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Tor Freeman, Author
Series: Boss of the Underworld
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Publication date: January 15, 2026
Category: Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781444976410
Second in a hilarious full-colour graphic novel series by the award-winning Tor Freeman, perfect for fans of Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey. Come with Shirley as she falls down a hole into the Under-Underworld…
Shirley follows her cockroach companion George into the Under-Underworld and finds herself immediately crowned as queen. With Peels, a banana-skin royalist, Shirley travels across the junkyard of this new world to rescue George and confront the Huge Beast who has been terrorising the land.
Praise for Boss of the Underworld:
‘Genuinely laugh out loud funny’ Louie Stowell
‘This is very funny – and more crucially, it’s weird’ Cariad Lloyd
‘Out of this underworld!’ Steven Lenton
‘A tour de force of silliness’ Gary Northfield
Tor Freeman is an author and illustrator of picture and chapter books, and has been published in the UK and worldwide. She is a regular contributor to magazines including The Phoenix.
In 2012 she was awarded a Sendak Fellowship. She is also the winner of the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize.
Her books include Ten Fat Sausages by Michelle Robinson and most recently The Book that No One Wanted to Read by Richard Ayoade. She has had two comics published by Bog Eyed Books, Welcome to Oddleigh and Sister Clawdetta: Murder at the Monastery.
Tor lives and works in London.