I got the hardback copy which has thick paper stock and the pages have a reflective satiny feel. It is a true testament to her strength, even if she never feels that strength on some days. In fact I’m immensely impressed that not only did she get out of bed in the morning, but that she managed to craft another illustrated memoir at all. But knowing what the author was going through in her personal life white creating this graphic novel, I’m not surprised. It was highly entertaining… there was just something about the collation of everything that didn’t sell it for me like ‘ Hyperbole and a Half.’ There was something missing too – that intensity. So too are her talents to craft comic strips and tell story snippets. The artwork is splendidly artistic and simple at the same time as being hugely expressive to convey emotion and subtext. I didn’t really laugh that much, and while the more serious topics were sobering, they didn’t drag the emotion out of me like the debut… maybe I’m now dead inside? *These are lies.Where ‘ Hyperbole and a Half’ had me in tears of joy and sadness and brilliantly juxtaposed serious issues about mental health and loss with the random stupidity and innocence of youth ‘ Solutions and Other Problems’ tried to follow this roadmap, but just didn’t hit the turns right.

Stories about things that happened to other people because of me So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:

I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative-like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it-but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written.īrosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh.

“Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.Įvery time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices.

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