Alone Forever: The Singles Collection

Alone Forever is a short book containing a selection of auto-biographic self-deprecating comic strips by Liz Prince about her dating life, or lack of.Liz is a bit of tomboy in ways of relating, always hanging out with boys, and dressing very boyish. Despite being taken for a lesbian often, she is very much straight and looking for love. She is bit neurotic, vengeful, confused, loving, loyal, funny, nerdy, and magnetically attracted to cute bearded guys wearing strange bands T-shirts. The comic strips depict how she relates to the opposite sex, how she flirts, and how she dates. My favourite pages are those devoted to the narration of the dates she got with guys she met through the dating site OK Cupid.The drawing style is a bit sketchy, even childish, very charming, very e-zine or bloggish. Still, some of her images are really beautiful and great.The strips are very short, the longest occupies a page, so they vary in degrees of success at engaging the reader. I found myself reading out loud at some of the strips, or just feeling in love with the version of Liz that Liz has created for the reader. Others were just OK.I recently read Jeff Brown's "Clumsy", and I found that Liz's and Jeff's have very similar books and ways of narrating. Although they are the flip side of the coin and of each other, they share the fact that they are not archetypal man and woman in their romantic relationships.This is a very entertaining and engaging book, and I read it in a sitting. Once ends loving Liz and wishing her lots of love!

I must admit that when I purchased this book I was hoping for a structured, single story line following Liz Prince's quest into a relationship in a similar fashion to what she masterfully crafted in her other book "Tomboy".However, "Alone Forever" turned out to be more of a selection of different comics with one topic and in more-or-less chronological order. That difference in expectations would be my one and only "complain" (and I guess such complain would have been easily resolved if I knew the whole dictionary definition of "Collection" on the book title)As for the rest, this book was wonderful! In her usual combination of laugh-out-loud humor and heart-wrenching moments she makes for a very personal and engaging telling of what is it like to be single when no partner seems to be "right" enough.

A work friend forwarded me this, asking if I had a secret alter-ego online... Needless to say, I knew I had to purchase it.Liz Prince is hilarious: I both loved and commiserated with many of the scenarios she depicted. I only wish (and don't hate me for saying this) that her artistry was a bit more... refined? Better quality? Something that didn't look like scribbles?So while I got a lot of enjoyment from the actual stories, I got nearly none from the artwork itself.I'm still glad I bought it, so take this as you will.

Short collection of autobiographical comics about bad OK Cupid meetups, crushing on guys with beards and being a punk rock music geek. Mostly chuckles, couldn't stop laughing on one comic, liked it enough that I'll seek out her other stuff. Bechdel test: Pass. Grade: B+

I loved this zine & it really hit home. She really captured how cats can save you when your going through a rough, lonely patch. I have to have all her books now but this one is so close to my life it will always be special.

There's always something about Liz Prince's comics that touches my tiny heart. Ahh the struggles, the joy, the realness. It's like reading my life, lol. No shame.

I've never read Liz Prince before and I bought this on a whim. It was funny and the art was cute. Recommend!

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I've followed Liz's work for a while now and have been looking forward to giving this a read. A hilariously honest take on single life and dating.

While ordering Tomboy I also saw that Liz Prince had other books. I decided on this one (don't worry, I also bought all the others now that I read this one and Tomboy). And yes, until Tomboy I never heard of Liz Prince. It seems like a lot of other people knew here from years ago, either from (it seems) the internet or for her other books.This one was really funny, ok, not always. Some parts just made me roll my eyes or shake my head. I normally am not one that minds bad language, but I didn't entirely expect in here so yeah it was a bit of a shock. However that shock was over quite quickly.I have no clue if this is fiction/non-fiction. It is tagged as such, however I felt that some things were just a bit to bordering on not real. And if it is really all true, then I feel really sorry for her that she had to endure those times.The humour is a bit self-deprecating, which depending on how it is done, can mean I love it or hate it. Luckily in this case I liked it though it made me cringe at times.I loved her adventures in the trials of Ok Cupid and her trials with guys, she really has zero luck it seems. Though there were some cute guys, in the end they all turned out to be a bit weird or not really her type or some other reason.I also laughed out loud during the cat parts. She is truly a forever-alone cat lady, doing some kind of silly dance and then booping her cat on his/her nose. :)All in all I would really recommend this book to people, it is funny, however you will have to love self-deprecating humour and you also need to like the subject or have similar feelings towards dating. I know I did, some things that Liz did are things I did, or things that I felt (like the fact lots of her friends have someone they love).

Cute book, although after I ordered it I ended up meeting someone.... Still, I can totally relate to Liz Prince's humor and love her drawing style!

Une série d'anecdotes sur la vie amoureuse de l'auteur sous forme de BD.Vraiment drôle.Par contre ça se lit très vite.