Hyperbole and a Half: ALL THE THINGS

2010

Date: 17 June 2010 · Place: hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com · Figures: Allie Brosh, author and illustrator · Tags: Webcomic, Mental Health, MS Paint 01. This Is Why I'll Never Be An Adult On 17 June 2010 Allie Brosh publishes the post This Is Why I'll Never Be An Adult on her Blogger site Hyperbole and a Half. The post's central image, a wild-eyed figure shouting CLEAN ALL THE THINGS, is excerpted as a freestanding macro within days. It becomes the canonical template for manic over-commitment. Brosh's deliberately crude MS Paint style, square-pupil figures and pink hair, sets the visual register for a generation of confessional webcomics. 02. The Webcomic As Memoir Hyperbole and a Half is the bridge between the gag-strip webcomic and the autobiographical illustrated essay. Brosh's 2013 two-part post Depression and Depression Part Two is widely cited as the most accurate first-person account of clinical depression on the open web. Her Touchstone book Hyperbole and a Half (October 2013) reaches number one on the New York Times bestseller list, the first blog-to-book crossover of its kind for the medium. "CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!" — Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half, 17 June 2010 Sources • Hyperbole and a Half blog archive (2010-2013) • The New York Times, 'A Cartoonist's Funny, Fearful Confessional' (29 October 2013) • KnowYourMeme, 'X All the Y'