The lyrical yet confronting story of a prisoner in a WWII concentration camp who has to keep the commandant laughing in order to survive.
Evoking themes from The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Fedler is a legendary political cartoonist who's been working on this story for more than 30 years.
"Gagman is a daring and uncompromising work, both allegory and achingly real—a confronting, haunting, and disturbing descent into hell, drawing on word and image to create a world in which to remain sane one must go mad. Dov Fedler totally inhabits his protagonist, and pushes his craft and his imagination to the limits to expose the horrors of Nazism, and to explore the redemptive power of art, humanity and humour." - Arnold Zable
"Dov Fedler, in Gagman, has plunged the reader into a crazy world where the Holocaust collides with Superman and Nietzche and the result is a virtuosic graphic and written allegory. It is a very original take on a highly contested history - who can tell the story of the Holocaust? Through a pastiche of Talmudic scholarship and confronting black humour, Gagman is a way of looking into the abyss. A 21st century Scheherazade, a tale for our times." - Sydney Jewish Museum
"Brilliant." - Professor Konrad Kwiet, resident historian, Sydney Jewish Museum
"Gagman is a searing and brilliant book which does more to expose the horrors of the Nazis than any book since Eli Wiesel's Night." - Alan Gold
"Gagman is an extraordinary piece of work - strange and haunting and uniquely itself." - John Maytham (South Africa)
