Hold on. Is this just
the blog, but put in book form?
I have no idea. My
wife saw that her friends had a copy of this, and then she needed to have a
copy of it. It might have some new stuff
though, since my wife, as she read it would comment about how she hadn’t read a
section. And she laughed.
I have only read one of the blog-stories that are included
in this book, and that was the cartoon about the author’s fight with
depression. I haven’t faced what she has
faced, but the way she described it helped me understand some people I know in
a better way. That was worth the money
alone, you know, paying for something you can get free on the internet (support
your local artists in the global village, etc).
I then read them in
one sitting and laughed and laughed.
I have a feeling that Brosh can actually draw, but her style
is deliberately primitive. The way she
illustrates the weird hatted-tadpole that is the authorial stand-in in these
comics shows she understands the human
body. Don’t let the “bad” drawing
of the occasional nasty language dissuade you from reading these tales. Brosh
is a keen observer of the human condition, and is someone to keep an eye on (in
the anticipatory sort of way, though perhaps in the not trusting with the
glassware sort of way as well).
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