In Praise Of: Allie Brosh

A few years ago I discovered a website of wacky, funny, smart, adult-child stories written and illustrated by Allie Brosh. The tales she tells--and the way she tells them--are hard to describe. You just have to experience them for yourself.

[One mainstream review: “This site is chock full of childhood stories and random thoughts, all accompanied by hilarious drawings done by MS Paint . . . It’ll cost ya hours of your life as you laugh out loud while reading." -Whitney Matheson, USA Today]

Allie has been working on a book for the past 2 years (it's finally coming out in October 2013). Her site has not been updated in some time. But in its heyday--before the book deal--more than a million people visited the site every month to see what she would do next.

Here are some of my favorites:

• The God of Cake

• How A Fish Almost Destroyed My Childhood

• The Year the Easter Bunny Died

• The Scariest Story

• Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving