Snotgirl #1 it's snot that bad

Snotgirl is written by Bryan O'Malley, art by Leslie Hung, colours by Mickey Quinn, letters by Mare Oromo and published by Image Comics. I originally intended to pick up Snotgirl for a friend of mine, who suffers from allergies, to try and introduce her to comics but I thought I should have a quick skim through just to see if I thought she would enjoy it and well, Snotgirl is mine now and I'm not giving it to my friend. Maybe I'll let her borrow it from me.

Lottie Person is a stylish, gorgeous and fun fashion blogger that is better than you in every way and she knows it or at least that's what Lottie's social media would have you believe, the truth however is far less glamorous. As far as anybody knows Lottie's life is picture perfect because the most important thing to Lottie is keeping any side of her that isn't perfect, especially her severe allergies, hidden away in the depths of her snotty tissue filled bedroom although she thinks that maybe her new allergy medication might put an end to this hidden part of her life. Lottie is at a strange time in her life while her fashion blog is popular nobody recognizes her, she makes plans with her friends that then ditch her at the last moment and her "estranged boyfriend", Sunny, is seeing someone *gasp* younger. Lottie thinks that maybe her luck is turning around and she will get the happiness a beautiful and fashionable person like herself deserves when she meets Caroline the "cool girl" and decides to go out for drinks. All is going well with with Cool Girl until Lottie spots someone she didn't expect to see.

Lottie is vain, egotistical, catty and don't we just love her for it. While Lottie is completely sure of some aspects of herself, such as how beautiful she is and her knowledge of whats cool and whats not in fashion, Lottie absolutely screams insecurities clearly evident in her refusal to show any imperfect moment of herself to anyone and her immediate idol worship of Cool Girl and her carefree attitude. While Lottie is not the nicest person in the world she still has an appeal that makes you want her to be happy. I think Lottie taps into the part of every person that hides a part of themselves from the world making it pretty hard to not feel at least a little sympathy for her.

I've had friends cancel on me with poor excuses but damn Cute Girl thats cold

Snotgirl is an incredibly colourful comic with all the main characters fantastically coloured and different in their designs working with their individual styles. The backgrounds are either blank or with minor detail but one of the things that I like the most about the art style of this comic is that any characters in the background that aren't Lottie or the people that play a role in her life are done in a single colour with little detail. I think that the lack of colour and detail on background characters is fantastic way of showing that in no uncertain terms that, to Lottie anyway, these people are unimportant making it very clear that Lottie's world revolves entirely around Lottie.

Look at those unimportant blue people

Snotgirl was actually a lot better than I expected. If you've seen my Facebook or Instagram you know that fashion isn't exactly something that ranks highly on my list of priorities so I wasn't too sure that it would be for me but I was pleasantly surprised. Snotgirl may not hit the spot with everyone as it is heavy with social media references and gen Y lingo but even if it doesn't seem like the thing you'd usually be into I'd suggest giving it a try as you may be surprised like I was.

I give Snotgirl 3.5 our of 5 Half-caf cold brew with non fat almond milk and one pump of lavender syrup coffees.

Find out more about Snotgirl here.