Adulthood Is a Myth: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)

by Sarah Andersen

These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Andersen are for the rest of us. They document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, and dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life. Oh and they are totally not autobiographical. At all.
Adulthood Is a Myth presents many fan favorites plus dozens of all-new comics exclusive to this book. Like the work of fellow Millennial authors Allie Brosh, Grace Helbig, and Gemma Correll, Sarah's frankness on personal issues like body image, self-consciousness, introversion, relationships, and the frequency of bra-washing makes her comics highly relatable and deeply hilarious.

• ISBN10: 1449474195
• ISBN13: 9781449474195
• Publish Date: 7 April 2016
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 112
• Language: English

Reviews

[Amber (The Literary Phoenix)]

I am so delighted by this comic collection that I could probably squeal happily forever.

Also.

I feel like I'm the ONLY blogger I know that ever reviews comic collections.  That's a whole post in itself, however, and for now I will just say that I'm so happy I picked up Adulthood is a Myth.  I've been meaning to for years because every once in a while, I stumble across one of Sarah Andersen's Sarah Scribbles comics and it makes me feel heard.

And it makes me giggle.

Both of these things are important for me in comics.

Sarah Andersen has a simple and yet distinctive way of drawing.  She brings her introvert self into a myriad of familiar situations that I find myself just saying, "yup, relate" as I fly through the pages.  Many of these comics, of course, I've seen online, but others were completely new to me.  FOR EXAMPLE.  I had no idea that her uterus was a character but honestly that's such a smart choice.  I mean of course the uterus is a character I honestly feel like a menstruating person's uterus makes SO MANY decisions for them.  So yes.  This makes sense.

If you love her comics, Adulthood is a Myth is a sheer delight and definitely a collection I'll reread when I need to laugh a little.  Particularly that slightly maniacal "I'm sure I don't know what you mean" kind of laugh.  I recommend it highly to any low-key book-loving introvert and chances are, you're already at least in part familiar with Sarah's work.

[layawaydragon]

Really cute. I love Andersen's comics. I feel like I've seen most of these though (which might be due to people posting shit they shouldn't, TBH) so I'm glad I borrowed it from the library. Still brightened up my lunch, made me smile and laugh.

[writehollydavis]

Sadly and hilariously relatable. Can't count how many times I chuckled or burst out laughing. The best pick-me-up is this book!!

[remo]

Muy entretenido, aunque sin llegar a la genialidad. Te hace encariñarte con la autora. Algunas viñetas sí rozan, tocan y pisan la genialidad:

[Sarah Says]

Oh Sarah Anderson how I love you, your Instagram account always puts a smile on my face and so did this humorous and adorable collection of fantastic comic strips! And the cover is furry!

Sarah just about touches on everything there is to touch on in life and this book would be a great addition to every woman’s pick-me-up-crappy-day-solutions collection.

[ellieroth]

Genia Sarah. La verdad es que no hay material nuevo o exclusivo para el libro, solo es recopilatorio, aún así es extremadamente entretenido.