Lost Summers and Half-Forgotten Afternoons: A Mint Sauce Collection

Jo Burt’s comic strips detailing the adventures of Mint, a mountain-biking sheep, have amused and delighted readers for over three decades. Join Mint as he rides through an enchanting, bucolic world in which Death stalks the whaleback hills of the South Downs and Summer is a beautiful, capricious goddess.

Cheerfully wistful, wilfully surreal and obsessively detailed, Mint Sauce covers the broad gamut of existence, with ungulates on bikes serving as a backdrop to love, loss, death, the weather, joy, sadness and some more weather.

Jo Burt has been drawing the Mint Sauce cartoon since 1987 and this is the first time it has ever been collected in a book. Featuring a new six-page story, a selection of classic strips from 1987-2023 and calendar images, plus commentary and an introduction by Jo.

• Softcover with flaps
• 320 x 230mm (portrait layout)
• 192 pages
• Full color illustrations
  
• Introduction and commentary by Jo Burt
• Printed in Wales