laugh at a butt joke like a dignified hyena.It’s not trying to change your life. It’s trying to make you snort-laugh and momentarily forget that you answered work emails at 1 a.m. The joy here is simple: page after page of bright cartoon chaos where a capable doctor meets unglamorous problems with deadpan enthusiasm. Expect dim lighting, squeaky gloves, awkward small talk, and rhymes that march confidently toward punch lines you’ll see coming and still laugh at anyway. If you’re hunting for a tasteful meditation on the human spirit, you overshot... try the bookstore three blocks over. If you want a shamelessly childish giggle wrapped in adult wit, welcome to the waiting room. What you’re actually buying: not wisdom, not enlightenment, and certainly not medical advice. You’re buying the experience of laughter... quick, rude, and cathartic. You’re buying the moment a friend picks it up, reads the title out loud, and realizes the pun has been hiding in plain sight. You’re buying an instant conversation piece for your coffee table, your bathroom shelf (don’t act shocked), or the office desk where decorum goes to die right next to the stapler you never return. Inside this ridiculous little treasure you’ll find: • Cheerfully innocent art that absolutely knows what it’s doing.• Rhymes that skip along like a playground chant, then trip over something unspeakably adult.• A doctor who treats awkwardness like a colleague and dignity like a polite suggestion.• The reassuring knowledge that someone, somewhere, is having a weirder day than you. Perfect for gifting when you need a present that says “I tried, but not too hard”: • White elephant exchanges where the competition is a scented candle and a screaming goat figurine.• Secret Santa chaos at work... watch HR pretend they didn’t laugh.• Birthdays for friends who rank humor as “lowbrow but effective.”• Bachelor and bachelorette parties where classy went home hours ago.• Housewarmings (especially for apartments with suspicious plumbing).• Gag gifts for siblings who deserve light emotional damage.• Graduations ... med students, nurses, GI folks, and anyone who owns more hand sanitizer than furniture.• Office goodbye parties when Karen “will be missed” and you need proof of minimal effort.• Holidays when your family has stopped pretending to be normal. Also ideal for: best friends with a dark streak, couples who roast each other for sport, roommates who think the bathroom is a library, and that one coworker who forwards you memes at 6:02 a.m. You know the one. Slip this book into a gift bag, add tissue paper like you mean it, and you’ve got five to fifteen minutes of premium, immature laughter... renewable every time someone new sees the cover. Tone check: irreverent, a little crass, and very aware of its own stupidity. The narrator writes like a reformed hall monitor who finally snapped. The jokes wink. The rhymes behave… until they don’t. And the art stays adorably wholesome while describing situations that are, diplomatically speaking, “not for story time.” If that offends you, that’s okay... this book will be fine without you; it was raised to expect abandonment. Important clarifications, in case your aunt asks: • This is a parody picture book made for adults.• No explicit imagery. The humor is suggestive, not graphic... like a sitcom that graduated to cable.• No politics, no sermons, no inspirational quotes in cursive. Just jokes. Many, many jokes.Look, you’re not going to frame it above the fireplace. You’re going to flip it open, laugh too loud, close it, then open it again and read your favorite rhyme to the nearest victim because misery loves company and comedy does too. Hugh Jayness is the literary equivalent of pressing the elevator’s “close door” button: you know it doesn’t help, but it makes you feel better. If you want refined art, buy a landscape. If you want a guaranteed grin delivered in glossy, colorful pages, let the good doctor see you now. Bring your sense of humor. Leave your dignity in the lobby. https://bradgosse.com/products/hugh-jayness-signed-copy?variant=51795031720239 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/8e4353815b88ca9c144616ed0b2b631e.png?v=1755640211&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FMYTGSBM 543543 44460108579119 Humpty Dumpty Discovers Workplace Misconduct... HR Cannot Put This One Back Together Again Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty got a new job. And on Humpty Dumpty's first week, before he'd even updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect the new position, Humpty Dumpty learned that not all walls are physical, some walls are professional boundaries, and a colleague named Kelly has received information about a snake in someone's pants that is going directly to HR on Monday. The fall is not the problem anymore. The fall, in retrospect, was the easy part. This book documents Humpty's new professional challenges with the tone of someone who cannot believe what is happening and yet absolutely can. This adult parody book takes a nursery rhyme icon and places him in the contemporary workplace with all the specific horrors that implies. The harassment policy exists. The HR department has a form. Humpty is learning what the form is for. Illustrated in cartoon art with the resigned energy of someone on their second mandatory training session of the month, this book documents a corporate environment that no nursery rhyme has ever had the courage to address until now. This Book IS For: Anyone who has ever sat through a mandatory workplace training and thought "this exists because someone did something" Office workers who have had a HR interaction that was less the helpful resolution experience it was presented as Fans of parody that takes beloved characters and deposits them in recognizably awful modern situations Gift-givers who want something perfect for an office secret santa that says something true about office life This Book Is NOT For: HR professionals who find humor at the expense of their department's essential and underappreciated work misguided Anyone currently navigating an active workplace situation and not yet far enough away from it to laugh Readers who need Humpty's story to end in a settlement that fully reflects the emotional damages People in management who recognize the behavior in this book from somewhere specific and are not ready to laugh about that yet Appropriate For: Office Secret Santa... the most perfect office Secret Santa book that exists and you will not find a better one White elephant exchanges at the office holiday party where this hits different with wine Farewell gifts for colleagues leaving a workplace environment they found instructive in ways they didn't plan Gag gifts for anyone who works in HR and has seen everything this book describes and needs to laugh about it Why Buy This The office holiday party is already a minefield of professional obligation and social performance. This book, given at that party, is a gift that acknowledges reality. It says: we all know what this place is like. We are all managing. Here is a book about Humpty Dumpty in HR trouble that articulates this environment more accurately than the annual company newsletter has ever managed. That honesty is worth the cost of the book. The all the king's horses and all the king's men failed to put Humpty together again. The HR department's documentation process has not gone significantly better. The snake in the pants situation remains unresolved pending a formal investigation. The book costs less than the legal consultation that several people in this story are about to need. Buy it. Read it before the next mandatory training. It's preparation. https://bradgosse.com/products/humpty-dumpty-discovers-workplace-misconduct-signed-copy?variant=44460108579119 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08P42L6J6.png?v=1675972193&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798573982595 B08P42L6J6 543543 50240074678575 Humpy The Pig Gets An STI... A Farm Story About Choices, Consequences, And The Vet Bill You Didn't Budget For Near your hometown, on a farm that seemed perfectly ordinary from the road, lived Humpy the Pig. Humpy likes to go down. Humpy has developed a lifestyle that the other animals on the farm describe as "a lot" and the veterinarian describes in clinical language that takes three pamphlets to fully explain. Humpy has made choices. Humpy's choices have produced outcomes. Those outcomes now involve a visit to the vet, a prescription, and this book, which documents the full journey from lifestyle to consequence with illustrated cartoon art and the cheerful educational tone of a farmyard health guide that has decided to address the full curriculum. This adult parody book follows the proud tradition of farm-based educational content, specifically the part of that tradition that discusses what happens when Humpy makes the kinds of decisions that Humpy is predisposed to make. The farm setting is correct. The farm animals are correct. The STI is correct. The book is honest about all of it and presents the information in a way that is simultaneously funny and genuinely more educational than some things in this genre that are trying harder to be educational. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up on wholesome farm books and are ready for the version that covers the full range of farm experiences Anyone who works in veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, or any field that has made them familiar with Humpy's situation Fans of dark comedy that uses animal characters to make human-adjacent content feel slightly more approachable Gift-givers who want something that works as both a legitimate conversation piece and a reason to discuss safe practices among friends This Book Is NOT For: People who believe farm animals should be depicted only in contexts that reflect well on the agricultural sector Veterinarians who are in the middle of a very specific case and would prefer not to see it dramatized right now Readers who need all farm characters to model excellent decision-making throughout the narrative arc Anyone who is currently Humpy in any meaningful sense and needs some additional time before finding this funny Appropriate For: Gag gifts for veterinary professionals who have earned the right to laugh at the subject matter White elephant exchanges where Humpy's story lands as recognition rather than shock for at least half the room Any occasion where you want to give a gift that functions as a public health awareness campaign delivered via cartoon pig Bachelorette parties for the friend who can relate to Humpy's energy if not necessarily Humpy's outcomes Why Buy This The vet bill was not budgeted for. The pamphlets were not expected. The conversation with the other animals was uncomfortable. None of this was how Humpy planned the year to go, and the book is honest about that while being cheerful about it in the way that only illustrated cartoon art about a pig with an STI can be cheerful. The information is real. The pig is cartoon. The gap between those two things is the entire joke. Buy it for someone in your life who will immediately know a person exactly like Humpy. Buy it for someone who is Humpy and can laugh about it. Buy it for a veterinarian who needs something for the break room. The pig made choices. The book documents the outcomes. The vet's contact information is on the last page of every pamphlet Humpy was given. Some of us need the pamphlets more than others. Humpy needed all of them. https://bradgosse.com/products/humpy-the-pig-gets-an-sti-signed-copy?variant=50240074678575 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0D2QR6GRY.png?v=1720546670&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798324014285 B0D2QR6GRY 543543 50240074121519 I Love Corn... A Comprehensive Guide To An Agricultural Passion That Is Fully Defensible In Any Context In the land of corn, the narrator is a connoisseur. From corn hole to cream corn, from every variety to every preparation, there is nothing about corn that this narrator does not love with complete, documented enthusiasm. This is a book about corn. It covers the full range of corn experiences. It discusses corn hole with the enthusiasm of someone who has played the game many times and finds it deeply satisfying. It discusses cream corn. It discusses every aspect of corn that a corn enthusiast would want documented in illustrated form. There is nothing unusual about any of this. This adult parody book operates in the space between two meanings with the confidence of a book that picked one and will defend it under any questioning. It is about corn. Agricultural corn. The kind that grows in fields. The enthusiasm is for the crop, the activities associated with the crop, and the various forms in which corn can be prepared and enjoyed. If you are reading something else into "cream corn" and "corn hole" and "loving corn," that is a you situation and the book declines to engage with it. The corn is delicious. That is the whole story. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate a book that commits to an agricultural theme while knowing exactly what it's doing with that commitment Fans of humor that relies on the reader doing 100% of the interpretive work while the book maintains total innocence Anyone who has found themselves in a professional setting where the word "corn hole" required a reaction they had to manage carefully Gift-givers who want to hand someone something that looks completely innocent and is not innocent in any way that can be proven This Book Is NOT For: Actual corn farmers who feel this is not the agricultural representation their industry needs right now People who play corn hole competitively and feel the game name has already generated enough unintended humor without a book Readers who want their books about beloved vegetables to be straightforwardly about beloved vegetables Anyone who is going to read this at a family gathering where the full age range is present and has not planned accordingly Appropriate For: Summer parties, barbecues, and any outdoor event where corn hole is being played and the timing is perfect White elephant exchanges where handing someone a book about corn will take ten seconds to land and then be unable to be put down Bachelorette parties, because "cream corn" is going to come up eventually and this contextualizes it beautifully Gifts for anyone who has ever lost their composure at the phrase "corn hole" in a professional setting Why Buy This Corn is the most versatile crop in the American agricultural landscape. It is in your food, your fuel, your building materials, your recreational games, and now your gift budget. This book costs less than a bag of popcorn at a movie theater and generates more discussion than the movie. It is agricultural comedy at its most technically defensible and practically indefensible, and the combination of those two things is what makes it work. The corn hole game is in the backyard. The cream corn is in the casserole. The enthusiasm for corn in all its forms is documented on every page of this book. Buy it for someone who will immediately understand. Buy it for someone who won't understand immediately and then will. The land of corn is waiting. The connoisseur is enthusiastic. The book is available right now. https://bradgosse.com/products/i-love-corn-signed-copy?variant=50240074121519 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CHLG2JRX.png?v=1720546654&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798352186008 B0CHLG2JRX 543543 58014927618351 I Love Gabe Horn: An Adult Parody Book That Will Immediately Identify Someone You Know Gabe Horn is a real person. He makes videos. Our protagonist loves her Gabe Horn. She watches him every day, shares him with friends, grabs him alone in the dark, takes him to the park, holds him all night until Gabe Horn feels so good and so right. She writes him a love letter. She is left broken-hearted without her Gabe Horn. Gabe Horn gives it to you. Gabe Horn is free, on everyone's device, ready for post and replay at any hour. This is a book about enjoying online content from a creator you admire. That is the complete official description and we are absolutely sticking with it. Brad Gosse has taken the visual style of a picture book, weaponized it with innuendo, and put a real person's name on the cover. I Love Gabe Horn is a love story between a woman and her favorite adults-only content creator, told in rhyming couplets with cheerful cartoons that make the whole thing somehow worse. Gabe Horn is a real human person who approved this, has seen the cover, and made a deliberate choice. We are all going to have to process that on our own time. This Book Is For You If... You already know what kind of content Gabe Horn makes and you found this page deliberately You have a friend who is dangerously online and this is the most honest gift you can give them You want something that makes a person laugh, stop laughing, then laugh again much harder You enjoy parody that uses cheerful cartoon innocence as a delivery mechanism for chaos You are Gabe Horn personally and want copies to sell at the merch table after shows This Book Is NOT For You If... You do not know who Gabe Horn is and you are genuinely not ready to find out today You thought this was about a brass instrument and feel that you have been misled You are easily unsettled by content that is technically clean and spiritually is not You have already reported other Brad Gosse titles and are actively building a case file You prefer your adult parody books to not involve real people with functional social media accounts Perfect Occasions for This Book Bachelor/Bachelorette parties where at least one person in the room needs to be publicly identified Valentine's Day for the person who watches too much online content alone at night White elephant exchanges where your specific goal is to cause a recognizable kind of confusion A gift for any content creator who has completely lost perspective on their own career Any occasion requiring something that functions simultaneously as a confession and a punchline Leave it on someone's desk without explanation, walk away, do not look back under any circumstances Look, Just Buy the Stupid Book You could buy a greeting card for almost exactly the same price. You will not. You are on this page because you already know what this is and you need it for a specific person and a specific reason you do not need to explain to anyone. This book will be recognized the moment it is unwrapped. Someone in the room will point at another person. That person will turn red. It gets read aloud and Gabe Horn feels so good gets delivered in a voice. You cannot put a price on that moment. You can actually. It is the price of this book. Brad Gosse wrote this with a real person's name on the cover and that real person said yes. Whatever you were planning to do with your afternoon, this is what happened instead. Buy the book. Give it to whoever you already have in mind. Let Brad and Gabe sort out whatever this creative partnership has become. That is genuinely not your problem. https://bradgosse.com/products/i-love-gabe-horn-signed-copy?variant=58014927618351 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/cf2fe03cb4e738b6ae9563114259b61d.png?v=1780230059&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0H3H8GKD3 543543 50240074285359 I'm Offended... A Catalogue Of Everything Wrong With A World That Was Not Consulted Before Existing The sun is offensive. It spoils the fun. The moon is offensive. It's too high. The narrator of this book is offended by a comprehensive and growing list of things, each of which has been identified as a personal affront that the universe should address immediately and has thus far refused to address at all. This book documents the full scope of the offense, item by item, with the relentless accumulating logic of a worldview that has found grievance and committed to it as a lifestyle. Nothing is innocent. Everything requires commentary. The book is the commentary. This illustrated adult parody book is a precise satirical portrait of a certain mode of engagement with the world... the one that finds the problem in everything and presents the finding as a kind of public service. It is funny because it is recognizable. It is recognizable because the stance it satirizes has never been more visible. You know someone who is offended by the sun. You might, on certain days, be offended by the sun. This book sees you. It is also slightly offended by you. That is appropriate. This Book IS For: Anyone who has encountered the fully offended worldview up close and needed something to process it with Fans of satire that names a cultural pattern and documents it with affectionate but unsparing accuracy People who are occasionally guilty of the stance being satirized and have enough self-awareness to laugh at themselves Gift-givers who want to give something to the person in their life who is, genuinely, offended by a lot of things This Book Is NOT For: People who will read this satire of being offended and find it offensive, which would be the most efficient example of the book's subject matter Anyone who believes their own particular collection of grievances is distinct from what's being satirized here and deserves separate treatment Readers who need comedy to come with a disclaimer that the satirical target was consulted before being targeted The easily offended, obviously, who should not buy this but statistically probably will Appropriate For: Gifts for the person in your life who sends the most complaint-adjacent messages in any given week White elephant exchanges where you want to give something that describes at least one person in the room Office parties where someone has already complained about the music, the food, or the location of the party they chose to attend Any occasion where a small mirror in book form would be the most appropriate gift and this is a small mirror in book form Why Buy This The world has produced no shortage of things to be offended by. The book has catalogued some of them. More are being generated daily. At current rates, a sequel is probably warranted. For the price of roughly one complaint lodged with a customer service department, you can purchase a document of all complaints, which is more efficient than filing them individually and produces the same outcome, which is: nothing changes, but you feel better for a moment. I'm offended is not just a book. It is a state of being. It is a lifestyle choice. It is a way of moving through a world that refuses to be corrected and yet responds to every attempt with such thoroughness that the attempt must feel justified. Buy it for someone who needs to see the pattern from outside. Buy it for yourself if you are, occasionally, that someone. The sun is still offensive. The book can't help that. But it documents it, which is almost as satisfying. https://bradgosse.com/products/im-offended-signed-copy?variant=50240074285359 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CHLC1XZR.png?v=1720546658&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798352186008 B0CHLC1XZR 543543 44460110053679 Ice Cream Man Goes Pee In The Back Of His Truck... A Supply Chain Transparency Report Everyone loves ice cream when it comes on a truck. Everyone knows that tune. Everyone runs to the curb. This book is about what happens in the truck between the times when people are running to the curb, which is information that the ice cream industry has not been forthcoming about and which this book addresses in illustrated cartoon form with the matter-of-fact tone of a documentary that decided the public had a right to know. The ice cream man goes pee in the back of his truck. He has been going pee in the back of his truck for longer than the ice cream man will confirm and shorter than the back of the truck suggests. This is the information. This is the book. This adult parody book is gross-out humor with a realistic basis, which is the specific combination that makes people laugh and then think "actually wait" and then laugh harder. The ice cream is still delicious. That's the part that makes this funny. The ice cream is also still available. That's the part that makes this uncomfortable. Both things are true and the book is honest about both of them while being cheerful about neither. That's the experience. Buy accordingly. This Book IS For: Adults who have thought too much about the operational logistics of the ice cream truck and arrived somewhere they can't return from Fans of gross-out humor with plausible real-world foundations that make the joke landing with actual body weight Anyone who has ever eaten street food from a truck and decided not to think too carefully about the journey Gift-givers who want to ruin something innocent for someone they care about in a way they'll laugh about for years This Book Is NOT For: Ice cream truck operators who feel this is a PR problem for their industry and would prefer a retraction People who are currently holding an ice cream from a truck and have not thought this book description through Readers who need their food delivery systems to remain unexamined and cheerful from beginning to end Children who still trust the ice cream man completely and whose parents have decided this summer is not the summer for context Appropriate For: Summer parties where someone's eating ice cream and you want to produce a specific reaction at a specific moment White elephant exchanges where the chaos-to-cost ratio is one of the selection criteria Gag gifts for the friend who has a weak stomach but a strong enough sense of humor to get through this Anyone who works in the food service industry and has stories that make this book feel modest by comparison Why Buy This The ice cream truck will return this summer. The tune will play. Someone you know will run toward it. That moment can now have a context it previously lacked. This book costs less than three scoops from the truck and provides information that the three scoops do not. Whether that information improves or complicates the experience of the next truck encounter is a personal matter. The book just provides it. What you do with the ice cream after is up to you. Gross-out humor is an ancient and underappreciated tradition. It works because it locates something real and presents it with the cartoon cheerfulness that makes the real thing suddenly visible and funny instead of just real. The ice cream man goes pee in the back of his truck. You know that. You've always known that, somewhere. The book just confirms it with illustrations and very little sugar coating. https://bradgosse.com/products/ice-cream-man-goes-pee-in-the-back-of-his-truck-signed-copy?variant=44460110053679 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B096CS8D9Y.png?v=1675972208&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798513515074 B096CS8D9Y 543543 45522446254383 The Politically Incorrect Card Game That Will Have You Laughing Out Loud!Are you tired of the same old boring card games that leave you feeling unfulfilled and questioning the purpose of your existence? Are you searching for a game that will not only test your strategic skills but also have you laughing so hard that you'll question whether or not you're still sober? Look no further, because Identity War is here to save the day!Identity War is a card game where the objective is to collect enough cards to collect 3 protected identities and become the most oppressed person. But what are identities, you may ask? Well, in this game, an identity can be anything from "black" to "Woman" to “Gay" (any protected group in western society). And the best part? You get to decide which identities to keep based on the cards you draw. But be careful, because just like in real life, there's always the possibility of being accused of something you didn't do.  Like blackface. In Identity War, accusation cards allow you to steal or swap Identity and Social Credit cards from your opponents. But don't worry, because privilege cards can be played by any player who has an accusation card played against them, allowing you to defend yourself and keep your identities safe.The game was created by Brad Gosse and Jay Rainville, two comedians from Toronto who were inspired to make light of some serious situations. Their backgrounds in comedy shines through in the game, which is built around social commentary and dark humor, making it a unique and enjoyable experience for players of all ages ( recommended ages 14+). You'll be laughing so hard, you won't even realize you're losing.Identity War is designed for 2 to 6 players, making it perfect for a fun night in with friends or a family game night. The game offers a variety of strategies for players to choose from and takes around 15-30 minutes to complete a game. With 108 cards in total: 38 Accusation cards, 30 Identity cards, 11 Wild cards, 7 Privilege cards, 20 Social Credit cards, and 2 Instruction cards, the possibilities for gameplay are endless.LIMITED TIME OFFERBuy 3 or more decks and you get collectors decks signed by the creators with a SPECIAL GIFT. https://bradgosse.com/products/identity-war-card-game?variant=45522446254383 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/box_4213c5f1-db9c-456f-be6c-4ccad3ea774a.jpg?v=1687962871&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 43.00 USD 9504.40 9504.40 543543 44460111036719 Insomniac And Friends: The Clowns That Put You To Sleep... Rest Assured, They Are Very Good At Their Job YeetYeet likes to watch you sleep. Pickles creeps under your bed. Switchblade has a name that is a description of a personality, and he does not disappoint. These are the clowns that have been assigned to handle your sleep disorder, and they are professional, dedicated, and present in ways that you did not request but cannot dispute. The insomnia clinic sent them. They are credentialed. This book introduces the team and documents their methods in illustrated cartoon form with the bright, reassuring tone of a children's guide to a medical service that is not providing medical services. This adult parody book is horror comedy dressed in the visual language of a gentle bedtime book, and the contrast between those two things is the entire experience. The clowns are cheerful. The clowns are named. The clowns have been in your room. The book is illustrated in a style that should be comforting and isn't. That isn't should come naturally once you've read the first page, and it will stay with you in a way that makes going to sleep a more considered activity than it was before. That's the joke. The joke has layers. Some of the layers are under your bed. This Book IS For: Horror fans who want their horror seasoned with comedy and their comedy seasoned with genuine unease Anyone who has ever heard a noise at night and made a decision to attribute it to the house settling Insomniacs who would like something to read that provides a solid reason for staying awake Gift-givers looking for the perfect Halloween gift that also functions as a useful sleep deterrent This Book Is NOT For: People with an existing clinical relationship with clowns that has not been positive Anyone currently living alone who has been doing fine about it and does not need a setback Readers who need their illustrated humor to remain in a space that does not follow them into the bedroom Parents who use bedtime books to calm children down and have accidentally bought the opposite of that Appropriate For: Halloween gifts... this is the Halloween gift; nothing else in the category competes Gag gifts for the friend who claims they're not scared of clowns, which is statistically improbable and should be tested White elephant exchanges where leaving an impression on every person in the room is the strategic objective Gifts for insomniacs who have tried everything and might appreciate a companion for the night watch Why Buy This Horror experiences cost money. Haunted houses are expensive, seasonal, and over in forty-five minutes. This book costs a fraction of a haunted house ticket, never closes for the season, and the specific unease it generates is available for re-reading at any time, including 3am when you are already awake for reasons you'd prefer not to examine. YeetYeet will be there at 3am. YeetYeet is always there at 3am. That is his job. He takes it seriously. The clowns that put you to sleep are named, credentialed, and on their way. The best you can do is know who they are before they arrive. This book provides that knowledge. It is a gift. It is also, in some meaningful sense, a warning. Buy it for someone who appreciates both functions in a single illustrated package. Pickles is already under something near you. Sleep well. https://bradgosse.com/products/insomniac-and-friends-the-clowns-that-put-you-to-sleep-signed-copy?variant=44460111036719 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B084FCZX31.png?v=1675972233&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798611799239 B084FCZX31 543543 44460117917999 Kluckee The Plant Based Chicken... Making Ethical Choices On A Farm That Has Not Been Informed Of The Ethics Welcome to the farm. This is where your food comes from. There are pigs and cows and chickens, and one of the chickens has developed dietary convictions that the other farm animals find challenging to respect without laughing. Kluckee is the plant-based chicken. Kluckee has principles. Kluckee has decided, on a farm, surrounded by feed, to pursue an ethically sourced dietary approach that is creating significant social friction with every other animal present, none of whom have the bandwidth for this right now. The farm has opinions. Kluckee remains committed. This book documents the tension. This adult parody book takes the plant-based movement... earnest, well-intentioned, and occasionally producing the specific energy that this book is satirizing... and places it inside a chicken on a farm, which is either the perfect environment for these convictions or the worst possible one depending on how you look at it. Kluckee looks at it as an opportunity. The other chickens look at it as a personality trait they have to live with. The farmer looks at it as a Kluckee-specific problem. The book looks at it as very funny. This Book IS For: Anyone who has had a meal with someone whose dietary philosophy was the most present personality at the table Omnivores who find the plant-based movement interesting to watch from a comfortable distance Plant-based eaters who have enough self-awareness to recognize the specific energy being satirized and laugh at it Gift-givers who want to hand a book to someone and watch them work out which category they're being placed in This Book Is NOT For: People for whom plant-based dietary choices are a deeply held moral position and not a venue for any kind of humor Anyone who has walked away from a dinner party because the host "didn't understand their needs" and still feels justified Readers who find satire of ethical consumption positions personally targeting regardless of how specific the chicken is Farmers who are currently dealing with their own Kluckee-equivalent and do not find the situation charming yet Appropriate For: Dinner parties where the dietary requirements form has been longer than the guest list for three consecutive events White elephant exchanges among groups that contain at least one Kluckee and at least one person amused by Kluckee Gag gifts for the vegan friend who is secure enough in their choices to find this funny Anyone who works in food service and has met Kluckee in human form and needs something to process the experience Why Buy This The plant-based food industry is worth billions of dollars and generates a specific type of personality at dinner parties that has gone largely undocumented in illustrated cartoon form until now. This book fills that gap. Kluckee is on the farm. Kluckee has convictions. Kluckee's convictions are the most interesting thing about Kluckee to Kluckee, and the second most interesting thing about Kluckee to everyone who has to hear about them at meals. It costs roughly what a plant-based burger costs and produces significantly more conversation. Whether you buy it for yourself, for someone who needs to see themselves clearly, or for someone who needs to