It is a story of depressive episodes that uses the metaphor of a dragon as a formidable opponent. It’s a beautiful midnight blue clothbound hardback and the images inside are muted greyscale with the very occasional flash of colour.
Night Shift is different to the other two being more poetic in nature. I found her prose particularly insightful though. This is much more ‘individual comic image’ style. Every now and then there is some prose discussing the images in that section with the images then left to their own devices. It’s All Absolutely Fine by Ruby Elliot (RubyETC) I only know about because of YALC this year and I picked up a signed copy. This is a funny book with a good balance between the images and textual story linking them. Two chapters within the book focus explicitly on Depression although other topics such as Dogs are also covered.
I’m pretty sure you will have seen Allie Brian’s images shared as memes on social media. The images in Hyperbole and a Half are in colour whereas It’s All Absolutely Fine contains line drawings in black on white. The first two books don’t only share bright yellow covers but have a similar style with rather unusual looking characters. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh, It’s All Absolutely Fine by Ruby Elliot and Night Shift by Debi Gliori. Poignant and uproarious - think Cyanide and Happiness but with story-lines, cake and dogs.Today I want to talk about three cartoon/graphic books that each explore the experience of mental health. It includes stories about her rambunctious childhood the highs and mostly lows of owning a mentally challenged dog and a moving and darkly comic account of her struggles with depression. Now her full-colour debut book chronicles the many "learning experiences" Brosh has endured as a result of her own character flaws. Brosh's website receives millions of visitors a month and hundreds of thousands per day.
She accompanies these with naive drawings using Paint on her PC. She tells fantastically funny, wise stories about the mishaps of her everyday life, with titles like 'Why Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving' and 'The God of Cake'. Hyperbole and A Half is a blog written by a 20-something American girl called Allie Brosh. Hilarious stories about life's mishaps from the creator of the immensely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half.įully illustrated with over 50% new material.
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