There doesn’t seem to be a funny side

Published by: New Dimension
Year: 2025

A book with a black cover featuring dark blue design, purple text on a black strip stating "Lew Currie," with the title "There Doesn't Seem to Be a Funny Side" and the ISBN 9781739352597.
Side-by-side illustrations: one in purple outline style showing a person at a urinal; the other in coloured style showing a man standing at a urinal, surrounded by posters and graffiti.
A crowded subway station with diverse passengers boarding and getting off a train, and a man in a yellow coat checking his watch.
A person working at a computer with a clock on the wall, and a person walking in the background.
Colorful illustration of multiple small office cubicles with various people working on computers, reading, talking, or walking around.
A colorful watercolor illustration of a city street at night, featuring a person walking past shops, a cherry sign, and streetlights.
A cartoon man holding an umbrella stands near a magazine stand, in a scene with graffiti and trash.

There Doesn't Seem to Be a Funny Side is a bleakly funny, quietly desperate collection of drawings by Lew Currie. With scratchy, immediate linework and a tone that swings between deadpan and disillusioned, the publication captures the worn-out absurdity of contemporary life. Faces blur into boredom, timelines melt into sleepless nights, and every page feels like a punchline delivered too late.

Currie's illustrations mine the everyday for its quiet humiliations and surreal detours. Technology, masculinity, therapy-speak, flatshares, phones, pubs, and existential dread all take turns on the page. These are images that are both self-effacing and emotionally exacting.

This is a publication for anyone who's ever tried to laugh something off and found there wasn't a funny side after all.

New Dimension, 2025