feel seen in their frustration with someone who needs to see themselves clearly, the book works. Kluckee has choices. Kluckee is making them. The farm continues regardless. That is the whole joke and it is enough. https://bradgosse.com/products/kluckee-the-plant-based-chicken-signed-copy?variant=44460117917999 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09QFBNPXZ.png?v=1675972354&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B09QFBNPXZ 543543 44460112544047 Make Your Own Luck: Practical Money Advice For Kids... Financial Wisdom From People Who Clearly Got Lucky Your mom says money doesn't grow on trees, because she works hard for her money and trees would undermine her position considerably. This book offers the practical financial guidance that nobody wanted to frame as honestly as this. It covers what money is, where money comes from, and the specific gap between what adults tell children about money and what adults actually do with money, which are two different educations and this book provides the second one. The advice is practical. Some of it is cynical. The cynicism is the practical part. This illustrated adult parody book takes the genre of children's financial literacy and removes the aspirational varnish to find what's underneath. What's underneath is funny, recognizable, and considerably more useful than "work hard and save!" delivered by someone who is demonstrably not doing either of those things with visible success. The cartoons are cheerful. The money advice is real. The combination is one of the more honest financial guides for any age group currently in print. This Book IS For: Adults who received optimistic money advice as children and have since encountered the actual economy Parents who want to give their children a realistic financial education that the school system is not providing Fans of humor that has a second function as genuinely useful perspective on a subject most content oversimplifies Gift-givers looking for something that works for a recent graduate who is about to learn about money the hard way anyway This Book Is NOT For: Certified financial planners who have liability concerns about endorsing the specific advice contained herein Parents who have told their children the optimistic version of money and need them to believe it for a few more years Readers who want their financial guidance to end with a five-step plan that does not mention luck as a variable Anyone who believes that working hard is sufficient and luck plays no meaningful role in financial outcomes Appropriate For: Graduation gifts... the most honest graduation gift you can give to someone entering the real economy White elephant exchanges where at least one person in the group has made a questionable financial decision recently Gifts for new employees who are about to learn that the salary negotiation conversation was more important than anyone told them Anyone who just checked their bank account and needs something to laugh about while they process Why Buy This Financial advice books cost forty dollars and tell you to make a budget, invest early, and avoid debt, which is all correct and also does not account for the specific circumstances that make all of that advice harder than it sounds in a forty-dollar book. This book costs considerably less, covers the parts the expensive books leave out, and does it with cartoon art and the resigned humor of someone who has done the math. Money doesn't grow on trees. Trees would help. In the absence of trees, this book costs roughly what a coffee habit costs per day, produces no such habit, and provides information that the coffee habit has been preventing you from engaging with. Make your own luck. The book explains what that means in practice. The practice is funnier than the phrase suggests. Buy it. Budget for it. That's step one. https://bradgosse.com/products/make-your-own-luck-practical-money-advice-for-kids-signed-copy?variant=44460112544047 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B085KKLZ1V.png?v=1675972256&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798622151200 B085KKLZ1V 543543 51587665133871 Matt the Autistic Cat Not your grandma’s bedtime story… unless your grandma enjoys chaos, profanity-free anarchy, and cats with questionable emotional regulation. Meet Matt. He’s a cat. He’s autistic. He also may or may not have brought about the downfall of the global economy because someone moved his food bowl. Again. Matt the Autistic Cat is a cartoonishly illustrated, hilariously bleak parody picture book for adults who like their humor sharp, their stories unhinged, and their protagonists deeply disturbed (but in a relatable way). If you’ve ever wanted a glimpse into the neurodivergent mind through the eyes of a furry, headphone-wearing sociopath who collects dead bugs and writes angry poetry to the moon—congratulations. This one’s for you. This isn’t a feel-good book with a sweet moral about acceptance and growth. This is a “watch your house burn down because the cat wanted silence” kind of book. It’s for people who understand that sometimes your only coping mechanism is peeing on a carpet and spinning until reality feels optional. Why should you buy this book? No really… why? You hate your job and need something to laugh at that isn’t your 401(k). You’ve got that one weird friend who would treasure this unironically. You want to explain autism to your in-laws but also start a fight at Thanksgiving. You’ve ever looked at a fridge and thought it was judging you. You need a gift for someone you lowkey resent but still want to make laugh. You’re into books that look like children’s books but will ruin an actual child’s day. Perfect for fans of dark humor, weird gag gifts, or anyone who enjoys watching anthropomorphic animals unravel in spectacular fashion. Give it as a birthday gift, a white elephant gag, a coffee table conversation-starter, or just to finally make that coworker stop talking to you. This book is for: Neurodivergent adults with a savage sense of humor People who think therapy is too expensive and laughter is cheaper Cartoon enthusiasts with unresolved childhood trauma Fans of Brad Gosse's gloriously inappropriate book empire Anyone who’s ever whispered “what the actual f***” while watching a cat do literally anything Matt the Autistic Cat doesn’t offer solutions, comfort, or structure. But it will give you a solid 10-minute laugh before you go back to pretending to be a well-adjusted adult. So go ahead—embrace the absurdity. Just don’t touch the food bowl. Warning: Not for kids. Not for Karens. Not for anyone who thinks satire should come with a moral compass. For everyone else—enjoy the ride. https://bradgosse.com/products/matt-the-autistic-cat-signed-copy?variant=51587665133871 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/c79190b1d3de60d5cf4514347035fa93.png?v=1751554734&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FGJBHH83 543543 51166956126511 Autographed Copy of a Book You’ll Regret Owning Ah yes, another children’s book that absolutely should not be read to children. But here we are. You clicked. You’re curious. Maybe you have a dark sense of humor, maybe you have a friend who deserves this literary atrocity as a gift, or maybe you just have really poor judgment. Whatever the reason, welcome to Maya Sole Gets Dirty—a charmingly depraved adventure into bodily functions, questionable hygiene habits, and the many ways one can navigate the filth of life. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to take a cute, cartoonish character and drag her through the bowels of inappropriate humor, wonder no more. Maya Sole is here to break wind unapologetically, ruin your appetite, and ensure that your book collection will never be taken seriously again. What’s Inside? Oh, you want details? Fine. Here’s what you’re signing up for: Maya Sole, blissfully unaware of the social contract that is holding in a fart in public. The catastrophic aftermath of too much spice—because life isn’t just about choices, it’s about consequences. A lesson in bidet appreciation. Yes, bidets. A whole page dedicated to the superior method of butt-cleaning. Maya learning that sometimes, clenching is the only thing standing between dignity and disaster. The dangers of skipping a wipe—because some lessons in life are learned the hard way. An elegant nod to… well, let’s just call it “backdoor appreciation” and move on before we both regret this conversation. Who Needs This Book? Honestly, no one. But that’s never stopped me before. If you’re still reading, this book is probably for you. Or maybe for that one friend who loves to make things awkward at dinner. Or for the coworker who overshares in the breakroom and deserves to be confronted with this level of honesty. It’s also great for: White elephant gift exchanges that you want to turn into permanent office scars. That one relative who keeps buying you motivational books and needs to be humbled. People who like their humor crude, their books regrettable, and their boundaries nonexistent. Anyone who thought “maybe Go the F**k to Sleep was too tame.” Why a Signed Copy? Because why not? If you’re going to own this mistake, you might as well get my signature on it to make it official. Nothing says I care like a personally signed copy of a book about bidets, farts, and other disasters of the human condition. Buy it now before common sense—or good taste—kicks in. https://bradgosse.com/products/maya-sole-gets-dirty-signed-copy?variant=51166956126511 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/6372577c1c683471475e8281ed32a428.png?v=1740072183&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0DXVVTM75 543543 44460117819695 Meet The Hipsters: Ethically Sourced And Sustainable... A Field Guide To A Species In Its Habitat Atticus keeps up with the latest trends, though he insists the trends kept up with him. Astrid's Instagram model fantasy has not yet collided with her actual follower count in a way she's acknowledged publicly. Together and separately, the hipsters of this book move through the world with a certainty about their own taste that is unassailable because it is self-referencing. This is their story. It is illustrated in cartoon art that captures the aesthetic they would have chosen for the illustration of their own story, which is part of the joke. This adult parody book is a cultural field guide to a type that everybody recognizes and half the readers of this description have at some point partially been. The satire is specific enough to sting and affectionate enough to survive. Atticus and Astrid are not villains. They are people who have made an identity out of their consumption choices in a world that encouraged them to do exactly that and then decided to be amused by the result. The book is amused. Atticus would say the book doesn't understand his vision. The book accepts this. This Book IS For: Adults who have attended a farmer's market and noticed the specific social ecosystem that forms around artisanal cheese Anyone who went through a phase they can now look back on with humor and mild recognition Fans of cultural satire that takes a real type and renders it in cartoon form without losing the accuracy Gift-givers who know exactly one person this book describes and want them to have it This Book Is NOT For: People who are currently in the phase being satirized and lack the distance to find it funny yet Anyone whose pour-over coffee ritual is a deeply held practice and not a personality, and for whom the distinction matters Readers who feel that a love of quality, independent products should be respected rather than examined Atticus, who will not find this funny, which is exactly what Atticus would do Appropriate For: Gifts for the friend who just opened an Etsy shop, a sourdough Instagram, or any small batch anything White elephant exchanges in cities where this type has critical mass and the recognition is immediate Housewarming gifts for someone who has described their new apartment's aesthetic as "curated" Any occasion where you want to give something that says "I see you and I find you hilarious and also I support you" Why Buy This A book about hipsters sold at a mass market price point to be given as a gift is a hipster paradox that the book itself would appreciate if it didn't need to maintain ironic distance from its own appreciation. You can think about that as long as you want. The book is not waiting. It's already at a pop-up market in a repurposed shipping container. Buy it for the Atticus in your life. Buy it for someone who used to be Atticus and has since gotten a real job and gained perspective. Buy it for yourself if you have ever described anything you consume as "small batch." The hipsters are ethically sourced. They are sustainable. They are very well documented here. The field guide is now available and it is, somewhat problematically, a mass market product. https://bradgosse.com/products/meet-the-hipsters-ethically-sourced-and-sustainable-signed-copy?variant=44460117819695 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0851LS2XZ.png?v=1675972348&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798616543394 B0851LS2XZ 543543 44460104581423 Meet The Karens: They're Angry And They Want Attention... A Field Guide To A Species That Will Find This And Complain Karen can't seem to mind her own business and also believes there is a war on Christmas that started specifically because of things she said and her contributions were not acknowledged. The Karens in this book have opinions about your choices, your service level, your parking, your children's behavior, and the general direction of a society that has not done nearly enough to align with what Karen needs it to be. They want attention. They are getting it. This book is that attention, illustrated in cartoon form, with the grim cheerfulness of a field guide to a species that will absolutely find this and consider the cover. This adult parody book is satire of a recognizable cultural type that exists in sufficient quantity to make almost everyone in the audience think of a specific person immediately upon hearing the name. That person is the target. The book is the observation. The observation is accurate enough to generate recognition and funny enough to keep the recognition from being only sad. The Karens are real. The book sees them. They have not yet decided how they feel about being seen. This Book IS For: Anyone who has been on the receiving end of a customer complaint that lasted longer than the transaction that triggered it Service industry workers who have seen more Karens in a single shift than this book contains in total Fans of satire that documents a real type with enough accuracy to feel like journalism Gift-givers who want to hand someone something that makes them immediately think of three people they know This Book Is NOT For: People named Karen who have been told this satire doesn't apply to them and believe that Anyone who has filed more than two formal complaints in the past calendar year about things that were not legally actionable Readers who believe this type of satire "punches down" at people who are "just advocating for themselves" Karens, though statistically several will buy this and miss the point in a way that confirms the entire premise Appropriate For: Gifts for retail and service industry workers who deserve recognition of what they are dealing with White elephant exchanges where someone in the group has shared a Karen story in the past year Any work setting where the concept has come up in a meeting in a way everyone immediately understood Gifts for the friend who has been on the receiving end of a Karen and needs to laugh about it in illustrated form Why Buy This The Karen phenomenon costs the economy billions of dollars annually in wasted service time, escalated management calls, and the specific toll of maintaining professionalism while being talked to in a way that would be unacceptable in any other social context. This book processes that cost through satire for less money than one manager escalation takes to resolve. It is, in that sense, an extremely efficient use of resources... which is the one thing Karen and this book have in common. One reviewer called a book in this series "degenerate and morally corrupt," which is the most Karen review ever written about a book called Meet The Karens, and which should function as a five-star endorsement for everyone else. The Karens are angry. The Karens want attention. This book provides it. The book is also available at a price that Karen will consider surprisingly reasonable, which means she will buy it for a niece, miss the entire point, and somehow get a refund anyway. https://bradgosse.com/products/meet-the-karens-theyre-angry-and-they-want-attention-signed-copy?variant=44460104581423 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0857CBSW5.png?v=1675972150&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798618520300 B0857CBSW5 543543 50239511265583 Mike Hawke Gets Hard... A Softness Problem That Required Immediate And Sustained Attention Mike Hawke was getting soft and limp. Mike Hawke needed to get hard and stop being soft. This is the story of Mike Hawke's efforts to address this situation through what appears to be a rigorous program of exercise, discipline, and physical conditioning. Mike Hawke is committed to getting hard. Mike Hawke does not want to be soft anymore. The neighbors have noticed the transformation. The dedication is admirable. This book documents every stage of Mike Hawke getting hard with illustrated cartoon art and the complete, unflinching sincerity of a fitness journey that the book has decided to narrate without commentary. This is a book about a man named Mike Hawke and his physical fitness journey, and the name is a coincidence, and the fitness journey is the subject matter, and any interpretation of "Mike Hawke getting hard" that does not involve fitness is being projected onto a story about exercise by a reader who should probably examine their own assumptions. Mike Hawke is exercising. The results are documented. The hardness is a fitness achievement. That is the complete interpretation that this book endorses. This Book IS For: Adults who have appreciated the Mike name-based humor series and need the full collection for completeness Fitness enthusiasts who also have a sense of humor about the specific vocabulary of physical transformation Anyone who has ever had to read a fitness article with completely professional detachment despite the vocabulary Gift-givers who want to hand someone a Mike Hawke book and watch comprehension arrive on its own schedule This Book Is NOT For: People who find the Mike name series less funny upon the third or fourth encounter, which is an unpopular but valid position Fitness professionals who feel their field's transformation vocabulary has been used in a context they didn't consent to Readers who need fitness narratives to be treated with the gravity that long-term physical wellness deserves Anyone named Mike Hawke who did not see this coming and is reconsidering several life choices simultaneously Appropriate For: Gift sets that include Mike Hunt, Mike Lit, and Mike Huck for the complete Mike collection experience White elephant exchanges where the name alone will carry the entire interaction without the book needing to be opened Gym gift bags for the friend who starts every January with fitness goals and a vocabulary that benefits from this Gag gifts for anyone in your life who understands that the name was the joke before the book was opened Why Buy This The Mike series is, at this point, a legitimate literary franchise based entirely on the observation that certain names in combination with certain verbs create a specific comedic effect that never gets old no matter how many times you encounter it. This is Mike Hawke's entry in the series. Mike Hawke gets hard. The journey is documented. The results are visible. The name is the whole thing and the whole thing is worth every cent. Mike Hawke did not want to be soft anymore. He took action. He got hard. The book exists as proof that it is possible, with effort and commitment, to go from soft to hard, and that the story of that journey is worth documenting and purchasing and giving to someone who will laugh about the name before they open the cover. Mike Hawke is hard now. The book is available now. The connection between those two things is the entire gift. https://bradgosse.com/products/mike-hawke-gets-hard-signed-copy?variant=50239511265583 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0D8Q2N5ZT.png?v=1720546044&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0D8Q2N5ZT 543543 44460099928367 Mike Huck... A Marriage In Shambles, A Name That Explains Everything Mike Huck has a marriage in shambles. His wife cheats on him. The name Mike Huck does not help the situation because everyone who hears it immediately understands why the marriage might have the structural issues it does, and whether the name is the cause or merely the commentary is a philosophical question this book does not engage with. The marriage is what it is. Mike Huck is navigating. The name follows Mike Huck everywhere he goes, which is everywhere the marriage has already gone wrong, and the book documents this with illustrated cartoon art and the resigned humor of a man who has heard every possible interpretation of his name and has nothing left to be surprised by. This entry in the Mike series focuses on the domestic situation rather than the professional or physical transformations documented in companion volumes. Mike Huck's marriage is complicated. Mike Huck's wife has interests outside the marriage. Mike Huck's name makes the situation feel pre-written, like a caption that arrived before the photo. The book is the photo. The name is the caption. The marriage is what the caption implies. This Book IS For: Fans of the Mike series who want the relationship-focused installment to round out the collection Anyone who has ever met someone with a name that seemed to predict their situation and found the symmetry undeniable People navigating relationship humor from a safe fictional distance provided by cartoon art and a man named Mike Huck Gift-givers looking for a book that earns its laugh from the name alone and then earns additional laughs from everything that follows This Book Is NOT For: People currently in the Mike Huck situation who are not yet at the humor stage of their processing Marriage counselors who find this take on infidelity insufficiently constructive for their professional framework Readers who need relationship-centered humor to end with reconciliation, growth, and renewed commitment Anyone named Mike Huck in real life who has managed to remain unaware of the implications and would prefer to stay that way Appropriate For: Divorce parties, which are now a real social occasion, and Mike Huck is this occasion's patron saint White elephant exchanges where the name will produce the reaction before anyone touches the wrapping Bachelorette parties... Mike Huck is cautionary tale content and cautionary tales are bachelorette party content Collected alongside other Mike volumes for the fan who needs the full domestic and physical arc of the Mike universe Why Buy This The Mike series has identified something true about the comedy of names: that a name can carry an entire emotional situation in the sound of its syllables, and that finding the character whose name matches their circumstances is the entire premise, and that premise is somehow funny every single time across every single Mike with a different vowel configuration. Mike Huck is the marriage Mike. The marriage is what the name suggests. The book is honest about both. Buy it individually. Buy it as part of the Mike collection. Give it to someone navigating a situation that feels Huck-adjacent. Give it to someone who will immediately think of someone else and text that person a photo of the cover. The marriage is in shambles. The book is available. The name says everything. Some names are just like that. https://bradgosse.com/products/mike-huck-signed-copy?variant=44460099928367 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0BTGFS26Q.png?v=1675972066&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798352186008 B0BTGFS26Q 543543 52345190121775 Mike Hum: The Ultimate Master in a World of Sticky Adventures Step into the wildly entertaining universe of Mike Hum Delivers Cream Pies, where everyday life gets a hilarious, adult twist through clever wordplay and strange illustrations. This collection of over 30 comic pages follows the misadventures of Mike Hum, a character whose name alone sets the stage for endless double entendres. From delivering "cream pies" in unexpected ways to navigating gooey predicaments, each page is crafted to deliver punchy humor that lingers long after the laugh. Imagine Mike Hum as the unsuspecting hero in scenarios that blend innocence with innuendo. In one panel, he gets a load straight from a dump truck. Another shows him whipping up gooey white gravy that's perfect for any meal, highlighting his culinary creativity with a wink. Whether he's planting seeds in fertile soil or ensuring everything stays so white and so clean, Mike's world is packed with protein-rich surprises and sticky friendships that glue people together. This book isn't just cartoons; it's a celebration of gross puns that transform mundane activities into risqué delights. Sometimes he sleeps in a dirty sock, needs hydration to stay fresh, or gets dusty if left alone too long, leading to crusty outcomes that are comically relatable yet boldly adult. Mike Hum may get salty when things don't go his way, adding flavor to every interaction. He shoots for the sky in basketball, always aiming high with his deliveries. Expect perfect cream pies that satisfy every craving, baked with love and a dash of mischief. Mike loves big nuts, appreciating the simple joys that make life nutty and fun. His pineapple habit ensures everything tastes sweet, a tropical twist on ordinary days. When he makes a mess, it's a glorious, gooey spectacle that's hard to clean up. Pretend it's no matter. Mike's philosophy for handling life's sticky situations with ease. Thick like pancake batter, his essence is rich and ready for any recipe. From creamy white pearls, he crafts necklaces that sparkle with humorous elegance. With a big wad in hand, Mike blows it all on the girls, spreading joy generously. Mike makes good gravy for family dinners, offers tasty delights to friends, or smells like bleach after a thorough clean. He's clingy when he wants to be, sticking to those he cares about, and always sprays with precision. The illustrations are simple yet expressive, featuring bald-headed characters in blue backgrounds that keep the focus on the puns and visuals without distraction. So packed with protein: Fuel your laughter with nutrient-dense humor. A tasty delight: Each bite-sized comic is flavorful and satisfying. And hates tissues too: Because why waste when you can embrace the mess? Mike will be crusty: A reminder that timing is everything in comedy. Shoots for the sky: Aspiring to new heights in every endeavor. Will deliver: Reliability wrapped in hilarious packaging. Loves big nuts: Celebrating variety in all forms. Stains bed sheets: The inevitable mark of passionate pursuits. Has pineapple: For that extra sweetness in life. Makes it sweet: Turning ordinary into extraordinary with charm. Perfect for adults who appreciate edgy, irreverent comedy, this book pushes boundaries with bold themes while keeping the tone light and playful. Fans of pun-based humor, like those in The Far Side or online meme culture, will find endless enjoyment in Mike's antics. It's a quick read that's ideal for coffee tables, bathrooms, or anywhere you need a dose of laughter to brighten your day. Warning: Contains mature, adult-oriented humor. Reader discretion advised. https://bradgosse.com/products/mike-hum-delivers-cream-pies-signed-copy?variant=52345190121775 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/8b707c951e16cdea85a754f01546134b.png?v=1767791308&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0GFF1R8Z5 543543 55543221780783 24 pages of bald stick-figure Mike Hum doing wholesome activities that sound filthy when you say them out loud. Drawn like every sanitized board book your toddler owns, except the text is pure bathroom-humor wordplay. No plot, no morals, no redeeming qualities. Just one long setup-punchline parade. Why buy this thing? Because normal gag gifts are expensive and forgettable. This one costs less than a craft beer and will embarrass whoever opens it in mixed company. It's the perfect low-effort way to say "I know exactly how juvenile you are" without saying a word. Also, it photographs well for passive-aggressive group chats. Who's it actually for? Grown adults who still laugh at "that's what she said" People shopping for white-elephant parties, secret Santa, or that one coworker who sends dick-joke memes at 2 a.m. Anyone who owns more Funko Pops than bookshelves Dads/uncles/brothers who think "nut milk" is peak comedy You, if you're reading this description past the first paragraph Who's it absolutely not for? Anyone under 18 (they'll miss the joke and you'll have to explain it... nightmare) Your religious aunt who still forwards chain emails about prayer People who say "that's inappropriate" unironically Book clubs, teachers, clergy, anyone on a purity journey HR after the holiday party Every panel looks like it belongs in a pediatrician's waiting room. None of them do. The art is deliberately terrible... big round head, no neck, zero anatomy... because talent would ruin the joke. No life advice. No inspiration. No "you are enough" nonsense. Just dumb, cheap laughs from a guy who peaked in middle school and never left. If that description made you smirk even a little, buy it. If it made you recoil, good news: Amazon has 4.7 million other titles. Your move. https://bradgosse.com/products/mike-hum-gives-good-facials-signed-copy?variant=55543221780783 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/2c2d22bae9205251c8e45fae8dbf05bb.png?v=1774012376&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0GT4GXKFM 543543 50239510020399 Mike Hunt 2: Getting Stuffed... The Sequel To The Investigation That Just Keeps Expanding Mike Hunt delivers babies. Mike Hunt loves eating out. Mike Hunt loves a good stuffing. This is the second installment in the Mike Hunt investigation, and the activities documented have expanded considerably from the original scope. Mike Hunt is a professional in multiple senses of the word, and those senses are all represented here in illustrated cartoon form with the systematic thoroughness of a continuing series that knows exactly what it is doing and has never once considered stopping. Mike Hunt is getting stuffed. This is fine. This is the sequel. The investigation continues. The Mike Hunt series operates on the recognition that certain name-and-verb combinations produce a specific comedic effect that does not diminish with repetition, only deepens. Delivering babies. Eating out. Getting stuffed. Each activity is documented. Each activity is cartoon-illustrated. Each activity involving Mike Hunt is narrated with the same professional sincerity that has characterized the entire series. Mike Hunt does not acknowledge the second meaning of his name or his activities. The book does not explain it. The reader provides the explanation for themselves. This is the system. This Book IS For: Fans of the original Mike Hunt book who needed to see where Mike Hunt goes from there and got their answer Anyone who has found that Mike Hunt humor does not wear out and remains funny across multiple volumes and repeated readings People who appreciate the comedic principle that certain setups become funnier the more seriously they're committed to Gift-givers who want to give the complete Mike Hunt experience and need the second volume to complete it This Book Is NOT For: People who found the first Mike Hunt book sufficient and do not need Mike Hunt getting stuffed as well Readers who have reached their personal limit for Mike Hunt-based comedy and need to step away for a while Anyone who thinks the sequel will subvert or transcend the formula rather than commit harder to it People who are eating during this description and have not thought it through Appropriate For: Thanksgiving gift situations where "Mike Hunt Getting Stuffed" achieves perfect seasonal relevance White elephant exchanges where the name will produce the full comedic reaction before anyone has touched the book Completing the Mike Hunt collection alongside volume one for the full documented experience Any occasion where you want to hand someone a book and say nothing and let the cover do all of the work Why Buy This Sequels exist because the original created demand. The Mike Hunt series has created demand in the specific way that humor about certain proper names creates demand: by being funny the first time and funnier every subsequent time because the joke is in the name and the name never changes. Mike Hunt delivers babies. Mike Hunt loves eating out. Mike Hunt is getting stuffed. This series is a complete and honest account of a man named Mike Hunt doing things that are activities. Buy the sequel. Buy it alongside the original. Buy it for Thanksgiving, specifically, because Mike Hunt getting stuffed at Thanksgiving is a gift that understands the season in a way most seasonal gifts do not. The investigation continues. Mike Hunt has more to do. The cartoon illustrations document everything. The name is on the cover and the name is the whole thing. https://bradgosse.com/products/mike-hunt-2-getting-stuffed-signed-copy?variant=50239510020399 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CW6B567R.png?v=1720546024&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0CW6B567R 543543 44460099797295 Mike Hunt Smells Like Fish... The Olfactory Investigation Nobody Requested And Everyone Will Remember Mike Hunt smells like fish. Mike Hunt gets so hairy. Sometimes Mike Hunt bleeds. These are facts about Mike Hunt that are documented in illustrated cartoon form with the clinical neutrality of a medical case file and the tone of a children's book about a person named Mike Hunt who has a range of notable characteristics. The book covers the smell. The book covers the hair situation. The book covers the occasional bleeding that Mike Hunt experiences. All of it is fully documented. None of it is what you think. Some of it is exactly what you think. The book trusts you to sort that out. The Mike Hunt name-based humor series continues in this volume, which focuses on Mike Hunt's physical characteristics in ways that the previous volumes' focus on his professional activities did not cover. The name remains the joke. The physical description makes the name land differently. The cartoon art presents Mike Hunt as a character with these documented traits in a way that maintains the complete plausible deniability of the series while delivering the complete comedic payload that makes the series worth buying in multiple volumes. Mike Hunt smells. The book smells like a gift. This Book IS For: Fans of the Mike Hunt series who need the physical description volume to feel the collection is complete Anyone whose appreciation for name-based humor scales up rather than wearing down with additional exposure People who have shared the Mike Hunt books with friends and been specifically asked about the fish smell volume Gift-givers who want to hand someone a book and watch the cover alone generate the full comedic return This Book Is NOT For: Readers who have reached a point of Mike Hunt fatigue and need to let the name rest for a calendar quarter Anyone who will read "Mike Hunt smells like fish" and feel nothing, which is either admirable restraint or a concerning deficit People who believe medical characteristics should be discussed in appropriate clinical settings rather than illustrated children's book parody Anyone with a name that produces a similar effect and has been dealing with it their whole life without the benefit of finding it funny Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where reading the title aloud to the room is the entire gift-giving experience Bachelorette