Quirkiest of the Quirks

Do you like to have fun? Do you love to laugh? Allie Brosh, delivers all that and more in this, her second book. She takes stories from her past and flight-of-ideas them into cartoon form, then whisks you away on tangential whims, but somehow ends up where she started, managing to make sense. However, all of that fun and lightheartedness is definitely shielding us/her from the underbelly of the story(ies). As you travel deeper into the book, between the lines you see the pain she dealt (deals?) with to create these wacky narratives. While I love her work, part of me wishes we lived in the same town and I could have a quiet chat with her on a Sunday morning. I'm in equal parts awed by her and worried about her. Nevertheless, perhaps writing is her own form of therapy, and I will most certainly continue to support her by buying/reading/recommending anything that flows out of her pen.