I haven’t read a true comic book since Calvin and Hobbes in grade school but I am in love with Sarah Andersen’s cartoons, which I discovered through Instagram, and impulsively bought her new book (out today!) with part of a birthday gift card. While it took all of fifteen minutes to read it was an enjoyable fifteen minutes- also, the cover page has felt letters so that’s a plus!
I wished Andersen had taken a page out of Allie Brosh’s book and inserted some personal anecdotes in between comics but that isn’t really her style, her Instagram posts typically don’t have captions; luckily her work is funny and poignant without a lot of narrative. She’s an introvert, she has some anxiety with social situations and she has a great sense of humor. If you’re familiar with her work then you’ll be happy to see there is new material in the book and not just a regurgitation of her various social media accounts.
While this one isn’t going to set anyone’s world on fire it will make you smile on a bad day and I look forward to flipping through my adult comic book after an awkward social encounter for years to come.
That bookstore comic is totally relatable. I FEEL those feels all the time.
I wanna borrow this! Can you send it with Andre tonight??
He isn’t going to come home beforehand. I’m sure I’ll be that way some time soon. I’ll leave in my car and drop it when I can
That bookstore one is what introduced me to Sarah’s Scribbles and I immediately went down the comic rabbit hole. Her comics are adorable. I just ordered this, can’t wait to give it a look!