The Ladybird Book of the Zombie Apocalypse

The writing in this adult picture book is a sardonic rip at our culture's obsession with zombies through the lens of reappropriated artwork from (my guess is) the 1950-60's. It has the feel of a collection of New Yorker comics focusing on the theme of the Apocalypse:

“Sebastian is manning the Ventnor comms station on the Isle of Wight. An island is a safe place to be because it is easily quarantined, but supplies from the mainland can be irregular. If the islanders find out Sebastian is hoarding the last roll of toilet paper, they will break in and kill him.”

I expected a few laughs from the absurd juxtapositions, but was surprised to find an analogizing of our current paranoia over zombies with our history of casting indigenous peoples as primitive savages.

Social commentary on deeply ingrained racial biases gives this book more of a reason for being besides a few cheap jokes about how oblivious people of the 1950's seem to us today.