Going Up In Smoke

Two years ago illustrator Nik Heemskerk wondered; why do we smoke? Two years on, after months of research and an illustration degree, Nik still hasn’t a clue… Nevertheless, he made a graphic novel about it; GOING UP IN SMOKE: Uncle Rob’s Historically Accurate Chronology Of Smoking.
In collaboration with writer Milo Cremer Eindhoven, Nik has collected the very best absurd facts in the history of smoking and paired them with equally strange illustrations. All the while, the whole is neatly strung together with a story of an Uncle trying to convince his nephew smoking is hot stuff. Yes, really...