Gijsemans, meanwhile, is one to watch.

This is a wonderful book, and I want everyone to read it

This beautiful, moving book isn’t only about what it is like to be too much alone; to turn its almost wordless pages is briefly to replicate the experience. The deafening silence of its frames are at moments as crushing as lead… This is a wonderful book, and I want everyone to read it. Its emotional and visual economy is extraordinary, Gijsemans showing such (precocious) daring when he devotes six, nine, even 12 frames to the smallest ceremonies… His drawings, washed out but somehow lush, too, are so tender and telling.

Hubert is a brave and emotional piece of storytelling… Created with amazing care and stunning empathy…. Hubert’s movements, mannerisms and characteristics also unfold beautifully… Repeat viewings let you pore over the pictures to see the subtlety of Gijsemans’s touch, which can squeeze more into a panel than can be explained in a hundred words. It’s a beautiful story, beautifully told.

Does an excellent job of representing both paintings and the buildings which house them. His interior and exterior work is highly skilled, and he has a talent for short runs of panels that zoom in on details of sculptures and paintings, as well as architectural features… A curiously meditative effect, like a series of snapshots of Hubert’s life… This is an original and distinctive work, undeniably beautiful and thought provoking.

A book about loneliness in the big city that comes with some of the most delicately gorgeous illustrations I’ve seen in years.

Hilarious and poignant and brilliantly illustrated. Check it out. The whole blog is inspired.”

“Once I started reading Hyperbole and a Half, I found myself unable to stop—except to laugh uproariously.

“Here’s a rough analogy: David Sedaris sets out to write a graphic memoir, but decides to use the MS Paint application on his computer rather than hire an artist. . . . [Brosh’s] naïve art plays brilliantly against dark comic themes.”

One of 2013’s biggest publishing successes … Quirky and captivating

Very funny, occasionally incredibly insightful (when [Brosh] chooses to be in that mood), and a brilliant dip-in-and-dip-out-of book

Brosh's naive but surprisingly affecting illustrations have gained her blog, Hyperbole and a Half, a cult following... I defy anyone who has suffered from depression not to cry at her stark account of suffering from the illness

Hilarious… I love the intersection of things that are as dark as they can be and as funny

It’s impossible not to warm to cartoonist and blogger Allie. If she doesn’t get to you with her funny childhood anecdotes (eating an entire birthday cake) then her honest reflections on depression will

Brosh fills her comics with heart, boldly tackling subjects as different as dog-ownership and depression

Wonderful graphic novel.

The storyline is exciting and well thought out to give a wide overview of the suffrage movement. I was very pleasantly surprised.

A seamless blend of historical fact and fiction ... The illustrations are full of energy and expression.