Alex Graudins

A fairly decent graphic memoir about using improvisational comedy as a way to confront and mend cycles of anxiety and depression loses me when it gets bogged down in showing every single improv exercise the author ever did with re-enactments of scenes she found most memorable. All the improv comes at the expense of seeing how she is handling daily life and interacting with people outside the improv class. She lives with her parents, for instance, but they are barely there non-entities. Heck, even her improv classmates are little more than their names.

In the end it comes off as more an improv textbook than a personal story.… (meer)