I adored Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half blog, and especially resonated with her cartoons about depression. I picked up Solutions and Other Problems, her second book, in the hopes it would be just as funny and affecting. While it was both of these things at times, overall the book just wasn’t as strong as her previous work. The book is primarily about funny anecdotes, childhood stories, and wacky takes on things. To be honest, they felt kind of forced and not particularly humorous. They […]

Allie Brosh is an internet darling. Her webcomics published on her blog Hyperbole and a Half in the 2000s and her crude drawings never fail to make me chuckle. And her latest published book, Solutions and Other Problems, continues her story where it left off. Brosh is wonderful. But she’s also intensely weird in the way that tells you there is a lot going on for her. She illustrates incredibly hilarious stories that transition to tragedy so quickly you’ll get stuck somewhere between laughing and […]