Oh gosh, there’s one I discovered and I thought it was genius – Romantically Apocalyptic. I laugh really hard at Nedroid, and I really like Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. WIRED: Are there any webcomics that you’d recommend?īrosh: Matt Inman of The Oatmeal is a friend of mine, and he’s very funny. It does allow me to conceal a little bit more information from the reader, which is fun as far as timing goes. There were some times when I had to say, hey, let’s put this on the next page. WIRED: When you were making the new comics for the print edition, how different was it to write for page breaks instead of a scrolling webpage?īrosh: It obviously wasn’t possible to add a page break every single time I thought one needed to be there, but that was something that I got to play around with. People might not even notice that I changed anything, because it reads the same and feel the same but to me it was important to me that I tweak it a bit and update the art. I did add some revised art, but I was careful to do it in a way that felt consistent with the original post. So I think the whole thing might be more consistent in terms of quality. Having to turn in the whole book at once allowed me to – once I learned something new, I would see if I could apply that to the other posts I’d been working on. One thing I noticed is that every time I write something new I learn a little bit more about how to write and draw better. I really enjoyed being able to work on everything at once. Did you start out thinking of your work as a webcomic or as illustrated prose?īrosh: The process was essentially the same, but there were some differences. WIRED: Hyperbole and a Half uses a hybrid storytelling format that falls somewhere between prose and comic. Brosh talked with WIRED about all the things - or at least alot of them. The book includes fan-favorite tales like ' The God of Cake,' as well as all-new comics written for the book, like the story of why she has spent her entire life lying about hot sauce. This week, Simon and Schuster publishes Brosh's first print collection of her work, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened. Brosh is a seemingly inexhaustible resource of fantastic stories, which manage to find hilarity in the mundane, the absurd, and the tragic. Perhaps you know Allie Brosh from the most famous panel of her webcomic Hyperbole and Half, where a manic cartoon character holds a broom in the air and shouts 'CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!' Or perhaps you've read her comics about going to a children's birthday party while heavily sedated and attempting to move with her two insane dogs on a cross-country road trip.

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