Adulthood Is a Myth

“Your time has come. We must now review your life. We’ll start with your Internet search history." Sarah Andersen

If books could hug, ’Adulthood Is a Myth’ by Sarah Andersen would be that one mega-hugger that cradles you back into believing that you’re not completely failing at adulthood. I’ve followed the young Brooklyn-based artist’s work for years now and if there is one thing anyone could safely conclude about her work, that’d be that it is (un)comfortably too real.

This 102 pager is a compilation of all her art work titled “Sarah Scribbles” featuring the “horrors and awkwardness of young modern life”. The dark hilarity of some of the strips borders on the creator’s real life, I’d like to believe. Andersen is my soul sister so this review can’t be completely unbiased I fear, but I can confidently say that this is painted with less melancholy than Hyperbole and a Half blog.

Every panel of wordless wide-eyed doodle and every sigh in this book had me gripped. An “Oh! Me too!” bookmark would go really well when you gift this to your closest “co-adulter”.

The day you lock your keys in the car, delete your Twitter account hoping to un-see all the Trump news, get caught rolling your eyes at your boss at work or are just having one of those Black Mirror days - pick this up! Hug this book. Never ever let it go.