This book made me literally laugh out loud multiple time! Every page made me feel understood and not alone in my quirks. Sarah Anderson took the anxiety and insecurities I feel and maked them safe and funny. This book is the bright side to being an oddball. I absolutely loved it and am going to reread it again and again!!! Its a quick read that is worth your time. I know you'll thank me later if you give it a chance. Procrastinators, sweatpants wearers, and cat loving introverts unit!!! This is a book for us. Extroverts and dog lovers welcome. ♥

I've been following this comic artist on Instagram and was thrilled to see another book come out filled with her humor. Sarah Andersen is so relatable through her comic portrayal of a introverted oddball. With such little said and shown in each strip, simplistic in a positive way, she can create so many relatable emotions. She discusses everything from parties, friendship, style, age; but, I am especially fond of all the ones involving the ridiculousness of cats. If you want a laugh and quick read, definitely pick this up!

Thank you to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for an advanced electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

This collection shares a variety of hilarious and relatable comics that any 20-something can enjoy. I laughed and often thought, "oooo that's me," which made the experience even better. I highly recommend this artist's work!

Very funny and so much fun. I can totally see myself in that character and the situation she find herself into. Read it, you will like it!

This is so freaking cute, funny and soooo relatible it is unreal. I laughed out loud, showed/told my husband about a few i felt he would understand and just have a great time reading this.

I always look forward to Sarah's books and this one is just as strong as the previous efforts. Her ability to capture the humor and heart of everyday frustrations and fears is truly something special. The pure humanity of her comics remains utterly relatable. I see myself so strongly in this book and it gives me comfort while also making me laugh out loud.

5 stars - I loved it!

This is another wonderful collection of comics from Sarah's Scribbles comics. In this volume, she explores creativity, self expression, cats, and being an oddball. I really loved this collection and connected with almost all of the comics in it. She really does a wonderful job at capturing what it's like to be an introvert and oddball.

I've been a casual fan of this author's comics and it was fun to go through the collection. Many seemed timely in the setting of the recent pandemic, while others were more lighthearted and comforting. I particularly enjoyed the frequent appearance of cats and dogs that I found to be quite charming and relatable. A quick read that is fun to share with friends.

Review of Oddball by Sarah Anderson

This fourth collection of Sarah’s Scribbles comics is all about being a little strange and finding other people to be strange with whether the others are friends, pets, or just enjoying some time alone. Anderson writes about the awkwardness of being in one’s twenties and jokes about some differences between Millennials and Gen Z. Topics in this book include a love for Halloween, pets, Anderson’s experience being in her twenties, and more. This new book builds on all the humor and hopefulness found in the previous three comic collections. New and previous readers will devour this hilarious and wonderfully illustrated comic collection.

5 out of 5 stars for this delightful feel-good comic collection.

In the sea of uncertainty and anxiety these last almost 2 years have been, [author:Sarah Andersen|14144506] is exactly what we need. She puts into images and witty words what I've been feeling day to day. She makes me laugh at my oddities and those I see around me and learn to love and appreciate them more. We're all unique and your tribe is out there. This made me laugh when I needed it most. I loved it!

<i>A huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.</i>

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Sarah Andersen's art makes me happy. Having a crap/negative day? Stalk her on line a bit and reread all her strips and hey presto all is well again. And Oddball is no exception. I actually cant express how much I smiled while reading this. All hail Sarah!

This is the third Sarah Andersen book I’ve read. I loved the pages that had a cat or cats. SO realistic.

An example of a page that gave me a smile: why do witches always have black cats? There's a great page on Time Traveling. Some comic panels were blurry; I’m not sure why she blurred these pages . . . perhaps to show movement.

Many thanks to Netgalley for allowing us to enjoy Sarah’s Scribbles.

