Adventures of a Stick Figure Human
On a (mostly) daily basis, little Sadbook human makes your day over at sadbook.substack.com. You never know what your favorite stick figure human will be up to! From existential crises to dreamy meditations looking out the window, from dramatic “I’ll never recover!” days to “I’M SO INSPIRED I’LL NEVER BE UNINSPIRED AGAIN!!!” nights, it’s fun to see what Sadbook will do next.
But what about when you want to look back and remember your faves? How can you easily find them? Well, now you can get the whole second year’s collection of Sadbook human’s adventures—in a happy book form!
Perfect for days when you need a smile. Makes a nice gift book, too, so Sadbook has heard from friends.
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Sara Barkat is the author of the indie excellence awards finalist collection The Shivering Ground & Other Stories and illustrator of The Colour out of Space: A Graphic Novel and The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Graphic Novel. Of course, she also draws Sadbook on a (mostly) daily basis at sadbook.substack.com. You can also visit the artist at sarabarkat.com
Before the Cover, the Comic!
Occasionally the illustrator colors her otherwise minimalist drawings.
So it went with Sudden.
She liked the result so much, and the picture felt so right for this particular collection, that the comic became the cover—with color!
Here’s the comic before the cover…
