Lost Summers and Half-Forgotten Afternoons: A Mint Sauce collection
The first ever anthology of Jo Burt’s much loved cult comic strip!
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.
Limited-edition stickers sold out here but available directly from Jo Burt.
‘Mint has always been about gently immersing yourself within the landscape and experiencing all of what that may bring. Mud, brambles, rain, the odd glimpse of sunshine, roots, nettles, and very immovable trees. And a necessary stillness. While others might see mountain biking as a way of owning something or smashing it, Mint has always seen a ride as a way to disappear, dissolve into the hill and become an intimate and quiet part of the scenery.’
– Jo Burt
Softcover with flaps
300 x 230mm (portrait)
192 pages
Full colour illustrations
Introduction and commentary by Jo Burt
Six-page new comic strip
The first ever anthology of Jo Burt’s much loved cult comic strip!
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.
Limited-edition stickers sold out here but available directly from Jo Burt.
‘Mint has always been about gently immersing yourself within the landscape and experiencing all of what that may bring. Mud, brambles, rain, the odd glimpse of sunshine, roots, nettles, and very immovable trees. And a necessary stillness. While others might see mountain biking as a way of owning something or smashing it, Mint has always seen a ride as a way to disappear, dissolve into the hill and become an intimate and quiet part of the scenery.’
– Jo Burt
Softcover with flaps
300 x 230mm (portrait)
192 pages
Full colour illustrations
Introduction and commentary by Jo Burt
Six-page new comic strip
The first ever anthology of Jo Burt’s much loved cult comic strip!
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.
Limited-edition stickers sold out here but available directly from Jo Burt.
‘Mint has always been about gently immersing yourself within the landscape and experiencing all of what that may bring. Mud, brambles, rain, the odd glimpse of sunshine, roots, nettles, and very immovable trees. And a necessary stillness. While others might see mountain biking as a way of owning something or smashing it, Mint has always seen a ride as a way to disappear, dissolve into the hill and become an intimate and quiet part of the scenery.’
– Jo Burt
Softcover with flaps
300 x 230mm (portrait)
192 pages
Full colour illustrations
Introduction and commentary by Jo Burt
Six-page new comic strip
