Small Hours: A Mrs. Frollein Collection

by Valerie Minelli, Valerie Minelli (Illustrator)

Overview

Valérie Minelli's global hit webcomic, Mrs. Follein, is collected for the first time in a deluxe hardcover.

Valérie Minelli’s tremendously popular Mrs. Frollein comics have been stirring emotion in people all over the world with heartfelt and earnest strips making fun of the mundane. These perfectly poignant webcomics find inspiration in the everyday, encompassing rainy coffee mornings, playful relationship adventures, and quiet introspective moments. The small, unexpected minutes that quilt life together. In addition to many of the most recent fan-favorite Mrs. Frollein strips, Small Hours also includes twenty-five all-new, never before released comics as well as a foreword from fellow web-comic luminaries, Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich of War and Peas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620107157
Publisher:	Oni Press
Publication date:	02/18/2020
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,118,750
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Mrs. Frollein is an ongoing webcomic about the life of its creator Valérie Minelli. When she's not busy creating comics, Minelli loves to draw illustrations especially for children’s books and fangirling about whatever band she likes the most at the moment.

Editorial Reviews

2020-02-17
Originally a webcomic, Minelli’s vignettes ruminate on life, love, and anxiety.

Black-and-white (with the occasional color accent), this anthology collects a series of mostly four-paneled comic strips (with the occasional six- or eight-panel length bits). Populated mainly by an unnamed female character and her similarly unnamed boyfriend, this bitingly observant collection depicts the most mundane aspects of everyday life and relationships—sharing a bed with a partner, feeling anxiety in a world seemingly overwhelmed with unending horrors—through an empathetically humorous lens. Most of the sketches examine more adult problems, however many, like those focusing on self-doubt or finding joy, are universal. In the wordless piece “Thank You,” the unnamed main character sits on her bed in a dark room and cries only to be comforted by the arrival of her dog. In another, “So Cute,” the male character reflects on how adorable his girlfriend is while sleeping—until she farts on him. The foreword by Jonathan Kunz and Elizabeth Pich explains their theory of #sadbutfunny and describes how Minelli strives to impart readers with a sense of hope. With a nod toward introversion, all things comfy, and love of geek culture, expect this to resonate with fans of webcomic “Sarah Scribbles” by Sarah Andersen or Book Love by Debbie Tung (2019). Both unnamed characters are white.

Delightfully snarky existentialism that reads like the millennial descendant of “Love Is.” (Graphic fiction. 14-adult)

Kirkus Reviews