Title: Herding Cats: A "Sarah's Scribbles" Collection
Author: Sarah Andersen
Genre: Humor / Life / Art
Year Published: 2018
Year Read: 12/13/2017
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Series: Sarah's Scribbles #3
Source: eARC (NetGalley)
Content Rating: Ages 16+ (Some Language and Suggestive Humor)
Buy on: Amazon // Book Depository
I
would like to thank NetGalley and Andrews McMeel
Publishing, LLC for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest
review.
Introduction:
I have been hearing so
many good things about Sarah Andersen’s
popular “Scribbles” series and yet,
I was not able to pick up any of her books when they were coming out. Well, now I finally got the chance to pick up
one of her books through NetGalley, which is the third book in the series called
“Herding Cats” and I was quite
amazed by the humorous antics shown in this book!
What
is this story about?
In this volume, Sarah shows her experiences in both
real life and the internet life through her artwork (or scribbles as they are
known as) to relate to the readers such as trying to get through one page in a
book only to keep on reading the book even after you promised yourself to just
read one more page or seeing some progress happen in the United States only for
the 2016 elections to cause mayhem afterwards.
What
I loved about this story:
Sarah Andersen’s writing:
Wow! I was quite amazed by how Sarah
Andersen wrote this graphic novel series!
I loved the way that Sarah Andersen
relates her observations about real life both through her life and through
the internet in a humorous yet thought provoking way as I found myself agreeing
with a majority of her thoughts about real-life. I really loved the part about the 2016
elections as it was stated in one of the panels about how politics was making
progress before 2016 and then the 2016 elections hit and there was chaos and
mayhem! I was also impressed with the
fact that this graphic novel series is similar to Allie Brosh’s series “Hyperbole
and a Half” as both series have the authors relating their own lives
through their artwork and both are done in a hilarious way! I also loved the fact that Sarah Andersen provided some advice at
the end of the book about how to deal with the pressures of both the real world
and the internet community and how if you encounter some struggles in your
life, just keep on creating things that you love (in Sarah Andersen’s case, it is continuing to draw her comics no
matter how hard things get in both the real world and the internet community).
Sarah Andersen’s artwork: Sarah Andersen’s artwork is truly
hilarious to look at as the characters are drawn in a squat comic book fashion
and I especially love the images of Sarah herself as she is drawn as having
spiky hair and is wearing a black and white striped shirt. I also loved how Sarah Andersen conveyed some of the situations in real life through
the images such as the state of politics being shown as a person with an
American flag shaped head and then the next panel shows lots of people fighting
each other in a fiery landscape after the results of the 2016 elections.
What
made me feel uncomfortable about this story:
The reason I took off half a point from the rating was
because I felt that the story telling was a bit disjointed at times and it was
hard for me to really follow what is really going on in the story, even though
this is meant to take on different aspects of real life and put them in comic
book format.
Final
Thoughts:
Overall, “Herding Cats: A Sarah Scribbles
Collection” is a truly hilarious graphic
novel to read, especially if you want to see a more humorous take on real life!
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