parties... "Mike Hunt smells like fish" is bachelorette party content and you already know why Completing the Mike Hunt triptych: Smells Like Fish, Getting Stuffed, and the original for the full experience Gifts for the person in your life who introduced you to Mike Hunt humor and deserves the complete documentation of his characteristics Why Buy This The Mike Hunt franchise is one of the most consistent comedy series operating today based on the simple observation that a name can contain an entire joke in its syllables and that joke is funnier the more seriously you treat it. Mike Hunt smells like fish. The book is serious about this. The book covers the hair. The book covers the bleeding. The book maintains complete seriousness about Mike Hunt throughout. That seriousness is the whole reason the name lands. The name always lands. That's why there are multiple volumes. Buy this. Buy the complete Mike Hunt collection. Give it to someone who appreciates that a joke executed with perfect deadpan commitment over an illustrated book is more satisfying than a joke delivered directly. Mike Hunt's characteristics are documented. His smell is confirmed. The gift is ready. The name says everything that needs to be said before anyone opens the cover. That's a gift that works before it's given. That's efficient gifting. Mike Hunt would appreciate the efficiency, probably. https://bradgosse.com/products/mike-hunt-smells-like-fish-signed-copy?variant=44460099797295 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0BD2CQPBH.png?v=1675972063&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798352186008 B0BD2CQPBH 543543 44460100059439 Mike Lit Shouldn't Be Hard To Find... The Sensitive Mike In The Series Who Deserves Recognition Mike Lit is sensitive. Mike Lit doesn't hide. Mike Lit shouldn't be very hard to find once you know what you're looking for, which this book will explain in illustrated cartoon form with the same patient seriousness that has characterized the entire Mike series. Mike Lit is a character with specific properties: sensitivity, visibility, and an apparent commitment to being located by those who are looking. The book covers where Mike Lit is, what Mike Lit is like, and why finding Mike Lit is a goal worth pursuing with some persistence and the right approach. The Mike series expands in this volume to include what is arguably the most important Mike in terms of audience wellbeing and satisfaction, though that assessment may be subjective. Mike Lit joins Mike Hunt, Mike Hawke, and Mike Huck in a series that has identified something fundamental about the comedy of names and then executed on that identification across multiple volumes with complete and total commitment. Mike Lit is sensitive. That is important information. The book provides it. This Book IS For: Fans of the Mike series who noticed the name "Mike Lit" and understood immediately what it implied and why it belongs in the collection People who appreciate that the series had the specific idea to name the sensitive Mike what it named him Anyone who wants to complete the Mike collection and understands this volume's unique contribution to the canon Gift-givers attending a bachelorette party who want to bring the most specifically appropriate Mike volume for the occasion This Book Is NOT For: People who have not been following the Mike series and would find this volume confusing without the broader context Readers who feel that this particular Mike should not be the subject of illustrated humor regardless of the series precedent Anyone who finds that the sensitivity angle of this volume is less funny than the other Mikes' defining characteristics People in environments where the cover of this book would require more explanation than the cover is worth providing Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... Mike Lit is arguably the bachelorette party's most thematically resonant Mike White elephant exchanges where whoever holds this book last gets the specific recognition they deserve Completing the Mike collection alongside Mike Hunt, Mike Hawke, and Mike Huck for the full canonical experience Gifts for the person in your life who will understand immediately why Mike Lit being sensitive matters narratively Why Buy This The Mike series is a collection of books about men named Mike whose names contain within them the subject matter of the book. Mike Lit is sensitive. Finding Mike Lit requires knowing what you're looking for and approaching with the right touch. The book provides guidance on both counts, with cartoon art, and with the same perfectly maintained seriousness that makes the whole series work. Sensitivity is the defining characteristic. The name tells you everything. The book confirms it. Buy it. Add it to the collection. Give it to someone who will check the name, process the name, and then look at you in a specific way that confirms they understood what you brought. That look is the entire gift. Mike Lit is there. Mike Lit is sensitive. Mike Lit shouldn't be hard to find. Once you find him, the book is yours, and the collection is complete, and you have given someone something that will not be confused with any other gift they received this year. https://bradgosse.com/products/mike-lit-shouldnt-be-hard-to-find-signed-copy?variant=44460100059439 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0BLGBKKBP.png?v=1675972070&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798362039639 B0BLGBKKBP 543543 44460112675119 Mixed Animals Are Unique Just Like You... A Genetics Lesson Delivered Via Cartoon Hybrids Your mom and dad came from different breeds. These animals will help make it easier to understand what that means, how it works, and why the result is something that doesn't fit neatly into any single category but is, as the title asserts, unique. The mixed animals in this book are various combinations of animals that don't typically combine. They exist. They are illustrated. They are unique in the specific way that all mixed things are unique, which is both self-evidently true and the source of every joke and observation the book is going to make across its illustrated pages. This adult parody book addresses mixed-race identity through the lens of cartoon hybrid animals with the cheerful earnestness of a children's book about diversity that has decided to be more honest about the experience of being a hybrid in a world of categories. The animals are funny. The underlying subject is real. The gap between the cartoon animals and the actual conversation being had is where the book lives, and the book is comfortable there, making jokes that are also observations and observations that land like jokes. This Book IS For: Mixed-race adults who have been on the receiving end of the "what are you?" conversation and need something to laugh about People who appreciate humor that addresses real identity experiences through the protective medium of cartoon hybrid animals Fans of comedy that is also actually about something, even when it's being delivered via a cat-dog illustration Gift-givers who want to give something specific and recognizable to someone whose experience with mixed identity they understand This Book Is NOT For: People who believe mixed-race identity is too serious to be addressed through illustrated animal humor regardless of the target audience's preferences Anyone who wants a straightforward diversity book with clear moral takeaways and no cartoon animals doing things Readers who need their hybrid animal characters to resolve neatly into accepted categories by the end Anyone not equipped to engage with this subject matter through comedy without making the comedy feel like the problem Appropriate For: Gifts for mixed-race friends who have specifically told you they find this kind of humor cathartic and correct White elephant exchanges in diverse groups where the recognition will be immediate and the appreciation widespread Anyone whose family photo has a "what are you?" energy from strangers and has made peace with finding it funny Occasions where you want to give something that is both funny and specific to someone's actual experience Why Buy This Most books about diversity cost more than this and approach their subject with an earnestness that is well-intentioned but can feel like homework. This book approaches its subject with cartoon hybrid animals and the specific humor of someone who has had the conversations that mixed identity generates and decided to process those conversations in illustrated parody form. That is a different and arguably more useful kind of diversity content. You are unique. The mixed animals are unique. The unicorn-labrador is unique. None of them asked to be categorized and all of them are dealing with it in their own way, which this book documents with cartoon art and the humor of recognition. Buy it for someone who will know immediately that you picked it specifically for them. That knowledge is the real gift. The cartoon hybrid animals are a bonus. https://bradgosse.com/products/mixed-animals-are-unique-just-like-you-signed-copy?variant=44460112675119 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08XFMBPYZ.png?v=1675972259&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798713387563 B08XFMBPYZ 543543 50978913714479 Brace yourself for the most uncomfortable, darkly comedic gag book to hit shelves—Moe Lester. This book takes cringe to new depths and drags readers through the disturbingly absurd life of Moe Lester, a character whose very existence is a punchline wrapped in a moral panic. If you’re looking for a book that will raise eyebrows, ruin friendships, and leave people questioning your sense of humor, congratulations. You’ve found it. Moe Lester is a man of many... peculiar habits. He’s a frequent flyer at the local park, the town fair, and just about anywhere he can awkwardly inject himself into people’s lives. He drives a van that’s just a little too clean, offers rides no one asked for, and has an unhealthy obsession with phrases like “free hugs” and “mentorship.” Moe claims his past is “unique” and insists his intentions are “misunderstood,” but let’s face it: nobody’s buying it, and neither should you. From teaching magic tricks at the Y to handing out balloons in a suspiciously familiar clown suit, Moe’s activities push every boundary of appropriateness—and then some. Whether he’s lurking near the playground, promising ice cream to kids in the least comforting way possible, or spouting phrases like “age is just a number,” Moe Lester is the ultimate walking red flag. Each page of this book is a cringe-filled showcase of Moe’s misguided attempts to blend in while sticking out for all the wrong reasons. The dark humor is paired with bright, colorful illustrations that only make the absurdity more unsettling—and hilarious. This is the book you’ll regret giving, but love watching someone else open. It’s perfect for white elephant parties where you want to ensure nobody invites you back, gag gifts that blur the line between funny and horrifying, or for that friend who thrives on the most inappropriate humor possible. With its razor-sharp satire and relentless absurdity, Moe Lester is the ultimate gag gift for those who aren’t afraid to laugh at life’s most uncomfortable punchlines. But be warned: this book isn’t for the faint of heart—or the easily offended. So, grab your copy of Moe Lester, and prepare to cringe, laugh, and question humanity all at once. Because if there’s one thing Moe knows how to do, it’s make “Stranger Danger” a reality. https://bradgosse.com/products/moe-lester-signed-copy?variant=50978913714479 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/b2e86ab8e235dc42756b919c6c7b3f63.png?v=1738517606&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0DVR9J53Z 543543 44460108349743 Mom + Dad + Chad: Your Parents Have Formed A Triad... A Household Update That Requires More Than One Conversation Mom and dad were bored. This is the starting point. The chores had become the entire personality of the household, date nights had failed, hobbies had failed, the toys had not resolved anything in the way that was hoped. So mom did some research. Mom presented an idea. The idea was that they date new people, together, for a change. This is when Chad entered the picture. Chad has a name that works very well in this context, which is not Chad's fault, and Chad is moving right in, and this book is the announcement of that arrangement in illustrated nursery-rhyme form, because the nursery-rhyme form was the only format equal to what needed to be communicated. This adult parody book documents the specific domestic renegotiation that the polyamory conversation represents, delivered through the cheerful simplicity of illustrated verse and a cast that now includes a co-father named Chad who did not arrive via the traditional route but is here now and dad seems okay with it. Skip along and count to three. The book covers what happens between "mom did some research" and "we're normalizing polyamory" and the illustrated journey between those two points is the whole gift. This Book IS For: Adults who are familiar with the contemporary relationship landscape and find the nursery-rhyme treatment of polyamory the correct satirical angle Fans of parody that takes a culturally specific modern phenomenon and places it in the most incongruous possible illustrated format Anyone who has had a conversation about household restructuring that required several follow-up conversations Gift-givers with a specific target in mind... specifically the person in their orbit whose living situation now includes a Chad This Book Is NOT For: People who practice ethical non-monogamy and feel that the nursery rhyme format is not the representation they were hoping for Parents who introduced a new partner to their household and are not ready for the illustrated satirical version Readers who need the modern relationship structures addressed with the seriousness of a long-form essay rather than illustrated verse Anyone named Chad who is about to be handed this book in a context that will require explanation Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties where the guest of honor has opinions about modern relationship structures and a tolerance for this framing White elephant exchanges among adults who have discussed polyamory at least once and have a shared framework for the Chad variable Gag gifts for anyone in your orbit whose family situation has recently expanded in a direction that involves a new name Divorce parties, new relationship parties, or any occasion marking a significant household configuration update Why Buy This The modern relationship conversation is happening everywhere: in think pieces, in podcasts, in long text thread discussions that nobody knows how to end. This book has the same conversation in rhyming illustrated verse in about three minutes, and it lands with the specific combination of recognition and absurdity that makes something genuinely funny rather than just topical. Mom did the research. Chad is here. Dad adjusted. The nursery rhyme has been updated accordingly. Buy it for someone whose family announcement required multiple calls to explain. Buy it for someone who has heard the polyamory conversation enough times they need the illustrated version. Buy it for anyone who will hear "Skip along and count to three / We're normalizing polyamory" and know immediately who they're giving this to next. The triad is formed. Chad has arrived. The book documents the arrival. The art is charming. The situation is what it is. https://bradgosse.com/products/mom-dad-chad-your-parents-have-formed-a-triad-signed-copy?variant=44460108349743 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08L41B6B9.png?v=1675972187&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798696956428 B08L41B6B9 543543 44460100354351 Nothing Says “Family Values” Like Watching Mom and Dad Swap Partners “Mom and Dad’s Swinger Party” is the children’s-style picture book for adults that finally answers the question: what if Mom went online and found new friends… who also want to sleep over? This dark humor joke book is written in a delightfully inappropriate rhyming format, paired with cheery illustrations that should absolutely not be this cheerful. It’s a gag gift for anyone who’s ever wondered what goes on in the suburbs after the kids go to bed—and then immediately regretted asking. The Only Book Where a Bowl of Car Keys is a Plot Point In this deeply unsettling tale, Mom and Dad aren’t just “making new friends”—they’re coordinating logistics, signing contracts, and prepping the snack table. There's a unicorn, a bowl of keys, condoms color-coded like party favors, and enough implied trauma to justify a decade of therapy. And don’t worry—everyone sleeps over. Loudly. Perfect for People with Questionable Taste (So, All of Us) If you’re looking for the best gag gift book for adults who laugh at the wrong things, this is it. Ideal for: White elephant gift exchanges that go off the rails Secret Santa gifts that require an HR debrief Birthday gifts for people you probably shouldn’t be friends with Adult novelty book collectors with no shame Inside These Innocent-Looking Pages: Rhymes that sound sweet… until you actually read them Illustrations that make you question your childhood Key parties, unicorn hunting, and group “movie nights” The phrase “give balloons to the boys” (you’re welcome) Disturbingly Wholesome-Looking. Aggressively Not Wholesome. Written in the style of a bedtime story but intended for adults who know better, “Mom and Dad’s Swinger Party” is the kind of dark humor book that gets passed around the office until HR finds it. It’s weird, it’s wild, and it’s a surefire way to clear out your holiday party early. Searches No One Should Ever Have to Type But Will Help You Find This Anyway: joke book for adults gag gift dark humor book swinger parody funny adult books novelty books for terrible people Give It to a Friend. Or an Enemy. Same Difference. This book doesn’t just cross the line—it seduces it with a contract and a safe word. If you like your comedy uncomfortable, unsanitary, and wrapped in cartoon innocence, then this is the book you didn’t know you needed. Disclaimer: Not for kids. Not safe for work. Not emotionally recoverable. https://bradgosse.com/products/mom-and-dads-swinger-party-signed-copy?variant=44460100354351 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0BRYZNGBR.png?v=1675972076&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798373187442 B0BRYZNGBR 543543 51685342511407 Mom Likes to be Choked: Guide to Everyday Kinks A cheerful bedtime story for adults who grew up, got weird, and stayed that way. Let’s be honest, life is hard, bills are overdue, and your childhood dreams died the moment you stepped into your first cubicle. So why not treat yourself (or some poor jerk you call a friend) to a colourful, crass, and unapologetically kinky parody book that tackles the birds and the butt-plugs of modern-day kink culture? “Mom Likes to be Choked: Guide to Everyday Kinks” is the perfect gift for people who are equal parts dirty-minded and dead inside. Written in the sugary sweet cadence of a children's book, but with very adult themes, this illustrated guide walks you through everything from spanking and ropes to foot worship and gas masks (because of course it does). Presented by a cast of wide-eyed cartoon animals who have clearly seen some things, this book is less about educating and more about escalating. It doesn’t pull punches, it pulls hair (with consent, obviously). Inside these pages, you’ll find: Cute animals doing filthy things in a delightfully innocent art style Rhyming stanzas that would make a kindergarten teacher choke on their pearls A cynical but strangely wholesome celebration of kink, consent, and how deeply weird adulthood has become Perfect for: The friend who overshares at brunch Your favorite sex-positive coworker (you know the one) A bachelorette party that got wildly out of hand Couples therapy gone rogue A passive-aggressive gift for your prudish aunt Anyone who’s too jaded for Hallmark cards and too pervy for Jesus Is it educational? Maybe a little. Is it safe for work? Absolutely not. Will it make you laugh so hard you spit out your lukewarm boxed wine? We hope so. But most importantly, this book reminds you that we’re all a little twisted, and that’s okay. (Unless you’re into feet. Then it’s definitely not okay. Just kidding. Mostly.) So grab a copy, gift it to a friend, or leave it on your coffee table for guests to question your taste in literature. It's a cringe-inducing, boundary-blurring, eye-roll-inducing celebration of what makes us... well, not boring. Because if you’re going to be unhinged, you might as well rhyme about it. https://bradgosse.com/products/mom-likes-to-be-choked-signed-copy?variant=51685342511407 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/a76e5a437df51a09783ab62fccbd6d6b.png?v=1753794031&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FKBCK9M8 543543 44460101042479 Mom Runs Trains On The Weekend With Dad's Friends... A Career Day Presentation With Unexpected Details It's career day at school. The narrator is so proud of mom. Mom runs trains. On the weekend. With Dad's friends. The presentation covers what running trains involves, who the friends are, and why this activity takes up weekends specifically, and all of this information is delivered with the uncomplicated pride of a child presenting a parent's profession to a classroom that is composed of adults reading this book right now. The teacher in this book has a reaction. The classroom has a reaction. The narrator does not yet understand the reaction. This is documented. This adult parody book takes a phrase that exists in contemporary slang and places it inside a career day presentation narrated by a child with complete innocent confidence, which is the exact format that produces the exact comedic effect this book is going for. Mom runs trains. The audience knows what that means. The child does not know what that means. The gap between those two understandings is the entire joke, and the book sustains it across every illustrated page with the specific energy of someone who found a sentence and decided to build a whole book around it. Correctly. This Book IS For: Adults who are familiar with the contemporary meaning of "running trains" and find the career day context absolutely perfect Fans of humor that operates through a child narrator's complete innocence about what they are narrating Anyone who has encountered slang in a professional or family context and had to manage their reaction carefully Gift-givers who want to hand someone a career day book about mom that will cause a specific and recognizable reaction This Book Is NOT For: People who are not familiar with the slang meaning and will read this as a book about trains, which is not incorrect but misses the whole thing Readers who find the child narrator framing less funny than the direct approach and would prefer the book be honest Anyone in a context where "mom runs trains" would need to be explained and the explanation would be worse than the book Career day participants who have genuine train-related professions and feel this diminishes their industry Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... Mom runs trains is bachelorette energy and the book understands this White elephant exchanges where the title will generate the reaction before anyone touches the wrapping paper Gag gifts for the friend who uses this phrase and needs to see it in illustrated career day format Any occasion where you want a book that earns its laugh from a single phrase executed with complete narrative commitment Why Buy This Career day is a school institution built on the premise that children should understand what their parents do for work. This book honors that institution. It shows up for career day. It presents mom's professional activities clearly and with illustrated pride. The classroom's reaction is not the book's problem. The book came prepared. The book did the presentation. What the adults in the room do with the information is the audience's responsibility. Mom runs trains. The book documents it. The career day audience processes it. The narrator is proud of mom regardless. Buy it for someone who will read the title and immediately understand what's been given to them and why. That understanding is the gift. The book is just the physical form the gift takes. Mom runs trains. On the weekend. With Dad's friends. The presentation has been submitted. https://bradgosse.com/products/mom-runs-trains-on-the-weekend-with-dads-friends-signed-copy?variant=44460101042479 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09S6BF3ZS.png?v=1675972089&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798415543205 B09S6BF3ZS 543543 44886912303407 Mom's Crystals Won't Save Your Pop Pop... A Healing Journey That Is Not Going To Heal This Particular Thing Pop Pop is not well. Mom is very well supplied with healing crystals. These two facts are in tension with each other in a way that the medical literature does not support resolving in the crystals' favor, but mom has not checked the medical literature because she has been at the crystal shop. This book documents mom's commitment to vibrational healing, the crystals involved, the money allocated to those crystals, and the ongoing medical situation with Pop Pop that the crystals are, statistically, not meaningfully addressing. Mom is trying. The crystals are doing their best. Pop Pop is still not great. This illustrated adult parody book is funny because it captures something real: the collision between earnest alternative wellness belief and the actual physical world that does not consult those beliefs before proceeding. Mom loves Pop Pop. Mom also loves crystals. The crystals love Mom's credit card. Pop Pop has not been consulted about the crystals' role in his care plan. The book is honest about all of this in a way that the healing crystal industry prefers not to be. This Book IS For: Anyone who has a family member whose medical decisions have been guided by a crystal or a chakra assessment or a vibe Adults navigating the specific situation of loving someone whose wellness philosophy has drifted from evidence-based medicine Fans of dark comedy that finds the humor in the gap between good intentions and operational reality Gift-givers who know exactly which family member in the recipient's life is the crystal person and this is about that This Book Is NOT For: People who believe in crystal healing deeply enough that this premise reads as mockery of their reality rather than their practice Anyone currently purchasing crystals as a meaningful component of a medical plan and finding the title threatening Readers who need all wellness approaches to be treated with equal validity regardless of the evidence base Pop Pop, who has enough on his plate and does not need this specific book on top of everything else Appropriate For: Gifts for anyone navigating the specific family dynamic where one person has crystal energy and another person has a prognosis White elephant exchanges at any gathering where at least one person has given crystal-adjacent gifts before Mother's Day, specifically, for the kind of mother who has a crystal collection and a family that loves her despite and because of it Anyone who has spent money on alternative wellness and would appreciate laughing about it from the outside angle Why Buy This The healing crystal market is worth over two billion dollars annually. That is a lot of crystals that are not saving Pop Pops. This book costs a fraction of one crystal and documents the situation with more accuracy than any crystal consultation has ever managed. For the cost of one small rose quartz that "promotes healing and positive energy," you can have an illustrated cartoon book that also promotes healing, specifically the emotional healing of laughing at something real and difficult. Mom means well. Mom's crystals are very nice. Pop Pop needs a different kind of help than the crystals provide. These three things can all be true simultaneously, and this book holds all three with the kind of dark humor that only makes sense if you've been in a situation where love and wishful thinking are the most present available resources. Buy it. Pop Pop would probably find it funnier than the crystals have been. https://bradgosse.com/products/moms-crystals-wont-save-your-pop-pop?variant=44886912303407 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0BW2KJNF5.png?v=1681494931&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798352186008 B0BW2KJNF5 543543 51301493440815 Mom's Egg Hunt: A Children's Book... That Definitely Isn't For Kids Brace yourselves—because “Mom’s Egg Hunt” is not your average Easter story. Oh no. This hilariously twisted, wink-wink-nudge-nudge picture book delivers a double entendre-soaked romp through pastel-colored suburban mayhem. Written and illustrated in a wholesome children's book style but absolutely dripping with adult humor, it's the perfect funny book for those who like their laughs a little bit crass, their humor a little bit off-color, and their jokes with a heaping spoonful of innuendo. Follow along as a precocious kid searches high and low for Mom’s elusive “egg hunt”—while clueless neighbors, suspicious teachers, and sweaty dads chime in with commentary that straddles the line between innocent and... well, something else entirely. From the priest at the parish to the mailman with suspiciously intimate knowledge, everyone’s got an opinion on Mom’s egg hunt—and no one’s saying exactly what they mean. This is a gag gift book that’s practically begging to be passed around at: White elephant gift exchanges (Prepare to be the talk of the office... or disinvited from next year’s party.)Birthday gifts for that friend with “questionable taste” (You know the one.)Christmas gifts for the impossible-to-shop-for weirdo in your life (Santa’s not judging.)Father’s Day or Mother’s Day gifts for parents who secretly love a dirty jokeBachelor or bachelorette parties that need a little extra awkward humorAdult Easter baskets (Because you’re never too old for chocolate... or dirty jokes.) “Mom’s Egg Hunt” is more than just a funny book—it’s an experience. It’s the kind of joke gift that doesn’t just get a polite chuckle; it’s the book that gets passed around the room while people say, “Oh my god, read this part!” It’s a humor book designed to make your friends laugh, cringe, and text you at 2am saying, “I can’t believe you gave me this.” With vibrant, kid-friendly illustrations that hilariously clash with its very grown-up subtext, “Mom’s Egg Hunt” looks right at home on any bookshelf... until someone actually opens it. This is the ultimate gag gift for anyone who appreciates double meanings, irreverent humor, and the awkward joy of a joke that goes just a little too far. Buy it for the friend who thinks they’ve seen it all. Buy it for the co-worker you’re pretty sure HR already has a file on. Or hell—buy it for yourself, because you deserve a laugh that makes you snort wine out of your nose. Warning: This book is for adults with a sense of humor and an appreciation for wildly inappropriate puns. Definitely not for children. Unless you really hate their parents. https://bradgosse.com/products/moms-egg-hunt-signed-copy?variant=51301493440815 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/3f5583d8754b9ef471b6e56a2b035b7a.png?v=1746534862&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0F7LK9J8T 543543 51251957661999 Mom’s Magic Gummies: Make Traffic More FunWelcome to a twisted little tale told in the sugary-sweet style of a bedtime book… if your bedtime story was ghostwritten by a half-sober stand-up comic who just finished parenting class and failed spectacularly. “Mom’s Magic Gummies: Make Traffic More Fun” is a hilarious, irreverent parody of those classic children's books—with the look and feel of a wholesome storybook, and the filthy grown-up humor of a barstool confessional. This delightfully inappropriate cartoon book tells the story of a world where adulting is a wild ride—complete with stoner grandpas, juice boxes laced with "spice," expired meat side-hustles, and moms who call edible binges “self-care.” It's a ride through questionable parenting choices, chaotic family moments, and scenes that toe the line between dysfunctional and disturbingly familiar. Inside these cheerful-looking pages, you’ll meet: A mom who hides her gummies better than she hides her trauma Kids who pray to Judge Judy instead of Jesus A grandma who stores gasoline like it’s kombucha A kid who knows exactly what a time-share scam looks like And a whole parking lot of degenerates at the dispensary “Mom’s Magic Gummies” is written in easy-to-read rhyme, making it perfect for adults who want to feel like they’re reading a bedtime story without the burden of actual parenting. It’s the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud, then question whether you’re doing okay. (Spoiler alert: you’re not—but at least you’re laughing.) This Funny Book Makes the Perfect Joke Gift for Grown-Ups Who: Enjoy dark, edgy humor that hides behind cheerful illustrations Love gag gifts and want to dominate the white elephant party Need a clever stoner gift or weed-themed birthday present Appreciate an offbeat adult humor book with some bite Are parents, former kids, or simply messed up in a fun way Give it as a Christmas gift for the family misfit, a birthday gift for your high-functioning burnout friend, or a joke gift for the mom who "needs a minute". Pair it with actual gummies (or don't, your call) and watch the laughter roll in. It’s colorful. It’s crass. It’s a car crash of parenting satire, and you’ll love every wrecked rhyme. Mom's Magic Gummies: Make Traffic More Fun is the adult humor book you didn’t know you needed—until you were three glasses in and hate-scrolling Amazon. It's not for kids. It’s barely for adults. But it’s perfect for you. https://bradgosse.com/products/moms-magic-gummies-make-traffic-more-fun-signed-copy?variant=51251957661999 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/dea9694f2334ee0ea2557af992c37b3a.png?v=1745238786&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0F5QF6LNF 543543 44460103467311 Mommy Got A DUI: A Kid's Guide To Getting Around On The Bus... Transportation Solutions For The Post-License Household Since Dad went away, Mommy has been trying. Her drinking problem, from the children, she hid... until the evening that produced the paperwork that produced this book. Now there is no license. There is, however, a bus system. This book covers the bus system. It covers routes and schedules and the general experience of getting from point A to point B via public transit in a household that has recently had a licensing situation. It is a practical guide. It is a guide that was written because a specific event happened. The event is not glossed over. The bus map is, however, provided. This illustrated adult parody book handles family dysfunction in the illustrated children's book format that has always been the most honest vehicle for it: cheerful artwork, age-appropriate-seeming narration, and an underlying situation that adults recognize immediately and that the format makes simultaneously more and less uncomfortable. Mommy got a DUI. The bus is reliable. The book documents the transition from one transportation model to the other with the specific grace of something that finds the comedy without losing the truth. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up in households where "making do" was the operating philosophy and humor was the survival mechanism Fans of dark comedy that uses the children's book format to say things adult formats find harder to say directly Anyone who has ever had to explain a complicated family situation to someone younger using the most careful available language Gift-givers who know someone who has ridden the bus as a direct consequence of a family member's choices This Book Is NOT For: People currently navigating a very recent and very personal version of this situation who are not yet at the bus-schedule humor stage MADD representatives who would prefer this subject be addressed in a strictly solemn register Readers who need all illustrated family stories to trend toward recovery, redemption, and restored driving privileges Anyone who has given someone a ride home from the courthouse recently and has not had enough distance yet Appropriate For: Gag gifts for the friend who has navigated this situation in their own family and has earned the right to laugh about it White elephant exchanges where the group is close enough that this lands as recognition rather than judgment Gifts for anyone who is processing their own family chaos and needs confirmation that others have processed theirs Anyone who has taken public transit as a direct result of someone else's evening decisions Why Buy This The bus is actually quite reliable in most metropolitan areas and this information is undersold. For roughly the cost of an Uber that Mommy can no longer order on her own account, you get a book that documents the full transportation situation with cartoon art and the cheerful pragmatism of someone who has made peace with the bus. The bus goes places. The bus keeps a schedule. The bus does not have a license to lose. These are advantages the book correctly identifies. Family situations are complicated. Some of them become DUI situations. DUI situations become bus situations. Bus situations become books that make the people who have been in them laugh in a specific way that releases something. That specific laugh is the whole point of this book. The bus route is a bonus. Mommy is doing her best. The bus is helping. The book documents it. https://bradgosse.com/products/mommy-got-a-dui-a-kids-guide-to-getting-around-on-the-bus-signed-copy?variant=44460103467311 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B084P2DY5S.png?v=1675972127&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798612419945 B084P2DY5S 543543 44460101271855 Mom's Only Fans: New Beginnings From Difficult Choices... An Entrepreneurial Pivot With Household Implications Mom and dad were fighting too much. Dad packed his bags and said she was a lot, which she is, and he left, which he did. And then mom looked at the digital economy and made a business decision. The subscription is modest. The content has been described by people who are not mom's children as "very mom energy," which in this context means something specific. Mom is making money now. Mom's phone is very busy. Mom has found her audience. The children are supportive in the way that children are supportive of a parent's new business when they do not fully understand what the business is. This illustrated adult parody book addresses the OnlyFans era with the cartoon cheerfulness of a children's entrepreneurship guide and the specific subject matter of an adult content platform, and holds those two things together long enough to make every page funny. Mom pivoted. Mom monetized. Mom's subscription base is growing. Dad didn't see the business acumen. The subscribers did. The book documents mom's new beginnings without judgment and with cartoon art, which is more than dad managed. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate the digital economy humor of OnlyFans as a cultural phenomenon with observable family dynamics Fans of dark comedy about domestic situations that finds the absurdist business angle in the personal chaos Anyone who has ever described someone's post-breakup pivot as "an interesting decision" in the diplomatic sense Gift-givers attending a divorce party or a bachelorette party where this book's specific energy is appropriate This Book Is NOT For: People who believe OnlyFans as a platform should be discussed only in serious contexts about labor and digital economics Anyone currently subscribed to someone's mom's OnlyFans and experiencing complicated feelings about this description Readers who need the post-divorce economic pivot to trend toward conventional reemployment narratives Moms who have made this pivot and do not find the illustrated children's book format an appropriate venue for acknowledgment Appropriate For: Divorce parties... this is the perfect divorce party book for the specific kind of divorce that involves an entrepreneurial follow-up Bachelorette parties for any party where the conversation has already gone in this direction multiple times White elephant exchanges among friends who are all familiar with the digital economy and its creative applications Gag gifts for the friend whose mom's phone is "always blowing up" and they've stopped asking why Why Buy This Divorce gifts are typically: wine, candles, a spa voucher, and a message that says "you deserve better." This book is a divorce gift that acknowledges the specific direction some people go when they realize they deserve better and also need income and also have a phone and also are living in 2024. It is the honest divorce gift. It is the one that says: I see the full picture of the post-split landscape and I found a book for it. Mom found her audience. The subscription is growing. New beginnings from difficult choices are still new beginnings, and this book treats mom's entrepreneurial decision with the respect due any small business owner who identified a market and entered it. Buy it for someone in your life who will immediately think of someone else. The notification light on mom's phone is not slowing down. The book explains why, with cartoons, for roughly what a monthly subscription costs. https://bradgosse.com/products/moms-only-fans-new-beginnings-from-difficult-choices-signed-copy?variant=44460101271855 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HTF1K4R.png?v=1675972095&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798685305039 B08HTF1K4R 543543 44460117066031 Mom's Tinder Profile And 22 Other Ways Adults Lie Every Day... A Transparency Report From The People Who Raised You Moms and dads lie without any shame. About going to the gym, which they are not doing. About cheating at board games, which they are doing. About the Tinder profile, which exists, and the photos on it, which are from five years ago, and the description, which contains optimism that should be considered legally actionable. This book catalogs twenty-three documented adult lies alongside the context that makes each of them understandable, defensible, and nonetheless a lie. The Tinder profile is exhibit one. The gym is exhibit two. There are twenty-one more. They are all illustrated in cartoon form. The children are learning. This adult parody book addresses the fundamental dishonesty of adult life with the illustrated cheerfulness of a children's guide to the world, which is the format that best captures the gap between what children are told and what is actually happening. Adults lie. The lies are specific. The specific lies are documented here. If you are an adult reading this description, you have told at least three of these lies. This is the book about you. It is illustrated. It is available at a price that makes purchasing it easily defensible. This Book IS For: Adults who have told at least one lie from this book's catalog and would like it documented so they can process it externally Anyone who grew up watching adults be confusing and has since become a confusing adult and found the pattern Fans of humor that is funny because it is accurate and not because it exaggerates anything that needs exaggerating Gift-givers who want to hand someone a book and watch them recognize themselves, their partner, or their parents in it This Book Is NOT For: Adults who do not lie and would like that acknowledged, though those adults are also technically lying about not lying People whose Tinder profile contains only recent photos and an honest description, who will find this relevant to others Readers who need their adult role models to be presented as models rather than as people doing their best and fibbing Anyone who found the gym claim personally targeting and knows why Appropriate For: Gifts for new parents who are about to start lying extensively and could benefit from a preview of their upcoming catalog White elephant exchanges where a majority of attendees have been on a dating app and selected their best possible photos Bachelorette parties for the friend who has the Tinder profile and the gym membership and the relationship with both that we all know about Gag gifts for anyone who has recently updated their dating profile and described the update as "authentic" Why Buy This There are twenty-three lies documented in this book. You have told some of them. The person you're giving this to has told some of them. The person who wrote this book has told some of them. This is not a character assessment. This is a documentation project. The lies are understandable. The cartoon illustrations are charming. The fact that everyone in the room will recognize at least half of these as current practices is the joke, and it is a good enough joke to sustain twenty-three chapters. Mom's Tinder profile exists. The gym membership is aspirational. The board game cheating is ongoing. This book costs less than the gym membership that goes unused and produces more genuine engagement per dollar than any fitness app currently on the market. Twenty-three lies, all illustrated, all recognizable, all available at a price that is itself a good deal rather than a lie about a good deal. That's transparency. https://bradgosse.com/products/moms-tinder-profile-and-22-other-ways-adults-lie-every-day-signed-copy?variant=44460117066031 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08LNBV9LN.png?v=1675972332&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798550997123 B08LNBV9LN 543543 44460117950767 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/murder-hornets-signed-copy?variant=44460117950767 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HGRZM9P.png?v=1675972357&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B08HGRZM9P 543543 44460100288815 My Big Black Hawk... The Bird That Has Become A Local Attraction Whether Anyone Asked Or Not All the girls love the Big Black Hawk. When they come to ride, he makes them squeal. He is large. He is magnificent. He is, according to this book, a hawk... a bird, specifically... and the enthusiasm he generates in the people who come to see him and ride him is documented here in illustrated cartoon form with the breathless admiration of a nature documentary about a very exceptional bird. The hawk is big. The hawk is black. The hawk is something everyone in the neighborhood wants to experience. These are the facts. The book reports them. This adult parody book operates with the complete commitment to its stated subject matter that has made the genre work since someone first looked at a word, saw a second meaning inside it, and decided to write a book about only the first meaning while making the second meaning inescapable. The hawk is the subject. The hawk is large. People want to ride the hawk. The hawk delivers an experience people describe enthusiastically. This is all bird content. This is entirely bird content. Welcome to bird content. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate a double meaning that has been given the full illustrated treatment it deserves Bird enthusiasts who also have a sense of humor about the specific vocabulary of bird appreciation Anyone who has ever described something as "big" and "black" in a professional context and had to manage the follow-up Gift-givers who want to hand someone bird content that is definitively bird content and watch comprehension arrive This Book Is NOT For: Actual ornithologists who feel hawks deserve to be celebrated in contexts free of double meaning People who will read this description and claim they don't understand what's happening, which is possible but statistically unlikely Anyone whose appreciation for large black hawks is purely professional and this venue feels inappropriate Readers who need their bird books to be entirely about birds in every available sense of the word Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties... the Big Black Hawk is bachelorette party content and has been since the title was chosen White elephant exchanges where handing someone a bird book generates the exact reaction you were going for Gag gifts for anyone in your life who has used the phrase "big black hawk" in any non-ornithological context Any occasion where you want to give a book that is entirely about a bird and somehow about nothing like a bird at all Why Buy This The Big Black Hawk is a remarkable animal. Its size is notable. Its appeal is widespread. The people who come to interact with it leave enthusiastic. These are the facts of a very impressive bird, and they are all true about a bird, and the book documents them about a bird, and if you are thinking about anything other than a bird right now that is entirely your own business and the book takes no responsibility for your interpretation of bird content. Buy it. Give it to someone who likes birds or who will appreciate the specific kind of bird content this book provides. Either way, someone in the transaction ends up with a book about a hawk that is large and celebrated and has a devoted local following. The hawk is waiting. The book is ready. The ride has been described as exceptional. That's the bird situation. 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I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/my-homophobic-dad-says-god-hates-same-sex-couples-signed-copy?variant=44460108775727 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08ZBJFQ4Q.png?v=1675972199&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798725047417 B08ZBJFQ4Q 543543 44460100419887 My Racist Dog Only Trusts Whites... A Veterinary Problem That Is Also A Dinner Party Problem Doctor, please help. My little dog Jack only likes whites, and that is a fact that has created a range of social complications that no trainer has successfully addressed. Jack is not being aggressive. Jack is being specific. The specificity has been documented, tested, and confirmed across enough social situations to constitute a pattern that can no longer be attributed to coincidence. Jack has preferences. Jack's preferences have preferences. This book documents Jack's behavior with illustrated cartoon art and the exhausted sincerity of a pet owner who has tried everything and the dog is still making things weird. This adult parody book uses a dog with racial bias as a vehicle for the specific comedy of things that are both ridiculous and recognizable... the specific discomfort of a family pet whose personality creates situations that require explanation. The book is satire. The dog is a cartoon. The situations are familiar in the way that all genuinely awkward social situations are familiar once you've been in them. Jack means well, probably. Jack's track record suggests otherwise. This Book IS For: Pet owners who have had to apologize for their dog's behavior in ways that required more explanation than dog behavior normally requires Fans of comedy that uses animal characters to make social observations that land differently through the animal filter Anyone who has navigated the "my dog just does this" conversation with insufficient success Gift-givers who want to give a dog book that is about a very specific kind of dog problem This Book Is NOT For: People who feel that using a pet as a vehicle for racial commentary trivializes the commentary Dog trainers who believe all behavioral issues can be addressed with patience and positive reinforcement and have not met Jack Readers who need their dog characters to be unambiguously good boys who are working on themselves Anyone planning to show this to their actual dog to see if it helps, which it will not Appropriate For: Gag gifts for dog owners whose dogs have expressed strong opinions about specific guests in ways that required explanation White elephant exchanges where the room is diverse enough and close enough that this lands as the satire it's designed to be Anyone who has ever owned a pet that seemed to have preferences they didn't choose to have Occasions where you want a book that uses a dog to say something that requires the dog filter to be said at all Why Buy This Dogs are our best friends. They are also, occasionally, our most honest and least socially calibrated companions. Jack does not know that his preferences are creating a problem. Jack just has the preferences and expresses them without the social awareness that would soften the impact. In this sense, Jack is more honest than most humans, which is either charming or a problem depending on who's at the dinner party. The vet cannot help with this particular issue. The trainer has tried. The social situation continues to develop. For the cost of one training session that will not address the core issue, you get a book that documents the situation with illustrated accuracy and finds the comedy inside the frustration. Jack trusts whites. The book is honest about that. The dinner party was awkward. The book is honest about that too. https://bradgosse.com/products/my-racist-dog-only-trusts-whites-signed-copy?variant=44460100419887 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0BFVRLXNC.png?v=1675972079&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798353815075 B0BFVRLXNC 543543 44460101861679 My Racist Gran: Says We Still Can't Trust The Japs... Holiday Visits With Maximum Institutional Memory The holidays are when we go to grandma's house right through the snow. We love grandma. Grandma's opinions were formed during a specific historical period and have not been updated since, which means holiday visits contain a range of assessments about various groups that were considered normal at their formation and are now considered considerably otherwise. Gran is not mean. Gran is thorough. Gran has opinions that are historically sourced and that she shares freely with the confidence of someone who has never been in a room where the opinions were challenged by the people they concerned. This illustrated adult parody book is dark humor about the specific and universal experience of the family elder whose worldview contains information that the rest of the family spends holiday visits diplomatically navigating. Gran loves you. Gran's love contains a side of historical assessments that you did not order and cannot send back. The book documents the holiday experience without flinching at Gran's views or endorsing them, which is exactly the approach that family reunions take and rarely make explicit. This Book IS For: Adults who have sat across a holiday table from a gran-equivalent and done the look-at-the-tablecloth thing Fans of dark humor that is honest about family dynamics including the specific ones that nobody in the family addresses directly Anyone who has had to quietly apologize to a guest for something said by a family member with seniority Gift-givers who want to give something that every family recognizes from their own version of the holiday experience This Book Is NOT For: People who believe the gran type's views should be documented without any comedic framing regardless of the satirical intent Readers who need all elderly characters to be portrayed as wise and their observations treated with deference Anyone who is the gran in their family and doesn't find the situation funny yet Family reunions where this book would not function as satire but as documentation of someone present Appropriate For: Holiday gifts for the family member who has been navigating gran's opinions the longest and deserves acknowledgment White elephant exchanges among adults who have all done the holiday table look-at-your-plate move Gag gifts for the friend who has described their family's holiday visit as "a lot" in a very specific way Anyone who finds the dark humor of recognizable family dysfunction more useful than pretending it doesn't exist Why Buy This Gran is not going to change. Gran's opinions were locked in sometime before anyone at the holiday table was old enough to vote, and they have remained consistent since. The family has developed strategies. The strategies involve looking at tablecloths and changing the subject and apologizing to guests during coat retrieval. This book acknowledges those strategies, the situation that produced them, and finds the dark humor in the recognition that almost every family has some version of this dynamic and almost none of them discuss it directly. Buy it for someone who nods when you say "gran energy" without needing a definition. Buy it for someone who is far enough from the holidays to find the specific experience funny now. Buy it as a family artifact that says: we have been navigating this for years and we might as well laugh. Gran loves you. Gran's views are complicated. The holiday visits continue regardless. The book documents what usually gets edited out of the family newsletter. https://bradgosse.com/products/my-racist-gran-says-we-still-cant-trust-the-japs-signed-copy?variant=44460101861679 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/1659056020.png?v=1675972108&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9781659056020 1659056020 543543 52091431846191 Nanny Punani The Children’s Book That Absolutely Isn’t For Children Nanny Punani is the beautifully illustrated, rhyme-filled “kids’ book” that no responsible adult should ever read to an actual child, unless you’re trying to get banned from the PTA permanently. Styled like a wholesome bedtime story but packed with enough wink-wink innuendo to make your inner twelve-year-old choke on laughter, this parody delivers exactly what adulthood promised but rarely provides: five glorious minutes of unapologetically stupid joy. Inside, a cheerful kid narrates the many innocent-looking but wildly questionable happenings surrounding beloved Nanny Punani. Her comfy lap, her pink kitty, the friendly delivery men, the doctor making late-night house calls... Every page looks like it belongs in a kindergarten library, yet reads like something HR uses as a training example labeled “absolutely not.” This book does not claim to be inspiring. It will not help you grow, heal, or become a better human. What it will do is make you snort laugh, question your moral compass, and immediately show it to someone else so you don’t have to be alone with what you just read. You’re not buying literature. You’re buying the experience of laughing at something you probably shouldn’t. WHO SHOULD RECEIVE THIS RIDICULOUS MASTERPIECE? Your friend who laughs at jokes that should never see daylight. White Elephant and Secret Santa exchanges where everyone already gave up pretending to be classy. Bachelorette parties, bachelor parties, and “congrats on the divorce” celebrations. New parents who desperately need a break from books about farm animals and feelings. That one coworker who is somehow both wholesome and deeply unhinged. Your bathroom, coffee table, guest room, or anywhere unsuspecting adults can find it and spiral. A FAR BETTER GIFT THAN AN OVERPRICED CARD (AND ACTUALLY FUNNY) Let’s be honest: greeting cards have become tiny paper scams. You pay seven bucks for 12 seconds of reading and a punchline so weak it should come with an apology. Nanny Punani, on the other hand, delivers an entire story packed with bright illustrations, cheeky rhymes, and enough “did they really just say that?” moments to keep your recipient laughing long after the card would’ve hit the trash. For the same price as a flimsy folded rectangle, you get a full-color, full-laugh experience that people actually keep, and proudly display, usually right next to something their mother-in-law disapproves of. And the story? It’s a gloriously twisted parody told through the eyes of a sweet, oblivious kid who has absolutely no idea how questionable Nanny Punani’s daily life actually is. From the milkman who keeps her jugs full, to the plumber who’s always elbows-deep in her pipes, to the garden that mysteriously blossoms under all that “special attention”, each page adds another layer of innocent narration wrapped around wildly suggestive illustrations. It’s the kind of book where every turn of the page gets a bigger laugh… and a bigger “oh no.” That’s what makes it such a perfect gift: it’s unexpected, it’s memorable, and it’s the exact sort of thing people whip out at parties to prove someone really bought them *that.* Birthdays, holidays, office gift swaps, breakups, makeups, Tuesdays, you name it, this book handles it better than a generic card with glitter that sheds like a feral raccoon. If you want a gift that actually makes people laugh, like real, undignified, wheezy laughter, Nanny Punani is hands-down a better choice than anything in the greeting card aisle pretending to be funny. Nanny Punani won’t change your life. But it will make it slightly more bearable, and significantly more hilarious, for a few minutes. And honestly? That’s worth its weight in inappropriate rhymes. https://bradgosse.com/products/nanny-punani-signed-copy?variant=52091431846191 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/31a758fa398369631448dfb74bed760d.png?v=1765028769&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0G5G5D2ZP 543543 51906653290799 Get Your Autographed Copy of "No Nut November: Survival Guide"You know those uplifting self-help books with sunsets and soft advice? Yeah, this isn’t that. No Nut November: Survival Guide is a foul-mouthed pep talk in a children’s-book costume... a parody that drags your overexcited inner gremlin through thirty days of restraint, ridicule, and ridiculous laughter. It will not fix your life. It will, however, make you laugh hard enough to forget what you were about to do with your browser.A Foul-Mouthed Pep Talk for the NNN ChallengeEach day hands you a warped mix of trashy family “legends,” grimy visualizations you can’t unsee, and simple exercises to keep your hands where everyone can see them. The vibe is equal parts coach, heckler, and disappointed guidance counselor. You’ll get meditations that feel like threats, affirmations with side-eye, and workbook moments that force you to admit you’re not a monk... you’re a raccoon who found the snack drawer. It’s a crude, honest, and painfully relatable 30-day challenge book. You’re buying a month of laughs, not enlightenment.What’s Inside This Hilarious Survival Guide?You get thirty unhinged daily chapters with cartoon-level silliness, “de-boner” facts delivered with a smirk, quick breathing tricks, gratitude lists that have nothing to do with anatomy, and savage little pep talks to outsmart your own impulses. By Day 30, your sense of humor will be sharper, your willpower slightly less flimsy, and your dignity… well, let’s not oversell it. The real prize is that you survived a month with your sanity (and search history) mostly intact.Why This Book Actually Works (Begrudgingly)It reframes the whole NNN challenge as a comedy roast you’re in on. Laughing at your urges takes their power down a notch. When you can name the villain... the Goblin, the Cyclops, the Wrinkled Worm (we said crass, not classy)... you can also tell it to take a hike. Think of it as exposure therapy for temptation, served with cartoons and cackling.The Perfect Gag Gift for Men (Who Need a Laugh)This book is the ultimate gift for anyone you love but also judge a little. Ideal for:Funny White Elephant & Secret Santa Gifts: Guaranteed to be the most talked-about present.Bachelor & Birthday Parties: For the friend who claims “discipline is my middle name” while eating chips at 2 a.m.Roommates & Coworkers: A desk decoration that screams “I’m working on myself” and “please don’t borrow my lotion.”Gym Bros, Gamers, and Chronic Scrollers: Converts doomscrolling into giggles and grim determination.Partners with a Sense of Humor: Gift it with a wink and a box of tissues… for tears of laughter, obviously.What This Book Is NOTThis is not medical advice, a moral lecture, or a miracle cure. It’s a month-long comedy boot camp that bullies your impulses, then buys you a participation trophy that reads, “I didn’t.” The art is cute, the language is spicy, and the goal is simple: reduce cringe, increase cackle, and finish November without a dramatic monologue about willpower.If you appreciate humor that’s shameless, cynical, and a little grimy... and you’re mature enough to laugh at yourself... this ridiculous manual will carry you across the finish line one snort-laugh at a time. https://bradgosse.com/products/no-nut-november-signed-copy?variant=51906653290799 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/f3d607320c9217dcd95b2df98be71755.png?v=1759846127&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 24.00 USD B0FV38CWSR 543543 44460110512431 OK Boomer: It's Not About Age. It's About Attitude... A Clarification For People Who Are Going To Need It Boomer always complains at the store. "But it was on sale yesterday!" When yesterday's sale is no longer active and Boomer is the last person to discover this, the manager is involved, and the manager's day has taken a turn. This book catalogues the full Boomer experience: the complaints, the certainty, the specific relationship with customer service that transforms every transaction into an opportunity for a perspective that the transaction did not request. This is not about age. The book is clear about this. It is about a worldview that has calcified in a specific direction, and the worldview is well-documented here. This adult parody book is cultural satire delivered through illustrated cartoon art, and the target is not a generation but an attitude: the attitude of absolute certainty in one's own perspective combined with a comprehensive inability to absorb information that challenges that perspective. The attitude is widespread. The attitude is recognizable. The attitude has been named. The book is named after the name. It's not about age. Ask Boomer. Boomer will tell you at length. Boomer has opinions about the book's premise that the book anticipated and documented in advance. This Book IS For: Anyone who has worked retail, customer service, or any public-facing role and has developed strong opinions about certain attitudes Adults who have used the phrase "OK Boomer" in a situation they immediately understood was correct even before they finished saying it Fans of cultural satire that identifies a real behavioral pattern and renders it in cartoon form with complete accuracy Gift-givers who want to make a specific cultural observation to someone who will receive it with recognition This Book Is NOT For: People who have received the phrase "OK Boomer" directed at them and are still processing the attribution Anyone who believes this is about age and will be telling you so at length in the comments section Readers who find generational humor divisive and would prefer we focus on what connects us, which is a Boomer thing to say Boomer, who will not find this funny and whose opinion on the matter has already been noted with the energy the phrase suggests Appropriate For: Gag gifts for service industry workers who have earned this recognition through direct and ongoing experience White elephant exchanges at events where there is a Boomer in the room and everyone knows which person that is Gifts for the friend who sent you the "OK Boomer" meme first and deserves the physical artifact version Any occasion where a cultural observation is warranted and the direct approach would create a scene that doesn't need creating Why Buy This The generational discourse has produced a lot of content that is either earnest analysis or defensive response. This book is neither. It is illustrated documentation of a behavioral pattern that has a name, and the name is fine, and the pattern is real, and the cartoon art makes it visible without a dissertation about economic conditions and housing markets. The joke is the attitude. The attitude is right there. In the store. Asking for yesterday's price. OK Boomer. It's not about age. The book said so. Buy it. Give it to someone in retail. Give it to someone with a Boomer in their orbit. Give it to someone who needs to see their read confirmed. The manager has been called. The situation is documented. The sale ended yesterday. https://bradgosse.com/products/ok-boomer-its-not-about-age-its-about-attitude-signed-copy?variant=44460110512431 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B084QGRJ9J.png?v=1675972221&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798613655021 B084QGRJ9J 543543 44460113854767 Ours Baby: The Only Child Your Stepmom Loves... A Blended Family Accounting With Some Numbers Missing Your new stepmom seems nice. She makes your dad happy. But she wants more from the situation, specifically a baby that is hers and dad's rather than just dad's from the previous arrangement, and once that baby arrives the household dynamics shift in the direction that the title suggests and this book documents without softening. Ours Baby is the only child the stepmom loves. The other children are present. The other children have assessed the situation. The book is their accounting of it, illustrated in cartoon form, with the specific accuracy of children who notice everything and have been told they're imagining things. This illustrated adult parody book addresses the blended family experience with the honesty that most family content about blended families diplomatically avoids. Not all stepparents are evil. Not all Ours Babies create imbalance. This particular scenario, however, has created a specific kind of imbalance that the non-Ours children have accurately identified, and the book validates their identification with cartoon art and the resigned humor of a situation that is real and funny and sad and mostly just real. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up in a blended family and recognized the Ours Baby phenomenon with uncomfortable accuracy Fans of dark humor that takes a recognizable domestic situation and documents it without the therapeutic framework Anyone who has been told "you're imagining things" about something they were definitely not imagining Gift-givers who know someone in or from a blended family situation where the Ours Baby dynamic has been a topic This Book Is NOT For: Stepparents who are currently doing an excellent job of loving all children equally and feel this premise is unfair to their experience Anyone in a blended family that functions without this particular dynamic who feels represented anyway and is upset about it Readers who need illustrated family content to end with equal love confirmed and distributed fairly across all parties The Ours Baby themselves, who are innocent in this and whose future therapy is already accounted for Appropriate For: Gag gifts for adults who grew up in blended families and have the specific sense of humor that produces White elephant exchanges among people who will immediately think of a family member this applies to Gifts for the therapist in your life who sees this dynamic regularly and needs something for the break room shelf Anyone who has described their childhood home as "complicated" and wants a book that captures one of the complications Why Buy This Most books about blended families are either therapeutic guides for parents or storybooks that illustrate how wonderful the blended situation can be. This book is neither. It is documentation of a specific experience that a significant percentage of the population has had and that is underrepresented in illustrated form. The Ours Baby is real. The dynamic is real. The cartoon art makes it funny in the distance-from-childhood way that is the only way it can be funny. That distance is the whole gift. The stepmom is not a villain in her own story. That's the most accurate thing about her. Buy this for someone who grew up with an Ours Baby and can now laugh about it. Buy it for someone who is about to become a stepmom and needs this as a cautionary reference. The baby is theirs. The dynamic is documented. The other children noticed. They always notice. Now there's a book about it. https://bradgosse.com/products/ours-baby-the-only-child-your-stepmom-loves-signed-copy?variant=44460113854767 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08JLXYJL8.png?v=1675972287&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798689222844 B08JLXYJL8 543543 44460113232175 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/pedoclown-cant-catch-a-break-signed-copy?variant=44460113232175 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0851LL2MZ.png?v=1675972270&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798616939135 B0851LL2MZ 543543 51625550184751 Peggy Peggington Loves to Peg Let’s get one thing straight: this is a non-children's book… for very disturbed adults. Peggy Peggington Loves to Peg is the laugh-out-loud, highly inappropriate, double-entendre-filled picture book you didn’t know your morally bankrupt bookshelf needed. It's got rhymes. It's got cartoons. It's got a woman named Peggy and, well… she pegs. A lot. She pegs everything from squirrels and clowns to priests and puppets, all with the cheerful energy of a preschool teacher on her third mimosa. What begins as a tale of whimsical hobbyism quickly unravels into an absurd, unhinged celebration of obsession, dominance, and deeply questionable decision-making, all masked in delightful rhyme and illustrated like a Saturday morning cartoon fever dream. Is it clever? Maybe. Is it subtle? Not even remotely. But it is hilarious… assuming your sense of humor permanently stalled out somewhere between the fourth grade and your third failed relationship. Here’s what you’ll find inside this deranged delight: A full-color illustrated storybook parody that looks like it belongs in a kindergarten class… until it doesn’t. Wholesome childhood imagery crashing headfirst into full-blown adult degeneracy. Enough double meanings to make a Boy Scout leader sweat and a Freudian blush. A strong female protagonist who just wants to peg in peace, but also in public, in private, and probably in your nightmares. Who’s this book for? Peggy Peggington Loves to Peg makes the perfect gift for: Your weirdest friend (you know the one) The coworker who lives for HR violations Your cousin who never quite outgrew “That’s what she said” jokes A bachelor or bachelorette party that needs one final push off the moral cliff Your therapist (as a cry for help or a power move) Yourself, because you have excellent taste in comedy and zero shame This is not a book for kids. Not unless you want to be in a very awkward meeting with Child Protective Services. But for adults who love twisted humor, awkward rhymes, and giggling at things you definitely shouldn’t be giggling at, this book delivers. So if you’ve ever wanted a storybook that combines the tone of a sweet little tale with the content of an unfiltered group chat at 2 a.m., look no further. Peggy’s got her toolkit. She’s got her rope. And she’s ready to peg your soul into the void, with love. “The safe word is ouch, but please go ahead.” Buy it. Gift it. Read it in the bathroom so your family doesn’t judge you. We know it’ll make you laugh, cringe, and question everything you thought you knew about tent pegs. https://bradgosse.com/products/peggy-peggington-loves-to-peg-signed-copy?variant=51625550184751 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/d3739ab0a6272893eddc6f28fc643fa0.png?v=1752498847&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0FHG1DD4L 543543 44460114280751 Pets In Trouble: What Did They Do Wrong?... A Disciplinary Record Across Multiple Species Mittens peed in mom's laptop case. Benny rubbed dead raccoon all over his face and came inside afterward as if this was acceptable. The pets in this book have made choices. The choices have been documented. The documentation does not include the pets' side of the story because the pets are not available for comment in a format that would clarify their reasoning, and the reasoning, based on the behaviors documented, would not be sufficient to explain what happened with the laptop case. This is a disciplinary record in illustrated form. The pets are the defendants. The evidence is submitted without argument from the defense. This adult parody book about pet misbehavior is funny because everyone who has a pet has a specific version of at least one story in this book, and the version they have is worse than they've described it to anyone. The raccoon situation is not the most alarming item in this catalog. The laptop case is not the worst location Mittens could have chosen. The book knows this and documents accordingly, with cartoon art and the resigned humor of a household where the pets have decided that the rules are guidelines. This Book IS For: Pet owners who have a story they tell at parties that begins with "you won't believe what the dog did" and ends with silence Anyone who has had to explain to a houseguest what that smell is and what the pet did to produce it Fans of animal comedy that is grounded in the specific, real misbehaviors that no training video covers because they shouldn't happen Gift-givers who want to give something to any pet owner that will produce immediate and comprehensive recognition This Book Is NOT For: Pet trainers who believe this documentation normalizes poor behavior rather than satirizing it People who believe their pet does not and cannot do these things, which is what everyone believes before it happens Readers who need their pet characters to be well-behaved enough to remain role models throughout the narrative Anyone who currently cannot locate their pet and is reading this with a growing sense of concern Appropriate For: Gifts for literally any pet owner... this works for dog owners, cat owners, the whole spectrum of domestic animal situations White elephant exchanges where the category is "anyone who has ever owned anything with fur" Gag gifts for the friend who most recently told you a pet story that started with "I can't believe" and ended with structural damage Housewarming gifts for new pet owners who do not yet know what's coming but will find this funnier in six months Why Buy This The pet gift market is enormous. There are calendars, accessories, branded items, all of it. This book costs less than most of those items and is more honest about the actual lived pet ownership experience than any of them. The pets are in trouble. The trouble is documented. The reason for the trouble remains, as of press time, unclear... because the pets cannot explain and would not explain even if they could, which is part of what makes them pets and part of what makes this funny. Mittens peed in the laptop case. Benny had the raccoon situation. There are more incidents where those came from, and they are all in this book, and every person who has ever had a pet will recognize at least one of them as something that happened to them or will happen to them or has happened in a neighbor's home that they heard about. Buy it. Give it to a pet owner. Watch them read it and say "mine did something similar once" and then explain what it was. The book is the prompt. The story is already there. https://bradgosse.com/products/pets-in-trouble-what-did-they-do-wrong-signed-copy?variant=44460114280751 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08MRW6P9Z.png?v=1675972300&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798558464542 B08MRW6P9Z 543543 50915319611695 (a.k.a. Paula Sh*t Everywhere) If you thought this book was about tidying up or the joys of obsessive cleanliness, congratulations, you’ve been duped. "Polish It Everywhere" is the filthy double entendre you didn’t know you needed in your life. On the surface, it’s a whimsical rhyme about the act of polishing, but just beneath that thin veneer of innocence lies a not-so-subtle nod to a certain someone making a mess… everywhere. Whether you’re in on the joke or blissfully ignorant, this book is a glorious disaster waiting to happen. From sinks to schools, gyms to zoos, and even a suspicious encounter with Tim, this rhyming catastrophe drags you through a wild ride of inappropriate hilarity. Is it about cleaning? Is it about Paula and her bad life choices? That’s for you to decide—or explain when giving it as a gift. What’s Inside: A Polished Sense of Humor: Innocent on the surface, filthy in context. Lines like “Polish it in the park, polish it after dark,” will make you question everything about Paula and her life priorities. Rhyme-Fueled Madness: With verses like “Polish it in a tent, polish it now it’s bent,” this book perfectly walks the line between chaos and cringe. Endless Double Meanings: Every page has you asking, “Are we talking about cleaning, or… something else?” (Spoiler: It’s definitely something else.) Who Needs This Book? The friend who laughs at bathroom humor way more than they should. Someone named Paula, because why not make this awkward for them? The Secret Santa recipient you’d like to never speak to again. People who thrive on gag gifts that will confuse, offend, or both. Use Cases: White Elephant Carnage: This book will have your coworkers wondering if you’re a comedic genius or just deeply disturbed. Perfect Prank Gift: Hand it to someone with zero context and let the awkward silence speak volumes. Bathroom Humor Decor: Leave it in your guest bathroom for peak comedy or absolute horror. Paula’s Greatest Hits: Got a friend named Paula? Make their day (or ruin it) with this very personalized gag. "Polish It Everywhere" isn’t just a book—it’s a conversation you’re not ready to have, wrapped in rhymes you can’t un-hear. Whether it’s a hilarious gag gift or a subtle jab at someone’s messy tendencies, this train wreck of double entendres is perfect for your dark humor collection. Add it to your cart now, because life’s too short to take seriously—and so is Paula. https://bradgosse.com/products/polish-it-everywhere-signed-copy?variant=50915319611695 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/7d140a13f33da1ac4c08a541ccff5bae.png?v=1737148860&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0DT62KHB7 543543 51855638462767 Confuse the hell out of your family this Christmas.We will send them a warm and boring holiday update from Harry and Sharyn Cox. It is complete with a heartfelt note about their dog Tiny, book clubs, baking, and quiet weekends at home. Perfectly dull. Perfectly believable. And absolutely nobody will have a clue who the Cox family is.They will read it once, laugh nervously, then spend the rest of December asking each other if anyone knows Harry or Sharyn. Spoiler: they do not.All you do is enter the name and address. We print it, stuff it, and mail it out at the start of December so it shows up right on time.This prank card is subtle, polite, and guaranteed to spark confusion, suspicion, and awkward family debates.Merry Christmas from Harry and Sharyn Cox. Tiny says hi.I will send the following Christmas Card to your family. Watch them run around the house confused asking if anybody knows Harry Cox or Sharyn Cox.Merry Christmas from the Cox family!Harry has kept busy with projects around the house, while Sharyn has been enjoying her book club and trying new baking recipes. Our little dog Tiny still thinks he runs the place, and he certainly makes sure we get our walks in. We didn’t travel much this year, but we enjoyed some quiet weekends close to home.We’re grateful for the simple things and wish you a wonderful holiday filled with comfort and cheer.– Harry and Sharyn Cox https://bradgosse.com/products/prank-card-from-harry-cox-and-sharyn-cox?variant=51855638462767 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/cox-card-front_dd71505f-9bc0-4851-9638-fddd928771c5.png?v=1757690361&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 8.00 USD 543543 51855609266479 Send holiday chaos straight to their mailbox.With this prank card, we will mail your friends or family a cheerful Christmas update from Mike and York Hunt. It comes complete with a wholesome family letter no one remembers writing or receiving. Picture them reading about Mike’s garage projects, York’s gardening obsession, and “the boys” who don’t exist.They will spend December scratching their heads, interrogating each other, and asking out loud: Who the hell are the Hunts?You just provide the name and address. We handle the rest: printing, stuffing, and mailing this perfectly boring, painfully believable Christmas card right on schedule at the start of December.It is the ultimate low-effort, high-confusion holiday gag. Subtle. Polite. And guaranteed to make your relatives question reality.Season’s Greetings from Mike and York Hunt. Let the awkward family arguments begin.I will send the following Christmas Card to your family. Watch them run around the house confused asking if anybody knows Mike Hunt or York hunt.Season’s Greetings from the Hunts!This year has been about the little things. Mike is still keeping busy with work, and York has been spending more time in the garden than ever. We took a short trip up north in the summer and enjoyed some quiet days by the lake. The boys are both doing well, staying out of trouble (mostly), and keeping us on our toes.We’re grateful for family, friends, and another year of health. Wishing you all a calm and cozy holiday season.– Mike and York Hunt https://bradgosse.com/products/prank-card-from-mike-hunt-and-york-hunt?variant=51855609266479 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/mike-hunt-card-front.png?v=1757688108&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 8.00 USD 543543 51855654650159 Send a little holiday confusion straight to their doorstep.We will mail your friends or family a cheerful Christmas update from Mike and York Lit. The card is filled with dull but believable details about garage projects, new recipes, and their loyal dog Lick. To top it off, it casually mentions weekends spent keeping houseplants alive.Your relatives will stare at it, pass it around, and start whispering: Who the hell are the Lits?All you do is provide the name and address. We handle the rest, making sure the card lands in their mailbox at the beginning of December.This prank is low effort, high payoff, and guaranteed to leave everyone scratching their heads.Happy Holidays from Mike and York Lit. Lick sends his love.I will send the following Christmas Card to your family. Watch them run around the house confused asking if anybody knows Mike Lit or York Lit.Happy Holidays from the Lits!It’s been another quiet year for us. Mike has been tinkering in the garage, York has been trying out new recipes, and our dog Lick still runs the household. We took a few walks, watched too much TV, and spent most of our weekends trying to keep the houseplants alive.Nothing too exciting to report, but we’re thankful for the calm and for each other. Wishing you peace and warmth this holiday season.– Mike and York Lit https://bradgosse.com/products/prank-card-from-mike-lit-and-york-lit?variant=51855654650159 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/lit-card-front.png?v=1757691749&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 8.00 USD 543543 44460106088751 Race Wars... The Cars Have Smiles. The Stakes Are High. Nothing About This Is What The Title Suggests. Today is the day of the very big race. All of the cars have a smile on their face. The race is on. The cars are competing. The race is, specifically, a car race: vehicles on a track, competing for position, with the stakes of automotive competition at the highest level this particular illustrated scenario has to offer. This book is about those cars. It is about that race. The title is about a race between cars. The title describes what is happening in every single panel of this book. Nothing else is happening. This is a car race. The cars are smiling. The race is the war. The war is between cars. This adult parody book operates on a bait-and-switch premise in which the title sets an expectation and the content completely redirects that expectation toward automotive competition, and the humor is in the gap between the two things and the reader's experience of that gap being bridged by a cartoon car with a smile. The cars are racing. The race is the whole book. The title has been selected with awareness of all of this. Welcome to the race. May the fastest car win. This Book IS For: Anyone who opened a book called Race Wars and found themselves at a cartoon car race and experienced that as either relief or disappointment Fans of bait-and-switch humor that commits completely to the redirect and never acknowledges the setup People who appreciate that certain titles produce a reaction and the book then does something entirely different with the reaction Gift-givers who want to hand someone something with a title that requires a moment and then provide the moment This Book Is NOT For: People who wanted what the title sounds like it describes and will feel specifically disappointed by the car race Anyone who bought a book about a car race looking for cartoon car content and then googled the title to understand what happened Readers who require their titles to be completely straightforward descriptions of the content without any additional layer Race car drivers who find that the title creates promotional challenges they didn't sign up for Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where reading the title aloud produces a reaction and then opening it produces a different one Gag gifts for the friend who has strong opinions about a lot of things and will process this book in multiple ways Anyone who enjoys the specific comedy of expectations being set and then redirected with complete commitment Racing fans who also have a sense of humor about what the phrase "race wars" contains before the cars come out Why Buy This The cars are smiling. The race is on. There are stakes. There is competition. There is automotive drama at the highest level this particular illustrated format can achieve. The title is accurate. The content is what the title describes. The experience of reading this book begins before the book is opened, in the moment of reading the title and processing the title, and the book then delivers the car race it promised while being aware of everything the title produced before the cover was lifted. Buy it for someone who will have the full experience of the title before the book is opened. Buy it for someone who loves cars and will be confused by the initial reaction and then delighted by the content. Buy it for someone who needs the laugh that comes from something working exactly as expected and not at all as expected simultaneously. The cars are racing. Everyone is smiling. It's race day. 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This adult parody book is about a street cat with a personality and a reputation, and the name of that cat is doing the work that the entire book builds around. Ratchet Pussy struts. Ratchet Pussy has been places. Ratchet Pussy is judging you as she passes and you both know it. The illustrated cartoon art captures her perfectly. The text confirms what the art suggests. Everything in this book is about a cat. It is very much about a cat. The cat's name is Ratchet Pussy and she deserves her own book. 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The smelly rash is there. The alley is there. The scraps she's working for are there. All of it is waiting for your artistic contribution to a story that is definitely about a cat. This adult colouring book takes the original Ratchet Pussy and renders every verse in illustrated colouring-page format, because apparently the adult colouring book format has no restrictions on subject matter and this particular cat's biography deserves the hands-on treatment. The meditation of colouring meets the chaos of Ratchet Pussy's life choices, and the combination is either deeply therapeutic or the opposite of therapeutic, and either outcome is the correct adult colouring experience when the subject is a cat this committed to her lifestyle. This Book IS For: Fans of the original Ratchet Pussy who want the colouring book extension of a cat story that was always destined for this format Adults who use colouring as a relaxation tool and want to test how relaxed they can stay while colouring a cat named Ratchet Pussy Anyone who appreciates an adult colouring book that doesn't pretend the "adult" in "adult colouring book" has to mean botanical illustrations Gift-givers who want to combine the activity gift with the gag gift in a single item that works on both levels This Book Is NOT For: People who bought adult colouring books for their mental health benefits and are protective of what they expose those benefits to Readers who feel cats deserve to be represented in colouring books in a more flattering light Anyone who hasn't read Ratchet Pussy and will need the full context to understand why she's coloured the way she is, which is any colour you choose, because this is your artistic expression now Colouring purists who feel the genre peaked with celestial maps and abstract geometric patterns Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties where the activity portion of the evening benefits from having something to do with their hands and also laugh at Gag gifts for the cat owner whose cat's behavior is best described as "ratchet" and who will recognize the taxonomy immediately White elephant exchanges where you want to give something usable and also completely unhinged Anyone who already owns the original and needs the version where they can contribute their own artistic decisions to the alley narrative Why Buy This The adult colouring market has given you every option: forests, galaxies, intricate patterns, botanical collections, architecture, animals in dignified poses. None of those options are Ratchet Pussy prowling the alley at whatever hour Ratchet Pussy keeps. This fills the gap. You have the markers. You have the coloured pencils. You have the question of what colour best represents a cat who eats what she eats and does what she does and feels no particular way about any of it. The answer is yours. The pages are waiting. Buy it for someone who will use it. Buy it for someone who will display it. Buy it for someone who has every other adult colouring book and needs the one that the other adult colouring books looked at and said nothing. Ratchet Pussy talks. Every page tells you where she's been. Pick up your pencils. The alley is right there. She's already out there working. 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The book builds twenty pages on top of the name with complete commitment. This adult parody book is a classic fairy tale adaptation that replaces the title character's name with a medically specific alternative and then follows the logical implications of that replacement through the entire story structure. The doctor has unusual interests. The interests are related to the specialization implied by the name. The fairy tale format gives the content the distance of folklore, which is the same distance that makes all dark fairy tales bearable, and it works here for the same reason it always works. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciated fairy tale adaptations that commit to their premise rather than pulling back at the last moment Medical professionals with a very specific sense of humor about their specialty and what's available in the gift market Fans of wordplay-based parody that earns its laugh from the name and then spends the book delivering on that promise Gift-givers who want to hand someone a fairy tale that takes a very specific and unexpected direction from the first page This Book Is NOT For: People who enjoyed the original Rumpelstiltskin story and feel the reinterpretation shows insufficient respect for the source material Medical professionals who find their specialty used as a punchline rather than an area of clinical expertise Readers who need their fairy tale characters to have names that work in all contexts including professional ones Anyone who is going to read this in the pediatrician's waiting room and hasn't thought about the visual Appropriate For: Gag gifts for healthcare professionals, specifically those in relevant specialties, who have the self-awareness to appreciate this White elephant exchanges where "fairy tale with a very specific twist" is the energy the gift-giver was going for Anyone who has ever read a fairy tale and thought "this would be funnier with one specific naming change" Bachelorette parties... Rumpleforeskin is, surprisingly, bachelorette party content once you read the premise Why Buy This Fairy tales have always had a darkness underneath them that the Disney adaptations smoothed away. This book takes that darkness in a completely different direction than the Grimm Brothers were going, and then names it clearly so there's no confusion about the direction. Rumpleforeskin is a doctor. The fairy tale format gives the content legitimacy as narrative structure. The name gives the content its entire reason for being. That name is on the cover. The cover is available for purchase. Buy it for someone who appreciated the original fairy tale as a child and needs the adult version the original was always slightly leading toward. Buy it for a healthcare professional who has a sense of humor about their field that most healthcare professional gift options don't acknowledge. Buy it because Rumpleforeskin has never had a book before and the gap in the market has been apparent for some time. The fairy tale is complete. The name is on the door. Guess who's there. https://bradgosse.com/products/rumpleforeskin?variant=50679061184815 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0DHD3ST3D.png?v=1731102245&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0DHD3ST3D 543543 44460103729455 Santa's Lil Humper Saves Christmas... The Elf With The Most Specific Job Title In The Workshop It's Christmas Eve and Santa is ready to deliver presents so kids can be happy. Santa has a helper. Santa's helper has a name and a job description that this book will document with illustrated cartoon art and the specific commitment of a Christmas story that decided not to be careful. Santa's Lil Humper saves Christmas. The Christmas-saving methodology is in the name. The name is on the cover. The cover is available for purchase and subsequent presentation at holiday events where it will generate a specific kind of reaction from every adult in attendance. This adult parody holiday book takes the Christmas special format... the lovable helper, the holiday emergency, the resolution... and applies it with the vocabulary of a character name that has been selected with complete awareness of what it implies. It is a Christmas book. It is for adults. The holiday cheer is real. The character's name is also real. Both things coexist on the same cover, which is the whole premise, and the premise delivers in exactly the way you expect and yet delivers anyway because the execution is committed. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate holiday content that commits to its character-name premise for the entire run of the story Fans of Christmas humor that goes somewhere the Hallmark channel has not gone and will not be going Anyone who has needed a holiday book that works for every adult at the table and zero children Gift-givers who want the holiday exchange gift that produces the most memorable reaction of the evening This Book Is NOT For: People who believe Christmas content should operate within established tonal parameters regardless of the audience's age Anyone currently coordinating a Christmas pageant who needs materials that can be used in multiple settings Readers who feel Santa's workshop should not be expanded to include job titles of this nature The elf, who did not choose the name but has made the most of it and saved Christmas, so credit where due Appropriate For: Holiday white elephant and Dirty Santa... this is the Dirty Santa gift; no further research required Office holiday parties where someone decided the gift exchange was going to be memorable this year Any holiday gathering of adults where the presence of a book called Santa's Lil Humper on the table generates appropriate festivity Gag gifts for anyone whose holiday humor runs toward the end of the range that this book occupies Why Buy This Holiday gifts are traditionally: wine, candles, tin of cookies, gift card. These are fine gifts. None of them will be discussed at the next holiday gathering when someone says "remember last year." This book will be discussed. This book will be the thing someone brings up when explaining why they chose a different venue for the holiday party this year. That is the kind of lasting impact that a tin of cookies cannot achieve regardless of how good the shortbreads are. Santa's Lil Humper saved Christmas. The book documents how. The how involves the character's name and the job title that name implies. Buy it for someone whose holiday humor requires something in a category that most holiday content doesn't enter. The elf is ready. Christmas is saved. The gift exchange has a clear winner. 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Among her goat brethren, Becky stands apart. Not just for her remarkable throat capacity but for her unrelenting ambition to take that talent to the next level. And what better way to showcase her “gift” than by entering the grand spectacle that is Sausage Fest—a place where sausages of all shapes, sizes, and flavors are celebrated in a carnival of culinary excess. Imagine a Renaissance fair, but instead of jousting, it’s all about meat consumption. Naturally, Becky fits right in. With rhymes that dance on the edge of tastefulness and illustrations that veer far past it, Sausage Fest takes readers on a journey through Becky’s rise to festival stardom. Picture the scene: rows of sausages gleaming in the sunlight, crowds of goats cheering her on, and Becky, sitting like a Zen master, ready to deep throat her way to glory. This isn’t just a story; it’s an experience. You’ll follow Becky as she steps up to the festival stage, a humble goat with an unmatched gift. You’ll witness the gasps, the applause, the sheer awe of the crowd as she devours every sausage in sight without missing a beat. And you’ll laugh (or cry) as her triumph proves, once again, that being extraordinary often means being weird as hell. Let’s be real: this book isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the friend who laughed at the original Becky, The Throat Goat and then asked, “When’s the sequel coming out?” It’s for the black sheep of the family (or maybe the black goat) who thrives on chaos and inappropriate humor. It’s for anyone who thinks life should be just a little more ridiculous, and a lot more fun. The pages of Sausage Fest are dripping with Becky’s signature charm and an unapologetic level of absurdity that might make you question your life choices. But isn’t that what great literature is all about? You’re not just buying a book. You’re buying a guaranteed way to derail any family gathering or office party. 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This adult parody book uses double entendre and deliberately ambiguous phrasing to walk a very specific tonal line: acknowledging what its characters have done while finding the absurdist humor in the rehabilitation narrative. Every sentence technically describes innocent activities that have been reported ambiguously. The "looking over a wall" was looking over a wall. The ball in the park was a ball in the park. The neighborhood has processed these situations and arrived at conclusions the book does not share but documents faithfully. This Book IS For: Fans of dark comedy that operates through maximum plausible deniability while clearly knowing what it's doing Adults who appreciate humor that lives in the gap between the literal statement and its unavoidable interpretation Anyone who has ever read a news item and caught the gap between what was alleged and what was proven Gift-givers who want to hand someone something with a title that requires processing before the content becomes clear This Book Is NOT For: People who find the subject matter too close to real harm to be a vehicle for double entendre comedy Readers who believe this category of offense should not be satirized regardless of the execution or intent Anyone in law enforcement who has specific, professional opinions about this topic that preclude finding it funny Neighborhood watch coordinators who are meeting about something adjacent to this next Tuesday Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where the title does the work and the content reveals a completely defensible story Gag gifts for the friend who appreciates comedy that maintains plausible deniability across the entire runtime Anyone who enjoys the specific comedy of double meaning done with full commitment and zero acknowledgment Occasions where you want a book that starts a conversation about what "trying to be good" actually looks like Why Buy This The rehabilitation narrative is one of the most complex in the human experience. This book addresses it with cartoon art and sentences that are technically about one thing while being received as something else, and the gap between those two things is where the humor lives. Becky looked over a wall. Steve had a ball at the park. The neighborhood has opinions. The book records the opinions, the activities, and the cautious ongoing attempts at community integration. At the price of a neighborhood watch flyer that nobody reads past the first line, you get a book that has a first line, a second line, and sixteen more pages of context that reframes the situation repeatedly. The sex offenders are trying. The trying is illustrated. Whether the trying is working is a question the book raises and the neighborhood continues to assess. Buy it. Add it to your understanding of the rehabilitation conversation. Steve wants to be good. Becky is working on it. The ball was recreational. https://bradgosse.com/products/sex-offenders-trying-to-be-good-in-your-neighbourhood-signed-copy?variant=44460106645807 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0917P4Y95.png?v=1675972166&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798729358335 B0917P4Y95 543543 44460107235631 Sex Toy Story... To Infinity, And No Thank You, And Actually Fine, And This Is Happening When parents go to sleep, their toys will play. But tomorrow is another day... a Valentine's Day, specifically, and certain items in the bedside drawer have been reflecting on their situation, their purpose, and what it means to be a toy that exists in a specific adult context. This book is the Toy Story that Pixar passed on. The toys have feelings. The toys have rivalries. The toys have opinions about the newer toys and the situation in the drawer and where they stand in the hierarchy. It is an ensemble story. The ensemble is toys. The specific kind is in the title. This adult parody book takes the beloved animated movie structure... toys with personalities, toy relationships, toy existential crises... and applies it to an adult product category that has never received this narrative treatment despite being an obvious fit for the format. The toys want to be played with. The toys have feelings about when they're not. The drawer dynamics are political. The Valentine's Day timeline creates urgency. This is a heist story. The heist involves toys. Everything is fine and also everything is a lot. This Book IS For: Adults who watched Toy Story and thought "but what about the other kind of toys" and then needed a book Fans of parody that takes a beloved IP, identifies the obvious adult extension, and executes it with total commitment Anyone who has ever personified an inanimate object and felt some empathy for its situation Gift-givers attending a Valentine's Day event or bachelorette party where the theme has already been established This Book Is NOT For: People who consider Toy Story a sacred text that should not be extended into product categories it didn't originally cover Readers who need their toy characters to have been manufactured with children in mind Anyone who will now be unable to watch the original Toy Story without thinking about this book's premise Valentine's Day gift recipients who were expecting something in a more traditional register Appropriate For: Valentine's Day... this is the Valentine's Day book; no further research is required Bachelorette parties where the theme is "adult content delivered through beloved childhood formats" White elephant exchanges where everyone in the room will immediately understand what has happened Gag gifts for the Toy Story fan in your life who also has a sense of humor about the full toy ecosystem Why Buy This The toys in your bedside drawer have an inner life. This has never been addressed in