It’s the comic for which she respects herself most, Brosh wrote in an e-mail to CNN. “No, see, I don’t necessarily want to KILL myself …” the comic version of Brosh tells her horrified mother.

Just a few months ago, she returned with a new post, “Depression Part Two.” In the comic, Brosh’s illustrated version of herself struggles with detachment from her feelings and the exasperation of trying to explain the predicament to others. It was her last post in more than a year. In 2011, she posted a comic called “Adventures in Depression,” detailing the sadness, apathy and self-loathing that came along with the disease. Thousands visit her website for her comedic excavation of what she sees as her deepest flaws. For example, take her post entitled “This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult,” in which Brosh drew about the desire to do adult things such as go to the bank and “CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!” – a phrase that spawned an Internet meme – and the desire to play on the Internet till 3:17 a.m.īrosh’s blog is so popular it has spawned a book that released last week, “Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened.” The book mixes her most popular blog posts with new stories that explore her childhood and struggles with anxiety. Through her unusual sense of humor and characteristically spazzy illustrations, Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half finds common ground with her many fans. Allie Brosh’s comics examine the mundane and the irrational – crazy dogs, the danger of a kid’s dinosaur costume, a shriveled kernel of corn that can break through deep depression.

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