I first stumbled across Sarah Andersen's work back in 2017, and I've been a fan ever since. Somehow I never came around to reading the first book of the series yet, but I really enjoyed my time with book two and three. It's been a while since book three was published, making me even more excited when I saw a new bundle was going to be published soon. I know that I don't really read a lot of graphic novels, but there is just something about the style of the illustrations and the topics the author talks about that really speaks to me. And Oddball definitely didn't turned out to be an 'oddball' as I once more really enjoyed my time with this newest installment.

Once again you will see daily life mixed with anxiety topics as well as lots of cat/reading related illustrations. Most of the situations are extremely easy to relate to, or at least they are for me personally, and there is a healthy dose of humor included too. Especially the cat related ones made me laugh, as some of them are EXACTLY what my cats do as well. The introvert/anxiety ones were spot on as well, and we even get some COVID and Gen Z related ones along the way too. What makes Oddball feel more authentic is the fact that the situations are (partly) autobiographical, giving us both an insight in the author's life as well as creating easily relatable stories for fellow oddballs, introverts and cat/book lovers alike.

Oddball without doubt turned out to be another fun read and it's perfect for when you want to take a little break from the world, get yourself a cuppa and enjoy absorbing those pages. The illustrations are easy on the eye and the real life situations feel authentic. I've seen the tone being compared to Furiously Happy, and I still stand behind that comparison!

A much needed light, quick collection of comics on introversion, anxiety, cats, and embracing who you are. I could never get tired of Sarah Scribbles.

I would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. I have always been a fan of the Sarah Scribbles books, they never disappoint and this one was no exception. Looking forward to the next one.

Oh dear. A respect for these flippant one-page cartoon things, and even their longer-form essay-type variants (absent from this volume), had built up in my mind. Only to get shot down quite quickly here. Instead of love, the vagaries of life, and the insecure mind, we get yack about Millennials versus Generation Z, and I just have never been bothered to learn what trashy media think those labels even indicate. So I managed to be engaged by these pages even less than the earlier books when they'd been on about periods. I mean, someone calls a cat a "chonk" and I have less than zero idea wtf that's supposed to mean. I'm really surprised by how much the connection prior books managed to build up vanished almost overnight here, to such an extent I doubt the series could ever be redeemed.

I must admit I just got to the point where I would not mind if Ms Andersen kept publishing the same sketches again and again and again, because I just laughed out loud to some of the same comic strips I literally have to my left in my new Sarah’s Scribbles calendar.
I do not know if it is the drawing style, the big eyes, the cartoony teeth, the gestures, the blurred sketches mimicking movement or excitement, the (not-so) evil cats or a mixture of all together, but I feel identified in almost all of the strips. And I don’t even own a cat! Nor does a cat own me!
I particularly enjoy how she mixes more profound themes (anxiety, the feeling of being left out…) with simple jokes about the stupidity of a chonk cat, or how 'millennial language' is going to be impossible to understand in a few years.
I read a lot of similar collections lately becasue I really enjoy them, but I have yet to find someone who depicts awkwardness in such a mesmerizing way.
I am a huge fan of Fangs as well, but there is something in Sarah’s Scribbles that is just next level. I always turn to them when I need to get some laughs.

***Thanks to Netgalley and the editor for the ARC

For some reason I am not able to download this ARC. It will not open in Adobe. I would love to read this, as I have enjoyed this author's previous books, but I can't accurately review it because I cannot read it.

*13th August 2021*
Mind screams "Whatt? That's it?!* when the scribbles got over at page 105. I mean it's 114 pages in total. I forgot the covers and the rest. Time to cry in reader problems.

It's just too relatable. I just can't.


Thank you, my human in another part of the Earth and the publisher, for the advance reader copy.

I have never felt this blessed in 2021 in recieving a book to read and review.

*12th August 2021*
Gets the ARC AND FORGOT TO PUT OFF THE CAPS LOCK.

I love this book so much! Sarah Andersen puts pure magic on paper and makes it so relatable and funny. This is medicine after the pandemic years.