Brosh split from her husband, Duncan - once a fixture in her comics. Soon after her first book came out, Brosh's younger sister, Kaitlin, died at age 25. The book is filled both with the laugh-out-loud stories she is known for, but also discusses the trauma she has been dealing with in private. She got on Instagram and gained nearly 30,000 followers in a few weeks. When Brosh announced in a new blog post, her first in seven years, that her new book was coming, her fans were overjoyed. Brosh writes about it all in her second book, S olutions and Other Problems, which comes out on Tuesday. Fans posted on Reddit expressing concern for her mental health and wondering what she was up to. Her blog has laid dormant, and a planned second book never appeared. Since October 2013, apart from a few small interviews, Brosh has been silent online. Her ability to mix comical and serious topics led to her being called 'an unlikely poster girl for depression.' Bill Gates called her book 'a funny, brutally honest memoir.' When Brosh released her book based on her blog, also titled Hyperbole and a Half, in 2013, it became a No.

Mixed in with her hilarious stories about her childhood and awkward moments, though, Brosh also became well known for her posts about mental health, like ' Adventures in Depression.' 'I’ve seen a lot of people, including clinical psychologists, say that this comic presents the best explanation of clinical depression of anything they’ve ever seen,' wrote one magazine writer in 2014. Countless of her blog posts, like ' The God of Cake' and ' The Alot Is Better Than You at Everything,' are still quoted all over the internet. Her self-portrait, in which she portrays herself in a pink dress with wide googly eyes and a triangular 'ponytail,' is probably her most recognizable. After starting her blog, Hyperbole and a Half, on a whim in the late 2000s, Brosh soon made a name for herself through her whimsical yet poignant webcomics, accompanied by her signature, simple yet brilliant drawings. If you've been on the internet at all over the past decade, you have seen Allie Brosh's work.

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