Killing is Fun

British newspaper The Guardian featured Icelandic comic author Hugleikur Dagsson in its weekend edition. A three-page interview illustrated with Dagsson's ironic and morbid comics was titled " I like killing" and quoted him saying things like " I love killing and vomiting in cartoons." The journalist adds that few things are sacred to the young Dagsson, whose "Avoid Us" is about to published in Britain.

The Guardian did not publish a photograph of Dagsson which he, in a Fréttablaðið interview said he is happy with." They were intending to do a photo shoot but somehow it fell through. That's a stroke of luck as I have a great problem with my appearance, I'm so ugly that this is just a plus."

Avoid Us has sparked a dicussion thread on amazon.com where readers either love Dagsson's dark humour or find them outrageous and over the top. Cartoonist Alan Moore recently praised Dagsson and called him " Very very insane and very very funny."