So there are depictions of such things as paws being used as pencil holders (and, relatedly, a cat pencil sharpener (guess where the pencil goes); cats as ice skates; cats as oven mitts; cats as golf clubs; and the list goes on and on, resulting for me in LOL and grimace, sometimes at the same time. American Opinion stated that those who read the book should be "prepared to be disgusted or appalled from time to time". Its success was considered part of a larger " cat craze" in popular culture, which included the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield, and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. The book was an instant and enduring success, eventually selling more than two million copies and being published in 20 countries.

In 1985 he married Linda Marshall, and moved to the Jacobean Great Addington Manor near Kettering in Northamptonshire.

the bestselling author of 101 Uses for a Dead Cat now turns his wicked black humor to a day in the life of the Sludge family in the first-ever pop-up book to bring his hilarious characters to life. Takže pokud přistoupíte na ten trošku morbidní koncept, tak se u řady kreseb opravdu pobavíte, někdy se nebudete stačit divit, kam na to ten autor chodí a občas pokrčíte rameny s hláškou "a co jako. The book includes some wickedly ingenious and surrealist ideas for putting a dead cat to good use, whether decorative, functional or on the sports field. In 2001, to mark the 20th anniversary of the first book, Methuen published Complete Uses of a Dead Cat (2001), incorporating all three volumes.

Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. In 2006, a 25th anniversary edition of A Hundred and One Uses of a Dead Cat was published with a new foreword. The book was promoted with the tag line, "Since time immemorial mankind has been plagued by the question, 'What do you do with a dead cat?Prý tohle není knížka pro majitele koček - no nevím, kočku doma máme (byť takovou polodivokou, co celé noci trajdá po venku a nosí před domovní dveře baterie myší), ale já se tedy královsky pobavila. In London, he attended Preston Manor County Grammar School, Wembley, before studying graphics at West Sussex College of Art and Design in Worthing (1965–68). First published in the UK in 1981 as A Hundred and One Uses for a Dead Cat, [1] the collection was eventually republished in 20 countries and sold over 2 million copies. In all he published more than 20 collections of drawings, including Odd Visions and Bizarre Sights (1983), Uniformity (1986), A Bruise of Bouncers (1987), Battered Lawyers and Other Good Ideas (1989), Odd Dogs (1989), Holy Unacceptable (1990), Commuted to Life (1992), Everybody's Doing It (1993) and three children's books featuring the teddy bear Tough Ted.