Allie Brosh
ISBN: 9781451666175
Collected from her online comic and blog @ http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/
Read June 2015
I have been following Brosh online at Hyperbole and a Half from about the time of "Simple Dog," and had gone back and binged on past posts, and regularly check for life insights and an ironic chuckle (much like the emotional equivalent of xkcd), but I had never had a chance to sit down and read her work on paper. Somehow the gut-wrenching emotional honesty of her postings is even more brutal when committed to paper, and I wanted to tear out her depression series and staple it to the heads of everyone who knows me.
Her art style is idiosyncratic and bizarre - the type of thing where you have to wonder if she is just putting people on and literally can't draw for crap, or that she's SO GOOD at drawing that she can make "fake crap" drawings that actually convey deep emotional truths. I honestly don't know.
She's fun, she's real, she's got an amazing way of explaining things that will either make perfect sense to you, or leave you whining on the floor like Helper Dog. It's a good wavelength tho, if you can figure out how to surf it.
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