Big Mushy Happy Lump

"... Comics So Relatable it Hurts: (BuzzFeed) "Hillarious illustrations that sum up the bonds of femaie friendship ... Sarah Andersen is known for capturing the good, the bad, and the downright hilarious parts of being a lady. (In) Big Mushy Happy Lump, she hits the nail on the head when it comes to female friendship." (Huffington Post) "You've probably seen Sarah Andersen's comics ... and you probably feel like Sarah Andersen has the uncanny ability to read your mind and then draw doodles of all your anxieties. Either way, her comics are adorably awkward, and Big Mushy Happy Lump is a delightful collection ..." (Bustle) Succinct, easily disseminated odes to the quotidian struggles of millennial life are common in cartooning, but Andersen has perfectedand, in fact, elevatedthis form. Here is work that has been sharpened to a fine point: smart, warm, cutting, and clever. This volume is a witty comfort from beginning to end. (Starred Review) (Publishers Weekly)

Sarah Andersen is a cartoonist and illustrator from New England. She is the author of the award-winning series Sarahs Scribbles, which has earned her three consecutive Goodreads Choice Awards. Her semi-autobiographical comics chronicle the continual struggles of waking up in the morning, being productive, dealing with social awkwardness, technology, and her beloved pets. Together with author Andy Weir, she also illustrated the graphic novel Cheshire Crossing, a mashup of Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Alice in Wonderland. Her gothic romance, Fangs, began running online in 2020 as a serial comic strip on Tapas and will be published in September 2020 in hardcover form. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014 and currently lives in Montreal, Canada.