Adulthood is a myth : a "Sarah's scribbles" collection

Title:

Author:

Andersen, Sarah (Sarah C.), author, artist.

Summary:

Adulthood is a myth confronts head-on the horrors, anxiety, and awkwardness of modern adult life. From the agony of holding hands with a gorgeous guy to the yawning pit of hell that is the wifi gone down to the eye-watering pain of eating too-hot pizza because one cannot stand to wait for it to cool down, Sarah fearlessly documents it all. Like the work of fellow Millennial authors Allie Brosh, Grace Helbig, and Gemma Correll, Sarah's total frankness on extremely personal issues such as body image, self-consciousness, introversion, relationships, and bra-washing makes her comics highly relatable and consistently hilarious.

Physical Description:

109 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm

Genre:

Graphic novels.

Humorous comics.

Comics (Graphic works)

Subject Term:

Single women -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Young adults -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Generation Y -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Publisher:

Andrews McMeel Publishing,

Publication Date:

2016

ISBN:

9781449474195

Publication Information:

Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2016]

Call Number:

741.5 ANDERSE

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

The hilarious debut Sarah's Scribbles collection from Sarah Andersen, winner of three consecutive Goodreads Choice Awards for Graphic Novels and Comics

These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young 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. 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, showcasing how she became one of the most influential voices in web cartoonists.

Author Notes

Sarah Andersen is a cartoonist and illustrator from New England. She is the author of the award-winning series Sarah's Scribbles , which has earned her three consecutive Goodreads Choice Awards. Her semi-autobiographical comics chronicle the continual struggles of waking up in the morning, being productive, dealing with social awkwardness, technology, and her beloved pets. Together with author Andy Weir, she also illustrated the graphic novel Cheshire Crossing , a mashup of Wizard of Oz , Peter Pan , and Alice in Wonderland . Her gothic romance, Fangs , began running online in 2020 as a serial comic strip on Tapas and will be published in September 2020 in hardcover form. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014 and currently lives in Montreal, Canada.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Andersen explores the foibles of young adulthood in this debut collection of single-gag strips, many of which have already found viral success online. These "scribbles" poke gently at everything from paycheck management to pedicures. Andersen is an excellent caricaturist-some of her funniest punch lines are panels of wordless, wide-eyed faces. Like so many talented comedians before her, much of her best material comes from the uncomfortable and even embarrassing aspects of life. Strips that engage social anxiety in all forms-including body-hair depilation and social media performance-are standouts, and judging by their online reception, they're among her most relatable work. This isn't a volume that will speak to everyone, but it doesn't need to be. In keeping her focus strictly personal, Andersen makes a bold debut into print. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.