London and Contemporary Britain in Monkey Dust

Disturbing, fantastically rude, and far more realistic than any sitcom ... The animated social satire ... is named after the drug PCP, renowned for giving rise to hallucinations, mania, delirium and disorientation ... Most people I’ve talked to about Monkey Dust say it is a complete nightmare ... ‘That cartoon scared the crap out of me,’ runs a typical fan’s message. ‘It’s really disturbing.’ Certainly there is not much sunshine. It’s all night, rain, knives, rats, garbage, urine and syringes in an urban wasteland. But it’s also very funny ... The contents of Monkey Dust are barely describable in a daily newspaper ... Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph, 4 November 2003