Let Me Be Frank

Comics 2010–2019

‘Audaciously, addictively honest’ Anna Smaill

Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing’s popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time.

Sarah Laing began blogging her comics in 2009 as a way to shed light on her fiction writing and to record life before it evaporated. The comics soon had a large audience, eager for the next instalment about her parenting fails and successes, her writing, her obsession with Katherine Mansfield, her family’s history, pet mice, sex, clothes and more.

Let Me Be Frank is a witty, whip-smart comic collection that is always disarmingly frank.

‘I was instantly intoxicated by her mix of neuroticism, loopy handwritten text and probably unintentional romanticism of mundane domestic reality’ New Zealand Herald

‘Warm, searing...beautifully done. It’s amazing’ Booktime Brunch Antonia Honeywell, Booktime Brunch

Paperback: 348pp

Published: Lightning Books (January 2020)

ISBN: 9781785631672