Sarah Andersen has been sharing Sarah Scribbles as an online comic diary for atleast ten years, and has released five book compilations, including Adulthood Is a Myth, Big Mushy Happy Lump, Herding Cats, Oddball, and Adulthood Is a Gift. Together, this collection is a Millennial Coming-of-Age memoir in comic graphic form. Follow Sarah’s obsessions throughout her twenties, which I suspect is not unique to her, but a common set of generational viewpoints.

Sarah struggles with her introversion, with responsible behavior like going to bed early to get up for work, and the threats and rewards of intimate relationships. As the series progresses, she introduces the characters of her brain and her uterus and ovaries, cleverly influencing her behavior, undoing her best intentions. Especially funny is her characters Social Anxiety, Over Thinking, and Crippling Lack of Self-Confidence, with which she argues, and is tortured. It is so smart to create these as characters outside of herself with which she does battle and is tormented.

Sarah also shares her obsessions with pets, especially her wise rabbit, and how she developed a love for, nay obsession with, her cat. Sarah offers shrewd observations on the influence of social media on the lives of young adults, and the way the web enables micro-obsessions, such as deadly diseases, or frogs. Her simple line drawings manage to convey so much emotional information very economically, and with great humor.

By the last volume, we see her concerns as she crosses over into her thirties. For some reason, she begins to take an interest in covens, vampires, and evil influences. Perhaps turning thirty gives her a first glimpse of the end of life, and that is a scary thing. Apart from that disconcerting turn, the series is very funny and enjoyable. This boomer appreciated the look into the concerns of a millennial embracing adulthood, shared with candor and witty humor.