Author: Sarah Andersen
Started: August 6, 2018
Finished: August 10, 2018
Pages: 112,112, and128
Genre: Graphic Novel
First Sentence:
Herding Cats - Well.
Adulthood is a Myth - I don't want to get up.
Big Mushy Happy Lump - I have so much work to do.
Herding Cats: [From BN] Sarah valiantly struggles with waking up in the morning, being productive, and dealing with social situations. Sarah's Scribbles is the comic strip that follows her life, finding humor in living as an adulting introvert that is at times weird, awkward, and embarrassing.
Adulthood is a Myth: [From BN] These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Andersen are for the rest of us. They document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, and dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life. Oh and they are totally not autobiographical. At all. Adulthood Is a Myth presents many fan favorites plus dozens of all-new comics exclusive to this book. Like the work of fellow Millennial authors Allie Brosh, Grace Helbig, and Gemma Correll, Sarah's frankness on personal issues like body image, self-consciousness, introversion, relationships, and the frequency of bra-washing makes her comics highly relatable and deeply hilarious.Big Mushy Happy Lump: [From BN] Sarah Andersen's hugely popular, world-famous Sarah's Scribbles comics are for those of us who boast bookstore-ready bodies and Netflix-ready hair, who are always down for all-night reading-in-bed parties and extremely exclusive after-hour one-person music festivals. In addition to the most recent Sarah's Scribbles fan favorites and dozens of all-new comics, this volume contains illustrated personal essays on Sarah's real-life experiences with anxiety, career, relationships and other adulthood challenges that will remind readers of Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half and Jenny Lawson's Let's Pretend This Never Happened. The same uniquely frank, real, yet humorous and uplifting tone that makes Sarah's Scribbles so relatable blooms beautifully in this new longer form.
Thoughts: This review is going to be short and sweet. If you love Andersen's web comic, you'll love these collections. (Mainly because their just collections of her work.) The panels are hilarious and relateable. If you're a woman, you will see yourself in these books and laugh your ass off. I borrowed these books from the library, but I'm seriously considered buying them because I enjoyed reading them that much.
Rating: 7/10 [Very Good]
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