The Underground Sketchbook
Published by Diogenes as Tomi Ungerer's Geheimes Skizzenbuch
Original Title:

Tomi Ungerer’s famous and infamous graphic masterpiece.

A visual satirical critique of society.

Tomi Ungerer is at the apex of his graphic art in these pages. His deceptively simple sketches, some of them done only in black ink, are an abyss of human desires. Satirically exaggerated to the point of agony, full of vicious wit and absurd ideas, they hit the reader hard with their intelligence and clear-sightedness.

Art, Cartoon, Photography
160 pages
1968

978-3-257-99905-1
Tomi
Ungerer

Tomi Ungerer (1931 — 2019) began his unstoppable career as an illustrator, childrenʼs book author and artist in New York. He published more than 140 books for adults and children, and created posters, sculptures and films. His hometown, Strasbourg, dedicated a museum to him even during his lifetime. His picture books, such as The Three Robbers and Moon Man, are modern classics.

Photo: © Gaëtan Bally / Keystone

Quotes

Luca Raffaelli
Il Venerdi di Repubblica, Rome

»It was essential for Ungerer to get to the fundamentals, without hesitation, without glossing anything over.«