‘Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving’ by Allie Brosh

The autofictional memoirs of Allie Brosh take the form of half-comics/half-prose, told with a deliberate artlessness that extends to the artwork itself being a sort of Microsoft Paint scribble and the prose being conversational. But from this she creates stories that are often either hilarious (like this one about attempting to move house with two psychologically unsound dogs) or heartbreaking. Her second collection, Solutions and Other Problems, is a book almost broken by grief.

First self-published online, 2010 and available to read here. Collected in Hyperbole and a Half, Touchstone, 2013