Philosophers, bugs, and bears! Horses, cats, and teachers of English! These are just a few of the hilarious inhabitants populating Dicus's The King's Highway. The King's Highway is a stretch of road in south Brooklyn that, as Dicus imagines it, runs out of the borough in both directions until it has ringed around the globe, traveling through every conceivable life. Travel this road long enough and the extraordinary may become absurd, the absurd extraordinary. Maybe this says something profound about humanity? Or, perhaps, it's a little tragic? Whatever the case, in The King's Highway, cartoonist-philosopher Dicus notes with a scrupulous gaze, wry wit, a touch of empathy, and a whole lot of honesty just where he has been and what he has seen on his journeys. Here is a cartoonist who expected a road lined with royalty. Instead, he has confronted the oddities and peculiarities existing right next to us all along The King's Highway.

Author Tour and Campaign Outreach:

- In Brooklyn - Community Bookstore; Greenlight Bookstore; Books Are Magic; and Desert Island Books

- Legend Comics and Coffee in Omaha, Nebraska

- Full Circle Bookstore in Oklahoma City

- In Chicago - Quimby's; Third Coast Comics; First Aid Comics; and Challengers

Signings in Brooklyn, Chicago, and Reno

Online and Social Media Campaign: Pitch reviews to National Cartoonists Society; The Center for Cartoon Studies; Comixology; Humor Times; small press expos; book conventions, and comics conventions; college-alumni magazines University of Chicago Magazine, Silver and Blue Magazine, Old North Magazine as well as Queens College and NYU School of Professional Study's Center for Applied Liberal Arts

Independent Bookstore Campaign

Social Media Campaign on Baobab Press, Reno's Sundance Books and Music, and author's websites, Facebook pages, and Instagram accounts

Digital Galleys available

National Review Campaign

Excerpts in The Southampton Review

Exemplary work in Narrative Magazine

About the Author
Dicus grew up in Nevada, but he's lived in Chicago, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and New York, where he currently lives with his wife and two kids. His kids are actually cats. In case that makes you sad, one of the cats' names is Dennis, and Dennis doesn't know how to meow. Dicus is a professor of books nobody reads, but it took him decades to learn how to spell medieval.


Book Information
ISBN 9781936097265
Author Dicus
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Baobab Press
Publisher Cameron & Company Inc