Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here are your hosts. John Joseph Adams and David Barr-Kirtley.

Hi, this is Dave.

And this is John.

And welcome to episode 97 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Ali Brosh, creator of the popular web comic, Hyperbole and a half.

The comic, which mostly deals with funny stories from the author's childhood, as well

as touching on more serious subjects like her ongoing battle with depression, is intentionally

drawn to look like something a child

would create using Microsoft paint and has a devoted falling with almost 400,000 likes

on Facebook. A print version entitled Hyperbole and a half, Unfortunate Situations, Mayhem,

and other stuff that happened is out now.

Then stick around after the interview

as David Malke, creator of the web comic comic strips.

All right, so let's get to her interview.

All right, so we're here with Ali, Brash. Welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, David. So we're here with Ali Brash. Welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, David.

All right, and so since you do this comic, one problem that we have doing an audio podcast is we can't show people what the comic looks like.

And I think many many people who don't know your name or the name of the comic would recognize it visually if they saw it because it's just you know the pictures appear everywhere and yeah and it

it occurred to me you must run into this problem just when you're talking to

people right so do you have some way of describing your comic to people in

words that they're like oh yeah I know that comic.

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