Hating Work And Working With Pricks

Modern Toss is our favourite British cartoon by miles. It’s as if Johnny Ryan’s strips have been transplanted into a jobcentre in Slough.

Created by Jon Link and Mick Bunnage, two guys who used to be at

in the days when it wasn’t the most embarrassing magazine in the world, Modern Toss is adept at making short, bitter fuck-yous to contemporary society that also make us LOL pretty much every time.

For this issue they did a collection of new strips, styled a “fashion story” and also deigned to talk to us on the phone for a few minutes.

Vice: Your strips are often based in the office. Whose side are you on—the pissed-off worker or the pissed-off boss?

Jon Link:

When did this traumatic exposure to shit working life occur?

Finchley Gazette

I guess that’s why the comics are successful—everyone knows what it’s like to hate work and work with pricks.

Did you get much grief when you first started?

These days you have a Channel 4 show and books and so on. Were you surprised by how quickly things took off?

Anything exciting on the way?

The book

is out now published by Modern Toss Ltd.