illustrated form until now. They have feelings about their schedule. They have opinions about the newer models. They have an existential relationship with Valentine's Day that this book documents with the same earnest character-development energy that made the original movie work. The premise is obvious once you see it. The book is the proof that it was waiting to be written. Buy it. The toys waited long enough. Valentine's Day gifts are typically: flowers, chocolates, jewelry. One of those things lasts. The others are consumed or wilt within a week. This book lasts, generates more conversation than flowers, and acknowledges the full reality of the Valentine's Day ecosystem in a way that a box of chocolates cannot manage. To infinity. And other places. The toys have things to do. The book documents it. Happy Valentine's Day. https://bradgosse.com/products/sex-toy-story-signed-copy?variant=44460107235631 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B092HLG4JW.png?v=1675972178&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798737492441 B092HLG4JW 543543 50239510544687 Short Kings Need Love Too... A Vertical Disadvantage That Is, Statistically, Being Compensated For Listen up. Here's a story so real. Short kings on the dating apps are out here, getting left-swiped, and showing up anyway with the energy of people who have made peace with a specific number on a driver's license and decided that the number does not define them. The short kings of this book are documented with the hip-hop adjacent narration that someone decided was correct for the subject matter and the subject matter agrees. Short kings need love too. The book makes the case. The case is both emotional and statistical, and the statistics are in the book. This adult parody book celebrates a specific demographic that has been underrepresented in positive illustrated content and overrepresented in dating app filter settings. The short king is real. The short king's challenges are real. The short king's compensating qualities... which the book documents with enthusiasm and cartoon art... are also real. This is an advocacy book. This is comedy. These two things are compatible. The book proves it across twenty pages of illustrated content that is both for and about short kings. This Book IS For: Short kings who need to see themselves celebrated in illustrated form rather than in the filter they didn't pass Anyone who dates short kings and wants to give them a book that says: I see you and also I find this funny and also these are compatible Fans of parody that takes a real cultural phenomenon and turns it into advocacy via comedy Gift-givers who want to hand a short king something that will either make him laugh or become his personality for a week This Book Is NOT For: Tall people who take this personally, which would be the most disproportionate response in a book about proportions Dating app enthusiasts who believe the height filter is a legitimate and defensible preference that deserves no examination Short kings who have not yet arrived at the self-confident stage of their short king journey and need a few more months Anyone who thinks the short king phrase is already tired, which is incorrect, which the book confirms Appropriate For: Gag gifts for the short king in your life who has made his height into a personality and needs the physical artifact Valentine's Day gifts for the short king you are dating or the short king who is pining for you White elephant exchanges where someone in the group is going to recognize the subject matter immediately Bachelorette parties where at least one ex being discussed had certain qualities and certain limitations Why Buy This The short king has been chronically underserved by the gift market. Most gifts for men assume a certain altitude. This book does not. This book meets the short king where he stands, which is exactly where he has always stood, and it celebrates that position with illustrated enthusiasm and the kind of comedic advocacy that says: you are seen, your challenges are acknowledged, and also this is funny and those two things can exist together without either one canceling the other. Short kings need love too. The book makes this case over twenty pages and makes it well. Buy it for the short king in your life. Buy it for someone who dates short kings. Buy it for someone who used a height filter and wants to examine that decision with some distance. The short king energy is real. The love is warranted. The book is illustrated proof. Stand tall. Relatively. https://bradgosse.com/products/short-kings-need-love-too-signed-copy?variant=50239510544687 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CZ66PCC2.png?v=1720546031&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0CZ66PCC2 543543 44460110184751 Sick Pets To Make You Sad Before Bed Time... A Veterinary Visit You Will Not Recover From Tonight Welcome to the vet. Many sick pets are here. Many will die. Please don't get upset. This is the bedtime book that is not for bedtime in any functional sense unless the function you want bedtime to serve is an extended emotional experience that carries into the next morning. The pets are sick. Some are critical. The cartoon art is cheerful in the way that veterinary clinic posters are cheerful, which is to say they are clearly trying and it is clearly not enough. This book introduces the patients. It does not promise outcomes for all of them. This is honest. Most bedtime books are not this honest. This adult parody book is dark humor about pet illness, which is a subject most people have personal experience with and for which the coping strategies available include this book. Humor and grief have always coexisted in the way that this book demonstrates: the cartoons are cute, the premise is not, the gap between those two things is where people laugh and then feel something and then laugh again because the feeling is too much to hold without some humor nearby. The pets are sick. The book is honest about it. That's the whole offer. This Book IS For: Anyone who has lost a pet and has traveled far enough from the loss to find this funny and cathartic Fans of dark humor that uses cheerful art direction to make difficult subject matter approachable People who know that grief and humor coexist and find books that acknowledge this more honest than books that don't Gift-givers who want to give something to a pet owner who can handle the full emotional range this delivers This Book Is NOT For: Pet owners whose pet is currently ill and who do not have the emotional bandwidth for this particular bedtime reading People who believe pet illness should be treated with consistent gravity and never as a vehicle for comedy Readers who need all sick pets to recover and the vet visits to end in healthy discharge and reduced bills Children, obviously, for whom this book would function as delivered: something that makes them sad before bed Appropriate For: Gag gifts for veterinary professionals who have seen enough to find this funny and need something for the break room White elephant exchanges where the room includes pet owners who have had the vet experience and can laugh about it now Gifts for the friend who recently lost a pet and has arrived at the stage where dark humor is useful Bedtime, ironically, for adults who want to cry a little before sleep and find that clarifying Why Buy This Pet medical care costs thousands of dollars annually in this country, and the emotional cost runs higher. This book costs a fraction of a single vet visit and provides the emotional acknowledgment that vet visits provide the bill for but not the processing space. The pets are sick. Many will die. The book is honest about this in a way that is simultaneously the darkest and most accurate thing available in this format. Dark accuracy has value. This book has it. Buy it for someone who has been to the vet recently and needs to laugh. Buy it for a veterinarian who has seen too much to find this shocking and just enough to find it funny. Buy it because pets are mortal and the illustrated children's book format has been avoiding this conversation for too long. The vet is open. The patients are in. Don't get upset. Many will be fine. Some will not. The book is honest. Fewer things are. https://bradgosse.com/products/sick-pets-to-make-you-sad-before-bed-time-signed-copy?variant=44460110184751 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08LNN57H1.png?v=1675972211&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798551112679 B08LNN57H1 543543 50239508971823 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/single-moms-need-cock-signed-copy?variant=50239508971823 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CS6NB19J.png?v=1720546010&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0CS6NB19J 543543 50679061152047 Sketchy Joe Has Too Many Brides... An Airport Town Story With A Complicated Matrimonial Situation In an airport town that is quite crooked and strange, there lives a businessman named Joe who is so deceptive that his name has simply become a descriptor for the lifestyle he has built. Sketchy Joe has brides. He has too many brides. The brides have been acquired in ways that the airport town does not fully understand because Sketchy Joe has been operating in the space between what is legal, what is ethical, and what is too expensive to prosecute. The brides are documented. The sketchiness is documented. The airport town watches. This illustrated adult parody book is about a specific kind of character who appears in the criminal news cycle with reliable frequency: the man with multiple wives acquired through methods that eventually become a story. Sketchy Joe is that story. The cartoon art makes him look like someone you'd warn your daughter about. The text confirms that this instinct is correct. The airport setting means he has always been able to leave quickly. The brides have noticed this in retrospect. This Book IS For: True crime enthusiasts who enjoy the darker comedic angles of stories about human deception at scale Fans of dark humor about the specific type of charismatic confidence man who accumulates more commitments than he can honor Anyone who has ever encountered a Sketchy Joe-type person and processed the experience by describing them to everyone they know Gift-givers who want to acknowledge a certain archetype in illustrated form for the recipient who will immediately know which Joe this is This Book Is NOT For: Anyone currently married to a Joe who has recently noticed some scheduling irregularities Readers who find humor about marriage fraud insufficiently attentive to the real harm involved People who have been Bride One through Bride Whatever and haven't arrived at the finding-it-funny stage Joes who feel the name is being used unfairly to represent a very specific kind of Joe they are not Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties specifically for the purpose of reminding everyone to do background checks White elephant exchanges where someone in the room has a Sketchy Joe story and this is the gift for them True crime book clubs as the lighter-toned offering in an otherwise heavy rotation Gag gifts for the friend who keeps dating people with vague professional descriptions and a lot of frequent flyer miles Why Buy This The Sketchy Joe story has appeared in every country, in every era, in essentially the same format: charismatic man, multiple women, an exit strategy that involves a vehicle and speed. The specific details change. The archetype does not. This book distills the archetype into illustrated form with the dark humor of something that is terrible and also, at sufficient distance, extremely predictable in a way that makes the recognition funny. The airport is always part of the story. Joe always has somewhere to be. Buy it for someone whose last relationship had some Sketchy Joe properties. Buy it for the friend who is currently dating someone and you want to provide a visual reference. Buy it because Sketchy Joe represents a type that everyone encounters and most people fail to identify early enough, and this book provides identification materials at an affordable price. The brides are documented. Joe is sketchy. The airport is right there. 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Professional Development From An Open-Handed Mentor Slappy made films. Slappy made raps. He got his nickname from an open hand slap that occurred at a specific televised event that the entire internet watched in real time, and now Slappy is here to teach you about workplace bullying... specifically, what it looks like, how to recognize it, and how the person doing it tells themselves a story about why it was justified. This is a workplace guide. The guide's author has recent and documented experience in the subject matter. The guide does not frame this as a credential. The reader does the framing. This adult parody book takes a specific cultural moment and turns it into a workplace training resource, which is both funnier and more useful than most workplace training resources that do not reference open-hand slaps or public spectacle. The book is about bullying in the workplace. The book's author-character has done something at a workplace that the internet watched. These two facts coexist without the book needing to comment on either of them directly. The reader connects the dots. The dots are connected before the book is opened. This Book IS For: Anyone who watched the specific event this references and needed time to process it and has now processed it into a book Workplace professionals who find the collision between celebrity behavior and HR compliance genuinely funny Fans of parody that takes a real event and uses it as the basis for content that is technically about something else Gift-givers who want to give someone a workplace guide that they will understand immediately on a level the cover confirms This Book Is NOT For: People who feel this event has been discussed enough and would prefer a moratorium on its use as comedy material HR professionals who feel workplace bullying is too serious to be treated with this specific tonal approach Anyone who saw the event and found it only upsetting without any comedic distance having developed since Workplaces currently dealing with an active bullying situation that references this event explicitly Appropriate For: Office Secret Santa... the most specific Office Secret Santa book available for offices that are aware of current events White elephant exchanges where reading the book's author's nickname to the room is the entire gift-giving experience Gag gifts for anyone who works in entertainment, media, or any industry where award shows are relevant to their professional context Gifts for the HR professional in your life who has seen this event cited in workplace conversations and needs to laugh about it Why Buy This Workplace training materials are universally dull, frequently ineffective, and priced at a level that suggests the content is better than it is. This workplace training material is priced honestly, engages directly with an event that everyone in the professional world has discussed, and teaches about bullying by using a bully as the author-character without once making that explicit because it doesn't have to. The dots are connected. The training is complete. The open-hand slap is the pedagogy. Slappy Will has things to teach you. The teachings concern workplace behavior. The workplace behavior in question is documented by approximately seven hundred million internet views and does not need further description. The book is the follow-up. The follow-up is available. Buy it for someone who will read the name Slappy Will and immediately understand everything. Immediately. Before the first page. That's efficient content delivery. That's professional development that works. https://bradgosse.com/products/slappy-will-kids-guide-to-bullying-in-the-workplace-signed-copy?variant=44460104352047 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09XFN3M8F.png?v=1675972144&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798447781484 B09XFN3M8F 543543 50239508873519 Social Credit: A Guide To Virtue Signalling... Accumulating Points In A System That Doesn't Actually Track Them If you're mid and life is bland, the social credit system has opportunities for you. This book is a guide to virtue signalling: the art of communicating values through conspicuous displays rather than actions, accumulating social capital from an audience that has agreed to distribute it in exchange for content that matches their existing positions. The guide covers the major categories, the scoring rubrics, the optimal platforms for deployment, and the kinds of performance that yield the highest returns in the contemporary digital attention economy. It is a practical guide. The cynicism is the practicality. This adult parody book is satire of the performance of values in a social media landscape where the performance and the values have become genuinely difficult to tell apart. It is funny because it is accurate. The accuracy is in the specificity of the scoring system, the platform strategies, and the particular moves that generate engagement from audiences that reward content signaling alignment with their own positions. The guide doesn't pick a side. It documents the game as it's actually being played by everyone who is playing it. This Book IS For: Adults who have noticed the gap between what people say publicly and what those same people do privately and find the gap interesting Fans of satire that turns a critical eye on online performance culture without claiming to be above the same dynamics Anyone who has drafted a social media post, considered the reception, and adjusted the post accordingly before posting Gift-givers who want to give something that will generate a defensive reaction in at least one person at the party This Book Is NOT For: People who will read this satire of virtue signalling and signal their virtue in response, which is a real possibility Readers who find all satire of online behavior insufficiently attentive to the real social goods that some of that behavior produces Anyone currently developing a content strategy that this book might describe too accurately for comfort People who have zero social media presence and find this entire conversation irrelevant, in which case congratulations Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges among groups of people with strong social media presences who can laugh at the ecosystem Gifts for the social media manager in your life who navigates this system professionally and could use the laugh Any occasion where you want to give something that generates a slightly defensive reaction before the laugh arrives Gag gifts for the person in your life who posts the most and means all of it and can appreciate someone noticing Why Buy This The social credit system this book describes does not officially exist, but the behavior it documents very much does, and the gap between those two facts is where the satire lives. Points are being accumulated. Audiences are distributing them. The platforms are profiting from the distribution. The guide covers the mechanics of this system with the cheerful practical detachment of a real guide, and the effect is funny precisely because the system it's describing is real even though nobody has officially named it as such. Buy it for someone who is online. Buy it for someone who would describe themselves as "chronically online" as a badge of honor. Buy it for someone whose social media presence has become their primary personality and who has enough self-awareness to find that funny rather than accurate. The guide is complete. The points are being tracked somewhere. This book explains the system to the people participating in it, which is a service no algorithm has thought to provide. https://bradgosse.com/products/social-credit-a-guide-to-virtue-signalling-signed-copy?variant=50239508873519 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CCXR2CF9.png?v=1720546007&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0CCXR2CF9 543543 44460116246831 Sofa King... The Monarch Of His Domain, And The Domain Is The Couch This is the sofa. On this sofa, there is a king. The king is Sofa King, and on the new sofa, Sofa King can do anything. He is Sofa King comfortable. He is Sofa King satisfied. Every sentence in this book contains the phrase "Sofa King" in a context that is entirely about a man on a sofa and the manner in which that sofa defines his sovereignty and his experience of it. The sofa is the kingdom. The man is the king. The name is Sofa King. If you say that name out loud, the book will have accomplished what it set out to do. That is the book. This adult parody book is pure wordplay humor executed with the commitment of a twenty-page illustrated dedication to a single phonetic joke. The name Sofa King is said as many times as possible. Each time it is said, it is said in a context that is technically about a couch. The technical accuracy is the whole game. Say "Sofa King comfortable" out loud. Say "Sofa King happy." Say "Sofa King tired of people not appreciating this joke." That last one is not in the book. The rest are variations on the theme and they are all there. This Book IS For: Adults who appreciate a wordplay joke executed at maximum length with complete commitment across an illustrated book Fans of phonetic humor who find that the joke gets funnier every time you say it rather than wearing out Anyone who has ever said something technically innocent that sounded like something else and laughed for too long Gift-givers who want to hand someone a book whose title produces the laugh before anyone opens it This Book Is NOT For: People who heard "Sofa King" and didn't hear what everyone else hears, which is a hearing situation worth investigating Readers who find wordplay that relies on homophonic similarity less sophisticated than other forms of humor Anyone who says "Sofa King" out loud and then immediately feels nothing, which is not an experience this book was designed for People who have been at a naming meeting where "Sofa King" was proposed and voted against and carry the wound Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where reading the title to the room is enough to win the exchange before it starts Gag gifts for anyone who loves puns, wordplay, or phonetic humor that commits completely to its premise Any occasion where you want to give a book that starts a chain reaction: someone says the name, someone else laughs, someone else asks why, the cycle begins Gifts for people who spend significant portions of their life on a sofa and deserve to be acknowledged as the kings they are Why Buy This Some jokes work once. Sofa King works every time someone says the name, which this book will make happen repeatedly over the course of twenty illustrated pages, and then again every time anyone picks it up and reads the title aloud to a new audience. The joke does not wear out. The joke is the name. The name is always the name. The name is Sofa King. Say it again. Same thing happens. That consistency is worth the price of admission. The Sofa King is comfortable. The Sofa King is satisfied. The Sofa King is happy about his sofa and willing to describe his happiness in terms that remain technically about furniture. Buy it for someone who laughed at "Sofa King" and needs the complete experience in illustrated form. Buy it for someone who owns a great sofa and deserves the title to go with it. The kingdom is the couch. The king is Sofa King. The price is reasonable for a monarch. https://bradgosse.com/products/sofa-king-signed-copy?variant=44460116246831 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09Q1YC7DG.png?v=1675972326&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798798079131 B09Q1YC7DG 543543 44460102189359 Star Whores: Sex Workers Across The Galaxy... The Force Has Other Applications A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... it turns out that the oldest profession has also made the jump to hyperspace. The galaxy is vast. The galaxy has needs. The sex workers of this book have responded to those needs across multiple star systems, with the enthusiasm of people who have found their calling and the practicality of people who have found their market. The Force is with them in the specific sense that the Force is everywhere and does not appear to restrict its distribution based on job category. The galaxy is big. The opportunities are proportional. This adult parody book is a space opera with a very specific economy at its center. The familiar star systems, the various species, the hyperspace trade routes... all of it has been repurposed in service of a premise that the original franchise has never addressed and that this book addresses with complete commitment and cartoon art. The spaceships are real. The lightsabers are present. The sex workers are the narrative focus. May the Force be with everyone involved, which it is, because it's the Force. This Book IS For: Star Wars fans who have considered the full economic ecosystem of the galaxy far, far away and noticed a gap in the official canon Adults who appreciate parody that commits to a mashup premise without apologizing for the specific combination it chose Fans of both space opera and the darker corners of adult parody who have been waiting for an intersection Gift-givers who want the comic sci-fi book that earns its laugh from the title before anyone opens the cover This Book Is NOT For: Serious Star Wars fans who feel the IP deserves better than this particular application Anyone who has never seen the source material and needs context the book does not stop to provide Readers who need their space operas to operate at a tonal altitude above what the title announces Lucasfilm legal, though they probably already know, and here we all are Appropriate For: Any Star Wars fan's birthday, with appropriate audience calibration before delivery White elephant exchanges among sci-fi fans who will appreciate the specific parody target Bachelorette parties where at least one person in the group has cosplayed at some point Gag gifts for anyone who owns too much Star Wars merch and needs one item that the Disney store doesn't carry Why Buy This The official Star Wars expanded universe has produced thousands of books across every conceivable genre. This is the one genre it has not covered officially. The gap has been identified. The gap has been addressed. The galaxy far, far away is now complete in a way that the mainline canon cannot acknowledge but that clearly needed to happen for narrative closure. Some stories wait decades to be told. This one waited long enough. Buy it for the Star Wars fan who has everything. They do not have this. Buy it for the person who quotes the films and would appreciate a quote from this specific volume at an unexpected moment. Buy it because the galaxy is big enough for all kinds of stories and this one finally exists. The Force is with them. All of them. Across the galaxy. The book is your only hope. Of giving a gift this specific. https://bradgosse.com/products/star-whores-sex-workers-across-the-galaxy-signed-copy?variant=44460102189359 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0BD4SNY12.png?v=1675972114&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798849876375 B0BD4SNY12 543543 44460108185903 STD's & You: Learning From The Animals At The Zoo... A Public Health Curriculum With Field Trips Dad had unprotected butt sex with a strange man. His visit to the doctor wasn't great. These are the opening facts of a book that has committed to an educational mission with more candor than most educational materials are prepared to match. The animals at the zoo have their own situations. The giraffe has information relevant to one area. The monkey has information relevant to another. This is a zoo visit structured as an STD awareness curriculum, and the curriculum is complete and honest in a way that the school system's version usually isn't by the time the lawyers have been consulted. This adult parody book is sex education via zoo animals, with Dad's situation as the case study that opens the class. It is funny because it is honest. It is honest because the illustrated children's book format somehow creates more room for directness than the adult health pamphlet format, which spends so much energy being appropriate that it forgets to be informative. This book is informative. Dad is the cautionary tale. The animals confirm the science. Class is in session. This Book IS For: Adults who received a sex education that left significant gaps and have since filled those gaps through experience they would have preferred to avoid Public health enthusiasts who believe information is the most effective prevention and want that information delivered via cartoon zoo animals Fans of dark comedy that is simultaneously genuinely educational and genuinely funny Gift-givers who want to hand someone a zoo book that is about the zoo and also about something the zoo is being used to discuss This Book Is NOT For: Sex educators who feel their curriculum is being appropriated for purposes that undermine the clinical seriousness of the subject Zoo animals, who did not consent to being used as educational models for human health decisions Dads who recognize the case study and are not ready to laugh about it in illustrated form Anyone planning to use this as the sole sex education resource for an actual child without professional guidance Appropriate For: Gag gifts for healthcare professionals who have seen the real-world version of this curriculum play out in their practice White elephant exchanges where the educational angle gives the gift plausible deniability as a health resource Anyone who grew up with a sex education that was so incomplete they ended up learning from less structured sources Gifts for the friend who has a specific story involving a healthcare professional that they've been telling for years Why Buy This The public health system spends billions of dollars on STI prevention education and the statistics suggest the spending has room for improvement. This book approaches the same curriculum from a different angle: Dad's experience, the zoo's supporting evidence, and illustrated cartoon art that makes the information memorable in a way that a pamphlet in a clinic waiting room has never managed. The information is real. The approach is not conventional. The conventional approach's track record is available for review. Dad went to the doctor. The doctor had information. The zoo has been providing supporting educational content for years without anyone producing a book about it until now. This book is the book. The animals are ready. Dad's situation is documented. The curriculum is complete. For roughly the cost of the co-pay that preceded the conversation that generated this content, you get the illustrated version. Learn from Dad. The zoo concurs. https://bradgosse.com/products/stds-you-learning-from-the-animals-at-the-zoo-signed-copy?variant=44460108185903 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08JF5K5NK.png?v=1675972181&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798688750102 B08JF5K5NK 543543 50239510282543 Sugar Babies: Dad's Secret Friends... A Financial Arrangement That Is Also Just Friends Dad has new friends. They're young. They're pretty. They love having his attention and he loves the attention too, and the whole thing is described as friendship in this book with the same documentary sincerity that the book brings to the "just friends" framing that everyone involved has agreed to maintain publicly. The friends have needs. Dad has resources. The arrangement has a name in contemporary culture that is not "friendship," but the book uses "friendship" because dad uses "friendship," and the book is documenting dad's account of the situation with zero editorial comment and all the illustration budget. This adult parody book takes the sugar daddy/sugar baby dynamic and places it inside the children's book format that handles adult situations with the most effective combination of visual innocence and narrative honesty. Dad's friends are documented. Their dynamic with dad is documented. The specifics of what makes the friendship mutually beneficial are documented with cartoon art and the cheerful neutrality of a book that has decided the arrangement is between consenting adults and the only job here is to illustrate it accurately. This Book IS For: Adults who are familiar with the sugar baby phenomenon and find the children's book framing of it exactly the right amount of wrong Fans of dark comedy about adult arrangements that uses innocence of format to make the content land differently than it would in direct treatment Anyone who has encountered this dynamic in the wild and needed something to process the observation with Gift-givers attending a bachelorette party or similar event where dad's secret friends are a topic of cultural conversation This Book Is NOT For: People who find the sugar arrangement dynamic less funny and more economic than this book's framing suggests Dads who have secret friends and have not budgeted for their children finding this book in any context Readers who need the arrangement to be interrogated rather than illustrated with cheerful cartoon art Anyone who is currently one of dad's secret friends and finds the illustrated treatment undignified Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties where the lifestyle of one of dad's friends is a known talking point White elephant exchanges where the cultural phenomenon being satirized is universally recognized Gag gifts for anyone who has ever used the phrase "sugar baby" in a sentence about someone they know Gifts for anyone who has navigated the "dad's friend" explanation in a family context Why Buy This The sugar relationship has been the subject of documentaries, think pieces, and subscription-service profiles. It has not been the subject of an illustrated children's book until now, which is an oversight the market has corrected. The illustrated children's book format provides the exact tonal distance that makes the subject approachable as comedy: the art is charming, the narrator is innocent, and the arrangement is whatever dad says it is, which is "just friends," which is the whole joke, which works. Buy it for someone who will understand the title immediately and then look at you with the specific expression of recognition and appreciation. That expression is the return on investment. Dad's friends are documented. The arrangement is illustrated. The neutrality is absolute. The gift is specific. For the cost of roughly one dinner out with a friend who is just a friend, you get a book that documents the whole situation. Nobody needs to know what kind of friend. https://bradgosse.com/products/sugar-babies-dads-secret-friends-signed-copy?variant=50239510282543 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CWB4DG7K.png?v=1720546026&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0CWB4DG7K 543543 44460110872879 Suppositories: The Pills You Put In Your Butt... A Pharmaceutical Delivery Method That No One Was Enthusiastic About Sometimes you're sick and you can't swallow a pill. Or the pill works faster the other way. Or the pharmacist has prescribed something in a format that requires a conversation nobody in the pharmacy line was prepared for. This book explains suppositories. It explains what they are, how they work, where they go, and the specific emotional journey from prescription to administration that the pharmaceutical industry has never addressed with illustrated cartoon art until now. The suppository is real. The application is real. The cartoon art makes it educational. Arguably. This adult parody book takes a real medical topic... one that is handled with extreme diplomatic indirection by every other piece of content in the healthcare space... and addresses it with the direct honesty of an illustrated guide that decided the subject deserved proper documentation. The suppository has been undersold. The suppository is effective. The suppository's route of administration has been avoided in polite conversation for decades and this book declines to continue that avoidance. The pill goes in the butt. The