An attempted comedy in a very British style, this book hangs on the setup of a failed book tour overlapping with a string of murders. The humour fell flat for me, but I'm sure others will see the appeal.

Definitely a different story than I expected. Not quite my cup of tea, but others may appreciate it.

As an author travel from seedy hotel to seedier hotel, and from shabby bookstore to shabbier bookstore in order to promote his new book, he gets caught up in a murder investigation. The line drawings and lightly featured characters add to a sense of unreality. The main character acts as if he is in a dream over which he has very little control, and allows himself to be blown from scene to scene like newspaper caught in the wind.

This graphic novel starts out rather light but quickly goes dark as your main character goes off on his book tour and is quickly being suspected for a murder spree that is taking place.
For most of the story you are also feeling just so terrible for your main character as he is treated so terribly by everyone around him but then you become frustrated by him at the same time because he just seems to take it.
It is hard to review this graphic novel without giving too much away but I would recommend this title to others.

Weird, dark, and confusing. It was compelling to a certain degree, but the conclusion was so bleak and futile it erased any pleasure reading the book might have offered.

A lovely book about the absurdity of life, writing, publishing and the legal system. The Book Tour takes the reader through a writer's existential journey and the murder mystery that he is roped into against his will. The elements of absurdity and miscommunication in this novel are bolstered by the deadpan delivery, reminiscent of Bartleby. Definitely recommend!

A wonderfully surreal dark comedy with a fun and mysterious twist, written and illustrated by a master storyteller.

The Book Tour by Andi Watson is a weird, surrealist, frustrating, humorous trip with the simplest premise: an author hast the worst luck ever during his book tour. And then we have mistery, empty book stores, a murderer, a stolen suitcase, steak (well done), endless gag-like conversations... And a story that is better to discover by yourself as it unfolds and leaves you surprised page after page after page.

It is very difficult to say anything else without spoiling 'the game', so instead let me describe the main character, whose point of view will be the only help along the way. This poor author is simply miserable. He feels alienated, almost invisible. There are a lot of panels without conversations, and they almost feel voiceless, the same as the author. He doesn't even change his expressiond thorought the book., which can make him kind of frustrating at times. The book is also flooded with peculiar characters who appear and dissappear but make just the perfect moment in a sea of slow, longing, chaos.

To sum up, it is a book I would recommend, but that I'd have a hard time deciding who to recomment it to. I'd say is for the brave, for the ones who want a weird trip and don't mind feeling disoriented. For the ones who are looking for something out of the ordinary and understand they need to work for it. I hope we are more than a few.

Fretwell is embarking on a book tour of his latest book. From the beginning, nothing really goes as planned, and eventually he is accused being a serial killer being called The Suitcase Killer. Soon all he has left is his books.

An author is on a book tour in a city away from home where mysterious murders are taking place when he finds himself a prime suspect for the heinous crimes. We, like the author, feel out of place and a little confused as the city is not introduced from a bird's eye view but from street level. We get lost and find ourselves meeting new faces that are rarely comforting. Add a serial killer plot and it's ripe to be a quietly suspenseful Hitchcock experience.

My only gripe with the book, which ended up slowing my pace in reading and interest, was the lack of nuance between panels. The faces became repetitive and a droning sameness set into my rhythm of reading the images as I read the text that had me closing my eyes briefly to refresh them. The illustrations themselves are were well composed and flowed with the story. I like the nuance of each bookstore and owner, no two alike. I believe that Watson does illustrations with color and gradient shading, so maybe the final version will look different.

What a delightfully odd story. Dark, weird, disjointed, confusing yet very entertaining. You can feel the charcters disappointment, confusion and panic building throughout the story. I am excited to see the completed graphic novel when it arrives in store. This is not going to be for everyone but for those weird readers (like myself) this is a fun, twisted little gem.

Thank you to IDW publishing and Netgalley for the digital ARC.

This is a fun read, A author leaves to go on tour and is plagued when he begins to suffer a sort of mental break due to low turnout to his signings, unexpected changes to his routine, and the unfortunate disappearance of a store clerk for whom he is that last person she was seen with. It felt like a old mistaken person movie from Peter Sellers where a question is asked but is always not being answered but without the necessary context to not get you into trouble. A rather enjoyable light read.