“I think the older you get, and I am very old, the more you see that being in love and breaking up have a lot in common. Love is hard. Breaking up is hard. Love is dramatic. Breaking up is Dramatic. Which makes me think that a lot of the questions you have about breaking up might be better thought of as questions about the nature of love you have with this girl.”

Freddy is a teenager in love with Laura Dean. Unfortunately Laura Dean keeps breaking up with Freddy and that makes Freddy a mess. She questions everything about love and relationships and in the process loses herself and her friends. She decides to ask help from advice columnist Anne Vice.

There are fun and fluffy graphic novels, and graphic novels with amazing drawings and there are graphic novels that are just merely brilliant. This one, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me is everything of the above and more. The drawings are mere art pieces in black and pink. Yes pink. And I love the color pink. The message is messy and raw and heartbreaking but also very relatable and important. And then we have these friendships which really make this graphic novel in a realistic and lovable and sometimes funny story. I took my time with this one and because of it I really felt I knew these characters, had a few tears and a “hell yes!”, in the end. I absolutely recommend this one to everyone into graphic novels with a serious note to it and in search or a lovely read for Pride Month.