book explains why this is sometimes the correct pharmaceutical decision. This Book IS For: Anyone who has been handed a suppository prescription and experienced the specific moment of understanding what that means Fans of educational content that covers real topics with the directness that the topics deserve and most content avoids Healthcare professionals who navigate suppository conversations regularly and would appreciate the illustrated guide for comparison Gift-givers who want to give something that is technically educational and practically hilarious This Book Is NOT For: People who are currently managing a suppository situation and do not find the timing appropriate for a companion book Pharmacists who feel the suppository deserves a more clinical explanation than cartoon art provides Readers who need their pharmaceutical guides to maintain the tonal dignity of a medication insert Anyone who was not aware suppositories were a thing before this description and is now having a full moment Appropriate For: Gag gifts for healthcare workers who have these conversations regularly and need a visual aid that's actually funny White elephant exchanges where handing someone a suppository book produces the most educational reaction of the evening Gifts for anyone who recently had a hospital stay and encountered the suppository as a post-operative option Medical school gift sets for students who need to understand that some medications arrive via unexpected routes Why Buy This The pharmaceutical industry spends billions on medication development and approximately zero dollars on illustrated guides to suppository administration that are also funny. This book fills that gap for a fraction of the cost of the medication itself, which admittedly is not a high bar given pharmaceutical pricing, but the content-to-cost ratio here is exceptional. The suppository works. The book explains how it works. The cartoon art makes the explanation memorable in a way that a medication insert does not. Buy it for someone who has been prescribed one and needs the emotional support of knowing there's a book about it. Buy it for a healthcare worker who deserves something in the break room that acknowledges the full range of pharmaceutical conversations they have daily. Buy it for anyone who has experienced the suppository option and needs to laugh about it at a safe distance. The pill goes in the butt. The book explains this clearly. That clarity has value. Not all of medicine is comfortable. This book makes one uncomfortable part funny. https://bradgosse.com/products/suppositories-the-pills-you-put-in-your-butt-signed-copy?variant=44460110872879 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B084DGVGVT.png?v=1675972227&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798609920287 B084DGVGVT 543543 44460103663919 Sweat Shop Kids Make Everything You Own... A Supply Chain Transparency Report For The Conscientious Consumer Every object you own has a backstory. Your shirt. Your phone. Your shoes. Your phone case. Your second pair of shoes. All of it arrived via a supply chain that the packaging did not detail and the price tag implied was not worth asking about. This book asks about it. This book follows the supply chain to the place where the supply chain begins, which is frequently a building in a country with different labor standards and several small children who are very good at this by now. This is the provenance report. This is where your stuff comes from. The cartoon art is very cheerful about it. This adult parody book is dark humor about global manufacturing economics, which is a subject that most consumers would prefer to remain abstract and which this book renders concrete with illustrated cartoon art and the specific cheerfulness of a guided factory tour where all the guides are small and the hours are long. The kids are good at their jobs. The jobs exist because you have a phone. These two facts are connected. The book makes the connection visible in the way that cartoon art makes things visible without being possible to look away from. This Book IS For: Consumers who have occasionally thought about where their stuff comes from and then actively decided not to continue thinking about it Fans of dark comedy that uses cartoon art to make economic systems visible rather than keeping them conveniently abstract Anyone who works in supply chain management and has a complicated relationship with their professional knowledge Gift-givers who want to hand someone something that is funny and also a complete supply chain audit in illustrated form This Book Is NOT For: People who have done the work of understanding their supply chain and are making changes and do not need the book Readers who find dark humor about labor exploitation insufficiently attentive to the real harm regardless of the satirical intent Anyone who has their clothes specially made by local artisans and wants their choices acknowledged as sufficient Supply chain executives who have legal concerns about the accuracy of illustrated cartoon art about their industry Appropriate For: Gag gifts for the friend who has described themselves as an "ethical consumer" and is still learning what that means White elephant exchanges among people who own things, which is everyone, making this universally applicable Gifts for anyone who has ever complained about the price of ethically sourced products while holding an alternative Anyone navigating the specific cognitive dissonance of caring about labor practices while owning a smartphone Why Buy This The items you own cost what they cost because of an arrangement that this book illustrates more honestly than the brand's marketing materials were going to. That is not a comfortable fact. The cartoon art makes it slightly more comfortable by being charming about a subject that the raw data presents less charmingly. The book is not calling you a bad person. The book is providing a tour. The tour is illuminating. The kids are good at their jobs. You can decide what to do with the tour information. For the cost of roughly one item that appears in this book's supply chain report, you get a document that describes where everything you own came from. That is the most accurate purchase you will make today. Buy it. The kids made everything else you own. They didn't make the book. The book is the exception. The book is available now, at a price the supply chain made possible. https://bradgosse.com/products/sweat-shop-kids-make-everything-you-own-signed-copy?variant=44460103663919 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0B2WLWSN4.png?v=1675972130&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798834594192 B0B2WLWSN4 543543 50239509659951 That Guy Jack Innitt... A Character Study In A Name That Contains His Whole Personality You know that guy. That guy who's always around, at every party, at every event, who shows up places and insinuates himself into situations with the specific confidence of someone who has never once been aware that the room was not waiting for him. That guy is Jack Innitt. Jack Innitt's name contains within it everything you need to know about the kind of guy Jack Innitt is, how Jack Innitt moves through the world, and why the phrase "Jack Innitt" has multiple syllables that work phonetically in a way that the book has made its entire premise. This adult parody book is built entirely on a name that contains a description, which is the most efficient comedic premise available and the one that the Mike series has proven can sustain multiple volumes. Jack Innitt is a guy. The guy's name is Jack Innitt. The name tells you who the guy is. The book confirms what the name tells you. The cover tells you the name. You already know what you're getting before the book is opened. That's the whole deal. Jack Innitt. Say it again. Correct. This Book IS For: Adults who understood what "Jack Innitt" means phonetically before finishing reading the title and are correct Fans of name-based humor that trusts the audience to do the phonetic work without the book explaining it Anyone who knows a Jack Innitt-type person, which is everyone, because that guy is everywhere Gift-givers who want to hand someone a book and watch the name land with the timing the premise requires This Book Is NOT For: People who read "Jack Innitt" and need a moment, and then another moment, and then possibly help Readers who require their character names to not contain phonetic double meanings in the protagonist-description tradition Anyone named Jack who has had their name used this way before and has a complicated history with it Situations where reading the name aloud would require explaining it, because the explanation is worse than the gap Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges where reading the name to the room is the gift before the gift is given Gag gifts alongside other name-based books for the friend who collects these with the appreciation they deserve Bachelorette parties for the same reasons Jack Innitt has always been bachelorette party content Any occasion where you want to give a book whose cover does all the work and the interior confirms it Why Buy This Jack Innitt is at the party. Jack Innitt is always at the party. Jack Innitt was not explicitly invited to the party but has a strong sense that his presence improves the situation and acts accordingly. Jack Innitt's name is his biography. The book is the illustrated version of that biography. The name and the biography align perfectly, which is rare in life and constant in this book, and that alignment is worth the cost of admission. Buy it for someone who will say the name and then go quiet and then look at you with the expression that confirms they understand. That expression is the whole gift. The book is the physical object the expression requires. Jack Innitt exists. Jack Innitt has a book. Jack Innitt is in there. The book is yours. The name is on the cover. That's all anyone needed to know. https://bradgosse.com/products/that-guy-jack-innitt-signed-copy?variant=50239509659951 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CP1QPQ8F.png?v=1720546019&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0CP1QPQ8F 543543 44460110971183 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/thats-hot-kids-guide-to-whats-hot-and-whats-not-signed-copy?variant=44460110971183 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HRV2RTW.png?v=1675972231&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798684463280 B08HRV2RTW 543543 57967036465455 The Big Hunt: Yes, This Is a Real Book That Exists and Was Published on Purpose Congratulations. You found it. A picture book about a group of grown adults who go into the woods to do Big Hunt together. Dave brings his rifle, shaft thick and long. Steve gets on all fours because he is the tracker and that is simply what trackers do outdoors. Lisa has bagged Big Hunt on the last six trips and is frankly better at this than anyone else in the group. They crouch deep in the crevice. They brave the bush. They find a magnificent ten-foot specimen standing tall and proud, and they mount it on the wall of the den. It is a hunting book. The author would like you to know it is a hunting book. He typed that with a completely straight face and no hesitation whatsoever. This is technically Brad Gosse's most sophisticated work, in that it has an actual plot, multiple named characters, and something loosely resembling a story arc. It is also, objectively, a picture book full of sentences no reasonable adult should read aloud in polite company. Both things are true at the same time. We are not proud of this. The book exists anyway. The deer on the cover looks directly into your soul and it knows what you are about to do with your credit card. This Book Is For You If... You heard the words Big Hunt and did not immediately think about deer hunting and you know it You want to give someone a gift that makes them briefly question your entire friendship You are the person in your group who always goes too far and you have made peace with that You need something cheaper than therapy that produces a comparable quantity of chaos This Book Is NOT For You If... You are a normal person with normal hobbies and a reasonable sense of what is appropriate You manage a homeowners association and have come to think of it as a calling You read the words shaft thick and long and genuinely felt absolutely nothing at all You have ever used the phrase this is not that kind of establishment in complete seriousness You are going to buy this, hate it, and leave a one-star review describing exactly what it is Perfect Occasions for This Book Bachelorette parties where the bride specifically deserves to be mildly mortified Actual hunting trips with the one person in the group who can genuinely take a joke White elephant exchanges where you want to be remembered for entirely the wrong reasons Retirement gifts for someone escaping a job they should have left a decade earlier Any occasion where you need a gift and poor decisions have led you directly to this page Reading aloud at Thanksgiving to the relative who always delivers grace at excessive length Look, Just Buy the Stupid Book A greeting card costs almost exactly the same as this. You will spend four minutes picking that card out. The person reads it in three seconds and it is in a landfill by Tuesday. This book will be read aloud to the room. Voices will happen. Someone will do Steve on all fours with genuine commitment and zero shame. The mounting scene will cause at least one person to physically leave the room. Lisa's line, I've never seen better, said real slow, will be quoted at completely inappropriate moments for months. We are not going to tell you this is high art. It is not high art. It is a picture book where adults go Big Hunt together and mount their prize on the wall of the den. Brad Gosse made this deliberately. He would do it again. He already did it again. There are more of these books. They keep happening. Buy this one, give it to someone you love, and let Brad absorb all of the blame. He has accepted this as his legacy and he seems fine with it somehow. https://bradgosse.com/products/the-big-hunt-signed-copy?variant=57967036465455 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/d3755d54ad89425c0421253afa9114c6.png?v=1779367902&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0H2H8TGVT 543543 44460103926063 The Cat That Shat... An Investigation Into Domestic Animal Behavior And Where, Specifically, It Happened This Time The cat that sat... and shat. There is a cat. There was a place the cat was not supposed to go, and the cat went there, and now there is a situation, and the situation requires documentation because the cat will not remember this conversation. The cat that shat has shat in the shoe. The cat that shat has shat in the plant. The locations are documented. The cat's awareness of the locations is not documented because the cat does not have awareness. The cat has a system. The system is: wherever seemed correct at the time. This book is the record of everywhere that seemed correct. This adult parody book is gross-out comedy about a subject that every cat owner has a story about and that no illustrated book in the cat genre has addressed with this level of specificity. The cat sat. The cat shat. The cat proceeded as if none of this had happened because the cat exists on a plane where the past is not a concept. The documentation is therefore the responsibility of the humans, and this book is the documentation, and the documentation is surprisingly extensive. This Book IS For: Cat owners who have had the specific discovery experience this book documents and needed a book to share at the vet Fans of rhyming gross-out humor that earns its laugh from committing to the premise through every single location Anyone who has cleaned up something they would rather not have been cleaning up and needed it acknowledged in illustrated form Gift-givers looking for a cat book that is honest about cats in a way that cat books rarely are This Book Is NOT For: Cat owners whose cats have never done this, which is a population size too small to constitute a meaningful market Readers who believe the word "shat" in a title indicates a quality level that exceeds the book's actual quality level People who are very attached to the dignity of cats as a concept and find this premise insulting to the species Anyone currently cleaning something and reading this description, who has enough context already Appropriate For: Gifts for cat owners... any cat owner, anywhere, who has a cat, because all of them have this story White elephant exchanges where the title gets read aloud and that's the whole moment right there Housewarming gifts for people who just adopted a cat and don't yet know what they've signed up for Gag gifts for the friend whose cat stories start with "you're not going to believe where I found it" Why Buy This The cat gift market is enormous. The cat content market is larger. Neither of those markets has produced a book called The Cat That Shat until this one, which is an oversight that the market has now corrected. The cat shat. The locations are documented. The investigation is complete. The cat is indifferent to the investigation. The investigation has been published anyway because someone decided it needed to be and they were right. Buy it for a cat owner. Buy it for someone who just got a cat and will laugh now and recognize it more specifically later. Buy it for yourself if you have a cat that has done this in a location you have not yet forgiven. The book will not address the specific location your cat chose. The book will confirm that your cat's choice was consistent with a pattern. That confirmation costs less than the item the cat chose. That's value. The cat shat. Now there's a book about it. https://bradgosse.com/products/the-cat-that-shat-signed-copy?variant=44460103926063 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08QRYXWBF.png?v=1675972140&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798582436638 B08QRYXWBF 543543 44460110446895 There Is No Farm: Kids Guide To Understanding Euthanasia... Buddy Is Not On A Farm. Buddy Is Somewhere Specific. Buddy did not go to a farm. Buddy is not running around on a big property with other dogs in conditions Buddy would have loved had Buddy been capable of going there. Buddy went somewhere specific, and this book explains where that somewhere is, what the process looked like, and why the farm was a kindness-shaped lie that you are now old enough to receive the truth version of. The truth version is illustrated with cartoon art and the measured, honest tone of a guide that has decided the farm story has done its job and the time for the farm story is over. This adult parody book is a children's guide to euthanasia that uses the pet experience to address what all the farm versions were protecting us from. It is dark and it is also funny in the way that only extremely honest things can be funny once you're old enough for the honesty. Buddy was loved. Buddy's condition was such that a decision was made. The decision was called something kind in front of children. This book calls it what it is. Buddy is not coming back. The farm was fiction. The guide provides the non-fiction. This Book IS For: Adults who were told the farm story as children and later received the update and had complicated feelings about the update Parents who have decided their children are ready for the honest version and want an illustrated guide to deliver it Fans of extremely dark humor that is simultaneously funny and accurate about something real and sad Gift-givers who want to acknowledge a pet loss situation with something more honest than a sympathy card This Book Is NOT For: Children who are still on the farm version and whose parents have decided they should stay there a while longer Readers who find the farm story appropriate at any age and believe the honest version is unnecessarily harsh Anyone currently navigating an active pet situation who doesn't have the emotional margin for this framing right now People who told the farm story and need it to remain unexamined for family harmony reasons Appropriate For: Pet loss gifts... more honest than a sympathy card and more useful than a "rainbow bridge" poem White elephant exchanges where someone in the group has recently received the adult update on the farm story Gag gifts for veterinary professionals who have the farm conversation regularly and need to laugh about it Anyone who is old enough to receive the honest version and young enough to remember that once they weren't Why Buy This The farm story has served millions of children across generations and costs nothing to tell. This book, which costs slightly more than nothing, provides the follow-up that the farm story was deferring. The follow-up is illustrated. The follow-up is honest about where Buddy went, what the word is for what happened to Buddy, and why the farm was a protective fiction rather than a geographic location. Buddy would have loved a farm. Buddy didn't go to one. The guide is here now. Buy it for someone who was told the farm story and would appreciate the illustrated update. Buy it for a veterinarian who has the real conversation repeatedly and needs a book that acknowledges both versions exist. Buy it for yourself, if you were told about a farm once, and have since known, and have held both stories simultaneously for long enough that the dark humor is what's left. Buddy was loved. There was no farm. The book explains the rest. https://bradgosse.com/products/there-is-no-farm-kids-guide-to-understanding-euthanasia-signed-copy?variant=44460110446895 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08JVJP39R.png?v=1675972218&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798689149028 B08JVJP39R 543543 44460111397167 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/things-you-should-know-at-this-stage-in-your-life-signed-copy?variant=44460111397167 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08JF5M9LY.png?v=1675972239&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798688812015 B08JF5M9LY 543543 44460115198255 Thirst Traps: Why Mom's Phone Is Always Blowing Up... A Social Media Phenomenon Documented In The Family Home Mom's phone is always blowing up. You've noticed. Mom has gotten very particular about her angles. Mom's ring light is now a household fixture. Mom's follower count has been going up and the notification sound has become the ambient soundtrack of the home. This book explains thirst traps: the art of the calculated photograph, the strategy of the caption, the specific intersection of lighting, angle, and audience that has made mom's phone the busiest object in the house at eleven o'clock at night. Mom is a content creator now. The content is documented here. This adult parody book addresses the social media phenomenon of the thirst trap through the lens of a child narrator whose mom has discovered this particular format and deployed it with the enthusiasm of someone who has found a new skill and is using it. Mom is receiving attention. Mom's phone confirms the attention multiple times per hour. The book explains the mechanism behind the attention, the technology that supports it, and why mom's ring light is staying on until after bedtime. This Book IS For: Adults who are familiar with the thirst trap as a format and find the mom-as-practitioner angle exactly right for a parody Children of a certain age who have noticed mom's relationship with her phone has a specific and evolving quality Fans of dark humor about social media culture that uses the family-home setting for maximum recognition value Gift-givers attending a bachelorette party or divorce party where the newly single mom energy is the theme This Book Is NOT For: Moms who have the ring light and the follower count and do not find this framing illuminating Social media professionals who feel the thirst trap deserves treatment as a legitimate content strategy rather than parody Readers who need the mom character to be doing something the family approves of uniformly Anyone whose mom's ring light situation is too new and too real for the distance required to find it funny Appropriate For: Bachelorette parties and divorce parties where newly active social media behavior is a discussed phenomenon White elephant exchanges where at least one person in the group has a mom, which is everyone Gag gifts for anyone whose mom's phone activity has generated more conversation than her actual conversations Mother's Day, if you know her well enough, and if she has the ring light, and if you have confirmed the relationship is solid Why Buy This The ring light is a household object that generates a specific question when it appears in a parent's bedroom: what specifically is it for, and who is it for, and what is happening on the platform receiving the content it produces. This book answers those questions in illustrated cartoon form with the earnest educational tone of a child narrator who has done research and arrived at conclusions. The conclusions are accurate. The phone keeps blowing up. The conclusions are the book. Buy it for someone who has asked why mom's phone is always blowing up and received an unsatisfying answer. Buy it for a mom who has the ring light and can laugh about it. Buy it because thirst traps are a cultural phenomenon of significant scale and this is the first illustrated guide to them that uses the family home as the setting. Mom figured something out. The notifications confirm it. The book explains the mechanism. The ring light remains on. https://bradgosse.com/products/thirst-traps-why-moms-phone-is-always-blowing-up-signed-copy?variant=44460115198255 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HTL1H45.png?v=1675972323&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798686025097 B08HTL1H45 543543 44460110676271 Triggered: Kids Guide To Modern Day Cancel Culture... Everything Is Fine And Nothing Is Safe And Here's What To Do You said the wrong thing. Or someone decided you said the wrong thing, which in the current landscape amounts to the same thing for the purposes of what happens next. This book guides you through the contemporary process: the initial post, the pile-on, the screenshot, the apology, the second pile-on about the first apology not being sufficient, and the various stages of online accountability that conclude either in cancellation or in a news cycle moving on, which is the closest thing to forgiveness currently available. The guide is practical. The content is familiar to anyone with a social media account and a posting history longer than two years. This adult parody book is a satire of cancel culture and internet outrage that doesn't pick a political side so much as document the mechanics of a process that operates with remarkable consistency regardless of which direction it's pointed. The trigger event is documented. The response ecosystem is documented. The apology formats are documented. The outcomes are documented. This is a field guide to a cultural phenomenon that shows no signs of simplifying itself and that needed an illustrated cartoon guide considerably earlier than it received one. This Book IS For: Adults who have watched the cancel culture process unfold enough times to recognize all the stages in the book Fans of satire that documents a cultural mechanism without needing to validate or condemn it to be funny about it Anyone who has drafted an apology, considered the reception, and revised the apology based on anticipated response Gift-givers who want to give something that makes a specific comment about a specific cultural moment This Book Is NOT For: People who find this subject too politically loaded to be satirized regardless of the tonal approach Readers who believe cancel culture is either entirely appropriate or entirely unfair and need the book to agree with their position Anyone whose personal cancel situation is too recent to have gained any comedic altitude yet People who have written multiple apology threads and still feel tender about the reception of each one Appropriate For: Gag gifts for anyone who works in social media management and has the process memorized from the professional side White elephant exchanges among people who have strong opinions about online culture and can laugh at those opinions Gifts for anyone whose job involves a public-facing persona and who has considered the risk management dimension of posting Anyone who has been chronically online long enough to have witnessed at least one complete cancel arc from trigger to resolution Why Buy This The internet has produced no shortage of content about cancel culture: earnest defenses, earnest critiques, and a lot of takes that are themselves cancelled before they finish loading. This book produces none of those. It produces a guide. The guide covers the mechanics. The mechanics are consistent across political positions, platforms, and subject matters. The consistency is itself the joke. Everything is fine. Nothing is safe. The guide tells you what to do when fine ends. Buy it for someone who is online enough to recognize every stage of the process being documented. Buy it for someone who works in PR and has handled the real version of what this book describes. Buy it for anyone who has ever watched a pile-on develop in real time and noted that the stages were completely predictable and still impossible to stop. The trigger happened. The process began. The book has the rest. Everything is fine. https://bradgosse.com/products/triggered-kids-guide-to-modern-day-cancel-culture-signed-copy?variant=44460110676271 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08J21B69R.png?v=1675972224&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798686346246 B08J21B69R 543543 44460101468463 Uncle Bob Can't Wait To Show Me His Knob... A Dedicated Hobbyist Who Won't Stop Bringing It Up At Dinner Uncle Bob is so excited. Uncle Bob has been working on something. Uncle Bob's knob... the one he's been crafting in his workshop, with the specific pride of a man who has developed a woodworking hobby late in life and has found in knob-making a late-arriving passion that he discusses at every family gathering with the enthusiasm of someone who has finally found their thing. Uncle Bob made a knob. Uncle Bob made several knobs. Uncle Bob cannot wait to show you his knob. The dinner table has been informed of the knob. The knob is in the workshop. Uncle Bob is going to get it. This adult parody book is a celebration of the hobbyist uncle archetype... the man who found a late-life passion that takes up all available conversational space... and the specific woodworking hobby that allows every sentence about it to contain the word "knob" without any of those sentences technically being about anything other than woodworking. Uncle Bob is a woodworker. The book is about woodworking. The knob is a woodworking product. Everything is very clearly about woodworking. This Book IS For: Adults who have an uncle equivalent whose hobby has produced a vocabulary that requires careful management at family events Fans of double-meaning humor that commits completely to the innocent reading while making the second reading inescapable Anyone who has had a conversation about woodworking that kept landing somewhere the conversation wasn't supposed to go Gift-givers who want to give a book about a hobby uncle that earns its laugh from the first sentence of the description This Book Is NOT For: Actual woodworking enthusiasts who feel their craft is being used as a vehicle for humor they didn't consent to represent Uncles named Bob who are not woodworkers and feel this is unfair attribution Readers who need hobbyist content to remain in a register where "knob" means only one thing throughout Family gatherings where this book would end up in Uncle Bob's hands before the humor has been adequately explained Appropriate For: Family holiday exchanges among adults who are all aware of Uncle Bob's hobby and have been at the dinner table for the knob conversation White elephant exchanges where reading the title aloud is the most efficient possible gift-giving strategy Gag gifts for the woodworker in your life who has enough self-awareness to appreciate the phonetic situation they're in Anyone who has an uncle with a hobby that generates vocabulary that requires in-room management Why Buy This Uncle Bob's knob is exceptional. Uncle Bob made it himself. Uncle Bob would like you to see it, hold it, and understand the craftsmanship that went into it. The grain is good. The finish is smooth. Uncle Bob's knob is everything he hoped it would be when he started the woodworking hobby that has made knob-making the center of his creative life. The book documents all of this with the enthusiasm that Uncle Bob deserves and the phonetic situation that Uncle Bob is not aware of. Buy it for the family member who will understand immediately. Buy it for someone who has been at the dinner table when Uncle Bob discussed his knob. Buy it for a woodworker who has noticed that their hobby generates this specific conversational dynamic and has decided to lean into it. The knob is in the workshop. Uncle Bob is going to get it. He cannot wait to show you. That's the whole thing. The book is ready. The knob is ready. Uncle Bob has been ready since Tuesday. https://bradgosse.com/products/uncle-bob-cant-wait-to-show-me-his-knob-signed-copy?variant=44460101468463 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09NRBY4ZL.png?v=1675972102&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798786556767 B09NRBY4ZL 543543 44886911123759 Uncle Jeff's Island... A Private Retreat With A Guest List That Raises Some Questions Uncle Jeff has an island. Uncle Jeff likes to have his friends on the island. Uncle Jeff's island has things to do, people to see, and a specific reputation that has generated a significant amount of legal and journalistic attention that the book does not reference but that informs every single sentence of what "Uncle Jeff has an island" means to anyone reading this description. The island is real. The friends are real. The things that happen on the island have been documented in venues other than this book. This book documents them in illustrated cartoon form, with cartoon art, and with the specific restraint of someone who knows exactly what they're illustrating and is doing so carefully. This adult parody book is dark satire about power, wealth, and the specific uses to which private islands have been put by people with unlimited resources and flexible ethics. The island is the vehicle. Uncle Jeff is the vehicle's owner. The guest list is the subject. The book is the account. The account is darkly funny in the way that only things that are genuinely dark can be darkly funny at sufficient documentary distance. This Book IS For: Adults who have followed the relevant news coverage and recognize Uncle Jeff's island immediately and completely Fans of dark satire that takes real events and renders them in illustrated form without pretending the real events aren't what they are Anyone who has processed the island story through shock, anger, and arrived somewhere where illustrated dark humor is the remaining tool Gift-givers who want to acknowledge a specific and significant news story in a format that says: we all know what this is This Book Is NOT For: People who feel the subject matter is too serious and too harmful to be addressed through illustrated parody Readers who haven't followed the relevant coverage and would need significant briefing to understand the book's satirical target Anyone who believes the island was primarily a networking venue and that the coverage was disproportionate Legal professionals currently involved in the ongoing cases who read this description and had a specific reaction Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges among adults who are all aware of Uncle Jeff and have opinions about Uncle Jeff's island Gag gifts for anyone who has spent time consuming the journalism and needs a compressed illustrated version Any occasion where dark satire about power and its specific misuses is appropriate and the room is adult and informed True crime readers who have expanded their interests to include the specific documentary format of