Emily Horne

First, you should buy this book because Emily Horne is a lovely person and today is her birthday. Second,you should buy it to see me engaged in at least a couple of absurdly foolish imaginary situations (pathetic child of divorced parents; cat killa), and my beautiful niece Luisa ruin her parents' lives and get threatened with all manner of horrible ends.


What they are, they're three-panel comics, photographed by Emily and written by Joey Comeau, and while some of them are formulaic or about show more zombies, the majority go from bathos to pathos at least once, sometimes making you wince in the process, and if you see them online the alt text will make you wince again. A compound wince. When I look at these strips they make me feel like our everyday human life is more twisted than we usually stop and acknowledge, and that's a very necessary thing. show less

I got this ages ago through their Kickstarter (I am one of those glorious GOLD BACKERS in the back of the book), and man, I didn't realize how much I missed A Softer World until now. Doing the big final book as a "best of" was a great choice, and the ASW edge is on fine display here. To toot my own horn one more time, I'm glad I helped make this thing happen.