illustrated parody Why Buy This The Uncle Jeff story has been covered in documentaries, books, court filings, and journalism at a level of detail that has made the outline of the story universally known to anyone who has been paying attention. This book is the illustrated version. The illustrated version costs less than a documentary streaming subscription and can be shared around a table in a way that documentaries cannot. It is compact. It is specific. It does not pretend the island was for birdwatching. Uncle Jeff has an island. The island has a history. The history is illustrated here in cartoon form with the dark accuracy of satire that knows exactly what it's satirizing and has decided to say so in a format that fits in a gift bag. Buy it for someone who followed the story. Buy it for someone who needs the summary. The island awaits. Uncle Jeff is expecting people. The book explains who gets invited and why. It is not a comfortable read. It is an accurate one. https://bradgosse.com/products/uncle-jeffs-island?variant=44886911123759 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B0C1J4L5SP.png?v=1681494926&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798352186008 B0C1J4L5SP 543543 50840090083631 Brace yourself for the unapologetically absurd story you didn’t know you needed in your life. Wet Back: The Soggy Duck is here to soak your brain in questionable humor, drenched in wordplay, and marinated in bad life choices. This illustrated gag book is what happens when dark humor meets ducks who should really stop trying to make life work on their own terms. Meet Wet Back, the duck who has one tragic flaw: he’s not waterproof. That’s right—a duck that can’t resist drowning his dreams, ambitions, and self-esteem in every body of water he flaps his soggy wings toward. While other ducks glide gracefully across ponds and lakes, Wet Back bobs in and out of misery like your drunk uncle at a family barbecue. Wet Back’s life is a relentless downward spiral. He spends his days hustling spam calls for "Pond Management" under tables to make ends meet, all while being ruthlessly mocked by the flock. "Still dripping, Wet Back?" they jeer, feathers fluffed with superiority. Despite his impeccable Spanish—because, yes, this duck is bilingual—Wet Back can’t seem to catch a break, a date, or even a dry moment. Enter his only friend: a coyote in a raincoat. Because nothing says, “This duck’s life is a joke” like the companionship of a land predator who’s only slightly less tragic than he is. The coyote cheers Wet Back on, offering sage advice that amounts to little more than, “Life sucks, get used to it.” And boy, does Wet Back get used to it. The lady ducks, naturally, want nothing to do with him. Rumors swirl about Wet Back’s “genetics,” with accusations flying that his dripping habit might be contagious. The pond becomes a stage for his endless humiliation, from failed dates to his paycheck barely covering his pond rent. He works tirelessly, but his dreams are always one splash away from drowning in reality. If you’re thinking this story has a happy ending, clearly you’ve never read one of these books before. The moral of Wet Back’s journey is blunt, cruel, and absolutely hilarious: life will crush your dreams and probably drown you in the process. Wet Back is the epitome of "try and fail anyway," a walking metaphor for every bad decision and misplaced hope you've ever had. Perfect for fans of dark humor, people who enjoy laughing at life’s misfortunes, or anyone looking to ruin the mood at a white elephant exchange, Wet Back: The Soggy Duck will leave you questioning your sense of humor and maybe even your humanity. So laugh, cry, or just stare in stunned disbelief as Wet Back waddles through life with water and shame dripping down his face. Because in the end, you’re not buying a book. You’re buying the opportunity to send this mess to someone else and ruin their day. And isn’t that what gift-giving is really about? Go ahead. Dive in. Or don’t—Wet Back already did, and look how that turned out. https://bradgosse.com/products/wet-back-the-soggy-duck-signed-copy?variant=50840090083631 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0DRG4S3QF.png?v=1735398948&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0DRG4S3QF 543543 44460102615343 We're Not Camping: Mom And Dad Lied, We're Homeless... A Road Trip With An Undisclosed Destination The kids thought they were going camping. Mom and dad said "camping trip" and the kids believed "camping trip" because kids believe what they're told and parents say the thing that produces the least immediate distress on the road to the situation that requires the most eventual explanation. The tents are not camping tents. The location is not a campground. The experience is camping-adjacent in the sense that it involves sleeping outdoors, which is the one element the classification shares with the thing the kids were told they were doing. This book explains the rest of it with the gentle honesty of a guide that has decided the kids can handle the fuller picture now. This adult parody book uses the children's guide format to address a situation that a significant and growing number of families have navigated with varying degrees of advance notice. The camping trip framing is the protective layer the parents applied. The illustrated guide is the honest layer applied afterward. Both layers are present in this book, and the gap between them is funny in the specific way that dark truths delivered via cartoon art are funny: because the honesty is better than the fiction, and the fiction was kind, and both of those things are true at once. This Book IS For: Adults who have experienced a situation described to them as one thing that was actually another thing and have the humor of distance now Fans of dark comedy that addresses real economic experiences with honesty rather than pretending the experiences aren't real Anyone who has worked in housing services, social work, or any field where this specific situation is not unusual Gift-givers who want to acknowledge a difficult shared experience in a form that the recipient can laugh at rather than cry at This Book Is NOT For: People currently in the situation this book describes, for whom the dark humor has not yet developed the distance it needs Readers who feel housing instability should not be a vehicle for illustrated humor regardless of the target audience Anyone who has used the camping trip explanation with their own children and is not ready to see it documented Policy advocates who feel this subject requires structural solutions rather than satirical acknowledgment Appropriate For: Gag gifts for adults who grew up navigating housing instability and have arrived at the humor stage through their own timeline White elephant exchanges among people who are far enough from the experience to find it funny and close enough to find it true Gifts for social workers who have heard many versions of the camping trip explanation and could use a compressed illustrated version Anyone who finds the gap between the thing children are told and the thing that is actually happening to be a rich comedic vein Why Buy This The lie is kind. The lie is temporary. The lie is the thing you say when the truth is too large for the car ride. Parents tell it. Children believe it. The timeline between the lie and the truth is the whole of childhood in miniature, and this book covers that timeline with the dark humor that only distance from a real situation can produce. The camping trip was not a camping trip. The kids knew something. The kids are old enough now. Buy it for someone who went on a camping trip like this one. Buy it for someone whose work involves people who've told this story. Buy it for anyone who finds the humor of the protective lie worth documenting and laughing at. We're not camping. Mom and dad lied. The book says so with cartoon art. That's the most honest camping trip content available at this price. https://bradgosse.com/products/were-not-camping-mom-and-dad-lied-were-homeless-signed-copy?variant=44460102615343 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B084QH2GX2.png?v=1675972121&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798613572175 B084QH2GX2 543543 44460112773423 When Parents Go To Jail... Practical Information For A Situation That Nobody Planned For But Several People Created It was a surprise. Not necessarily in the way that "surprise" usually means, but in the timeline sense: you didn't know it was happening and then it was happening and now a parent is not at the dinner table and the explanation that has been provided varies by who in the family is providing it. This book addresses what happens when a parent goes to jail: the practical household implications, the explanations available at various age levels, and the specific range of "they're away for a while" framings that families deploy in the early stage before everyone agrees on what the accurate version is. This adult parody book handles a difficult family situation in the illustrated children's book format that has proven, across this series, to be the most honest available vehicle for situations that adult formats find difficult to address with both accuracy and humor. When parents go to jail, the household continues. The household has practical needs. The book addresses those needs with cartoon art and the resigned pragmatism of someone who has done the research on what happens next and produced a guide. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up in households where a parent's absence required explanation and find the dark humor of distance now available Fans of comedy that uses real, difficult experiences as material and finds the funny without losing the truth Social workers, family services professionals, and teachers who encounter this situation and need something for their perspective shelf Gift-givers who know the specific recipient for whom this book will be the most recognizable and cathartic gift available This Book Is NOT For: People currently in the early weeks of this situation in their own family for whom the humor requires more time to develop Readers who believe incarceration should not be addressed through illustrated parody regardless of the intent Anyone whose parent is currently incarcerated and who received this book without consenting to the specific genre Family members who prefer the "away for a while" framing and need it to remain unchallenged for the foreseeable future Appropriate For: Gag gifts for adults who have processed this experience long enough to find the illustrated version cathartic rather than painful White elephant exchanges among people close enough to each other that this recognition produces laugh rather than concern Gifts for anyone working in family services, youth counseling, or any field where this is a known situation Anyone who has had to explain where a parent was using the softest available framing and who is old enough now to find the gap funny Why Buy This The criminal justice system processes millions of parents annually. The children of those parents receive explanations of varying accuracy about where mom or dad has gone. This book provides the direct version that the varying explanations were approximating. It is more accurate than "away for a while." It is more accurate than a lot of the other framings that get deployed in this situation. Accuracy delivered via cartoon art at a price that doesn't require a payment plan is a service. Buy it for someone who grew up with this experience and has the distance to find it funny. Buy it for a professional who encounters the situation regularly and needs something to break the tension in their own processing. Buy it because the household continued when the parent left and the household continuing was its own kind of story that the book tells. When parents go to jail, someone else figures it out. The book documents the figuring out. The figuring out is the whole thing. https://bradgosse.com/products/when-parents-go-to-jail-signed-copy?variant=44460112773423 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08YS62SYM.png?v=1675972262&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798721897191 B08YS62SYM 543543 44460101730607 Why Daddy Hits Mommy: Kids Guide To Understanding Alcoholism... When The Problem Has A Name And The Name Has A Schedule It comes down to Dad drinking too much and too often. The correlation between the drinking schedule and the hitting schedule has been noted by the household and is documented in this book. The alcoholism has a name. The name has been placed on the cover because the children who grew up in households where this was a dynamic deserve a book that says directly what was happening instead of the versions they were given at the time. Daddy drinks. The drinking and the behavior are connected. The connection is illustrated. The connection has always been there for those inside the house to see. This adult parody book is dark humor about domestic violence and alcoholism, presented in the illustrated children's book format that makes the subject approachable rather than avoidable. The humor is in the honesty... the direct naming of what was happening in language that is clearer than what was offered in the house at the time. It is funny in the way that very dark things become funny at distance. The distance is what makes the book possible. The humor is what makes the distance bearable. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up in households where this pattern was present and who have processed it far enough to find the illustrated honesty useful Fans of dark comedy that doesn't flinch at real subject matter when the distance and the framing are handled carefully Anyone who received explanations as a child that required significant adult decoding to understand what was actually happening Gift-givers who know a specific person for whom this book will land as recognition rather than shock This Book Is NOT For: People currently inside the situation this book describes, for whom the humor is not yet available and should not be forced Readers who feel domestic violence should not appear in any humor context regardless of the framing or audience Anyone for whom this subject matter activates something that the distance required for comedy has not yet resolved Children... this book is adult parody and the subject matter requires adult perspective to process as intended Appropriate For: Gag gifts for adults who have been in therapy long enough to find the illustrated version less heavy than the original Support group contexts where dark humor about alcoholism and its impacts is part of the shared language White elephant exchanges among close friends where the humor of recognition has been established as a shared mode Gifts for anyone who can laugh at the thing they survived and finds that laughter part of their survival Why Buy This Recovery humor exists because it has to. The people who went through something real and came out the other side with enough distance to find it funny have always found things that weren't made for them and made do. This book was made for them. It's the illustrated version of the thing that happened. It names it. It puts it in cartoon art. The cartoon art is charming in the way that the situation it depicts was not. The gap between the charming and the depicted is the whole thing. Buy it for someone who has done the work of processing this in their own time and has arrived at the dark humor stage without being pushed. Buy it for someone who would know exactly who to give it to even if they don't give it to themselves. The alcoholism has a name. The schedule was real. The book is the honest version of what the household contained. The illustrated cartoon art makes it something you can laugh at while knowing it was real. That combination is rare and worth the price of the book. https://bradgosse.com/products/why-daddy-hits-mommy-kids-guide-to-understanding-alcoholism-signed-copy?variant=44460101730607 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/1658902556.png?v=1675972105&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9781658902557 1658902556 543543 44460113527087 Why Grandpa Lives In The Garage... A Family Living Situation With Two Buckets And No Good Explanation For Dinner Guests When gran died, grandad couldn't cope. The bills piled up. The dope helped for a while and then the dope was just another bill. The bank took the house. There was nowhere to go, and then there was the garage, which was cleaned out before it started to snow, and now grandpa is in there with a tent and two buckets... one for poo, one for pee... and he can't come in the house unless it's an emergency. He's independent out there. He weeps sometimes. This is the family situation. This book explains it to the children in the household who have questions about the tent and the buckets that the adults have been answering with insufficient specificity. This adult parody book is dark humor about elder care, addiction, financial collapse, and the specific domestic arrangement that results when all three combine in the same family simultaneously. It is illustrated with cartoon art and the matter-of-fact honesty of a guide that has decided the children deserve to know why grandpa lives in the garage and what the bucket situation means. The book does not editorialize. The book simply documents. The documentation is both darkly funny and more recognizable than most people will be comfortable admitting. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up in extended family situations that required explanations the official explanations never quite covered Fans of dark comedy that finds the specific funny in situations that are simultaneously sad and logistically absurd Anyone whose family has a garage situation, a driveway situation, a basement situation... any arrangement that came with buckets or their equivalent Gift-givers who want a funny book that also functions as a recognition event for the recipient in all the right ways This Book Is NOT For: People whose grandpa lives in the garage and who are currently managing the bucket rotation and have not yet reached the humor stage Elder care advocates who feel the housing crisis for seniors should be addressed through policy rather than illustrated parody Readers who need every family situation to resolve with a lesson about togetherness and a warmer domestic arrangement Grandpas who live in garages and will be shown this book by a family member who thought it was too specific to resist Appropriate For: Gag gifts for anyone whose family situation includes an outbuilding housing a relative and who has the dark humor to appreciate the documentation White elephant exchanges where you want to give a funny book that makes at least one person in the room go very quiet and then very loud Holiday gatherings where grandpa is already the elephant in the room and the book makes the elephant visible in a way that relieves rather than creates tension Gifts for social workers, addiction counselors, or anyone whose professional life includes the garage-adjacent family arrangement Why Buy This The family garage has long served as the overflow solution for domestic situations that don't fit the main house. This book documents the version where the person is grandpa, the reasons are layered, and the children have been asking questions the adults have been answering with insufficient specificity. The book provides the most specific language. The cartoon art provides the illustrations. Both are helpful. Buy it for someone who has explained a family arrangement using every euphemism available. Buy it for someone who will read the two-bucket system and recognize it as a solution their own family used. Recognition... your specific experience seen, illustrated, made briefly funny... is worth more than a gift card. Grandpa is independent out there. He has the buckets. He has the tent. He has this book. https://bradgosse.com/products/why-grandpa-lives-in-the-garage-signed-copy?variant=44460113527087 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B09FCHQBJR.png?v=1675972279&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798469696100 B09FCHQBJR 543543 44460108742959 Why Mommy Hits Daddy: Kids Guide To Understanding Alcoholism... Equal Opportunity Documentation Daddy drinks too much. That's his thing. Mommy has her own thing, which is the hitting, and the hitting has a source, and the source is the drinking... mommy's, in this case, because the problem travels in multiple directions and this book documents the other direction from its companion volume. The dynamic is the same. The gender of the drinker has changed. The guide is equally honest about both versions because the household experience of both versions deserves equal documentation. Mommy drinks. The correlation between the drinking and the hitting has been documented. The cartoon art is equally cheerful in both volumes. The subject matter is equally serious in both. This adult parody book is the companion to Why Daddy Hits Mommy, completing a two-volume educational set about alcoholism and its household expressions that no school curriculum has produced in illustrated form. The series establishes equal coverage. The subject matter is real in both directions. The dark humor operates the same way in both volumes: through the gap between the cheerful format and the honest subject matter, and through the recognition that names the thing while the illustrated art holds the distance. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up with a mommy-drinks version of this situation and find the parallel documentation validating Fans of dark comedy that treats both versions of a dynamic with equal honesty rather than defaulting to one direction Anyone who believes the illustrated parody format should be as egalitarian in its documentation as the underlying situation was Collectors of the companion volume who want both sides of the story in illustrated form on their shelf This Book Is NOT For: People who feel that equal documentation is less important than documenting the statistically more common version Readers who need this specific volume to be different in tone or approach from the companion, which it isn't Anyone for whom this subject matter is currently active and the humor is not yet part of their available toolkit People who read one volume and found it sufficient and are confident the other direction is covered by implication Appropriate For: Gifts paired with the companion volume for the complete household alcoholism documentation experience White elephant exchanges among people who have encountered both volumes and appreciate the completeness of the set Gag gifts for anyone whose situation was specifically this direction and who appreciates the specific coverage Support contexts where dark humor about alcoholism is part of the shared language and equal representation matters Why Buy This The companion volume documented one direction. This volume documents the other. The series is now complete. The completeness matters because the experience being documented exists in both directions, and illustrated parody that only covers one version would be documenting half a reality with the confidence of a full one. This book is the other half. The alcoholism has moved. The guide has followed. The cartoon art remains equally cheerful. The subject matter remains equally real. Buy it with the companion. Buy it alone if this is the specific direction that applies. Buy it for someone who grew up with the mommy-drinks version and has never seen their specific experience documented in illustrated form. The series covers both. The coverage is equal. The distance required for the humor is the same. Both versions happened in real households. Both versions are now in illustrated cartoon books. That is, at minimum, more documentation than both versions had before these books existed. https://bradgosse.com/products/why-mommy-hits-daddy-kids-guide-to-understanding-alcoholism-signed-copy?variant=44460108742959 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08HRZN2CX.png?v=1675972196&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798684557699 B08HRZN2CX 543543 50239981060399 Free worldwide shipping! Get your autographed copy of this book today. I have a limited number of these in stock. Once they're gone, they won't show up here anymore. If you're just looking to grab a copy of the book on Amazon here are the links. United StatesCanadaUKAustraliaGermanyFranceSpainItalyJapan You can choose an optional message to go with your signature. Thanks for your support. Brad https://bradgosse.com/products/york-hunt-breeds-photobook-signed-copy?variant=50239981060399 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/files/B0CCXPGD3W.png?v=1720546003&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD B0CCXPGD3W 543543 44460107170095 You People: Acceptable Ways To Use That Phrase... A Context Guide For A Phrase That Has Too Many Contexts "You people" is a phrase that has context. The context determines whether the phrase is an innocuous collective address or a loaded two-word statement that causes everyone in the room to go very still very quickly. The difference is tone, situation, speaker, audience, and about fifteen other variables that this guide documents with the cheerful comprehensiveness of an illustrated phrase-usage manual. Some uses are fine. Some uses are not fine. The guide covers both categories. It also covers the grey area, which is the most populated category and the one that generates the most specific and memorable reactions. This adult parody book is a context guide for a phrase that has produced more silence, tension, and rapid conversational topic changes than almost any other two-word combination in English. The phrase is in the title. The acceptable uses are in the book. The unacceptable uses are also in the book because the guide is comprehensive and comprehensiveness requires coverage of the full range. By the end, you will know exactly when to use the phrase and when to use literally any other collection of words. This Book IS For: Adults who have been in a room when this phrase was deployed and watched the specific reaction it produced with perfect accuracy Fans of humor that takes a linguistically charged phrase and maps its full contextual range as a comedic exercise Anyone who has used this phrase and received a reaction they didn't fully anticipate and want to understand retrospectively Gift-givers who want to give something that functions as both comedy and genuinely useful phrase-usage context This Book Is NOT For: People who believe the phrase has no acceptable uses and would prefer the guide not exist in any format Anyone who uses the phrase regularly and has never encountered a reaction worth examining Readers who need their illustrated guides to language to cover only expressions with fully settled contextual meanings Corporate diversity training departments who feel this treatment is insufficiently earnest for their curriculum Appropriate For: White elephant exchanges among groups where the phrase has actually come up in someone's recent experience Gag gifts for anyone whose conversational history includes a "you people" moment they've been describing to others since Gifts for linguistics enthusiasts who appreciate that two words can do this much contextual work Anyone who works in an environment where language and its reception are ongoing topics of conversation Why Buy This Two words. Fifteen possible contexts. One guide that covers all of them. The guide is illustrated. The illustration is cheerful. The contextual range the guide covers is not entirely cheerful but the illustration is doing its best. That gap... between how the guide looks and what the guide covers... is the same gap that the phrase itself creates when deployed in certain directions, and the book has understood this about itself and leaned into it completely. Buy it for someone who has heard the phrase and had the reaction. Buy it for someone who used the phrase and received the reaction and is still processing what happened. Buy it for anyone who finds the specific social weight that two words can carry to be worthy of illustrated documentation and dark humor. You people will know who you are when you read this description. That was intentional. The guide awaits. https://bradgosse.com/products/you-people-acceptable-ways-to-use-that-phrase-signed-copy?variant=44460107170095 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08K4K2Z94.png?v=1675972175&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798690802561 B08K4K2Z94 543543 44460112937263 Your Life Is A Lie: Your Parents Created A False Reality... A Disclosure Statement That Arrived Several Decades Late Santa Claus is not real. The Tooth Fairy was mom. The goldfish that "went to live at the aquarium" went somewhere else. You were not the smartest child who ever existed. These are the revelations this book delivers with the systematic efficiency of a disclosure document that should have been provided earlier but has been compiled now, in illustrated cartoon form, for everyone who received a childhood built on fictions that adults agreed were kinder than the truth. Your parents lied to you. The lies were extensive. The lies were also, in most cases, kind. This book documents all of them anyway. This adult parody book is an audit of the convenient childhood fictions that form the foundation of most people's early years and that collapse, one by one, through late childhood and adolescence into the realization that adults maintain an elaborate alternative reality for children until they are old enough to handle the version everyone else has been living in. The fictions are documented. The reality that replaced them is noted. The comparison is funny. The comparison is also everything. This Book IS For: Adults who grew up to discover that their childhood was built on a series of fictions they were not consulted about Fans of humor that is funny because it's accurate and accurate because it documents something universal Anyone who has been in the middle of a normal adult moment and suddenly understood what their parents were actually doing the whole time Gift-givers who want to hand someone a complete audit of the false reality they were raised in This Book Is NOT For: People who still believe some of the items on this list and are not ready for the audit Parents who have constructed an elaborate false reality for their children and find this disclosure premature Readers who believe the childhood fictions are more valuable than truth and should be maintained indefinitely Children... this is their future reading material, and it will make more sense after several more years of information Appropriate For: Milestone birthdays... especially the ones where the accumulation of disclosed fictions has reached a meaningful total White elephant exchanges among adults who have compared notes on their respective childhood false realities Graduation gifts for people entering the real world who might appreciate a complete inventory of what they're leaving behind Gag gifts for the friend who recently discovered something their parents did that required a significant recontextualization Why Buy This Childhood costs parents an enormous amount of effort in maintenance of the alternative reality. The tooth fairy logistics alone represent a significant operational commitment over multiple years. This book represents the accounting that was never provided: a clear list of what was real and what was managed, delivered in the same illustrated children's book format that delivered several of the original fictions. The format choice is intentional. The list is comprehensive. The revelations land harder because the format is so cheerful. Your life is a lie. Most of the lie was kindness. Some of it was convenience. A little of it was avoidance. The book covers all three categories and the illustrations are genuinely charming despite the subject matter, which is appropriate because the fictions themselves were charming, and the charm was the whole point, and this book acknowledges the charm while also acknowledging that it was a charm applied to something that wasn't true. That's the gift. Buy it. Your parents made you something. This book audits what. https://bradgosse.com/products/your-life-is-a-lie-your-parents-created-a-false-reality-signed-copy?variant=44460112937263 https://bradgosse.com/cdn/shop/products/B08KQDYLQF.png?v=1675972265&width=1024 Brad Gosse new in stock 29.00 USD 9798694122955 B08KQDYLQF 543543 50239509233967 Your Mom Is Sharyn Cox... A Character Study In What A Name Can Do To A Sentence Your mom is Sharyn Cox. Your mom is Sharyn Cox, and the book would like to introduce her. Sharyn Cox has been many things over the course of her life, and the book covers her biography, her interests, and the situations she has found herself in over the course of a life lived fully as a person whose name is Sharyn Cox. Every sentence in this book contains the name Sharyn Cox in a context that is entirely about Sharyn Cox as a person with a biography and interests and situations. The name is on the cover. You've already had the reaction. The book delivers twenty pages of that reaction in illustrated form, with complete commitment to the name and the person who has it. This adult parody book is the logical conclusion of a specific tradition in this series: the name that contains the joke, the book that takes the name seriously for twenty pages, and the reader who processes the name and then processes it again on every subsequent page. Sharyn Cox is your mom. The book introduces her. Everything that follows from that introduction follows from the name, which told you everything before the cover was opened, and the book confirms it with illustrated cheerfulness and zero acknowledgment of why "Sharyn Cox" is funny. It just is. It will always be. This Book IS For: Adults who processed "Sharyn Cox" and then processed it again and then looked for the book based on that processing Fans of the name-joke tradition who have appreciated the Mike series and recognize this as a natural extension Anyone who wants to say "your mom is Sharyn Cox" to someone and have an illustrated book to back the claim up Gift-givers who want to hand someone a book whose cover generates the complete comedic reaction before it's opened This Book Is NOT For: People named Sharyn Cox whose experience of this name is well-documented in their own biography already Readers who need their name-based humor to be less specific than "Sharyn Cox" in the mom context Anyone whose mom is actually named Sharyn Cox and who will now need to make a decision about this book People who heard "Sharyn Cox" and experienced nothing, which is not possible but this category exists for completeness Appropriate For: Mother's Day... the most specific Mother's Day gift available for the recipient who has the right sense of humor White elephant exchanges where reading "your mom is Sharyn Cox" to the room is the entire gift-giving experience Bachelorette parties where your mom is Sharyn Cox is content that fits the evening's existing tonal range Gag gifts for anyone who will immediately understand why the name and the relationship and the sentence are this funny Why Buy This Your mom is Sharyn Cox. The book confirms it. The confirmation is illustrated across twenty pages of content about Sharyn Cox... her biography, her interests, her situations... delivered with the complete seriousness of an illustrated documentary about a person named Sharyn Cox. The seriousness is the whole thing. The name is the other whole thing. Both whole things are on the cover. Everything else follows from both whole things being on the cover simultaneously. Buy it for Mother's Day. Buy it for someone who has heard "your mom" jokes their entire life and needs the illustrated upgrade. Buy it for someone who will read the cover, process the name, process the relationship implied by "your mom," and then look at you with the specific expression that confirms you chose correctly. That expression is the gift. The book is the physical object the expression requires. Your mom is Sharyn Cox. She's been waiting for the introduction. 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