Heart and Brain

Heart: Do you want to do something fun?
Brain: We have to give a decent review right now.
Heart: Just give the stars and let’s watch a movie!
Brain: It shouldn’t be hasty. The graphics and lines used should be analyzed.
Heart: I enjoyed it.
*butterfly flies*
*Heart tries to get it*
Brain: The colors used were pretty limited. The way it was presented was quite–
*Heart clicks 5 stars*
Heart: ..what?
Brain: …

A funny and so relatable collection of comic strips; I really enjoyed some of them because they're SO TRUE.
This could be an awesome gift!

Cute collection of comics depicting what a brain thinks vs. what a heart desires.

This is the most accurate description of how I feel that I have read in what feels like forever and I am not sure yet how I feel about that. Easily a favourite that I will be revisiting and exploring the world of more in the future.

Perfect to remind you that there is a balance between heart and brain decisions. It's light, funny and very enjoyable.

A series of cartoon shorts on the eternal fight of heart vs. brain. And on the importance of coffee!

Like, right now I should be writing an essay and/or working out. Instead I’m lying confortably in my bed reading a graphic novel. Well, the heart wants what the heart wants :)

Its animation style is nothing special or fantastic, but its short and funny dialogs on economic, food and general aspects of life will keep you entertained for a little while. Quite good!

This is an upbeat comic with some real depth. I’m not surprised that I liked it, because I love The Awkward Yeti website. I wizzed through the book in a single sitting, but would definitely consider buying a hard copy to page through randomly. I love how it illustrates the eternal inner struggle of needs and desires and how the division between the two can be quite blurry. But mostly, it’s a fun comic that comes highly recommended.

Light, cute, funny and really great reminder that there's a balance between heart and brain. Absolutely love this book!!

Heart has my unconditional love. He’s so cute and funny and happy!

Brain reminds me of real life, so… I'm not his biggest fan. But he has a strong sense of responsibility and I admire that.

This book is very simple, but thought-provoking at the same time. I'm sure these characters will impress even the most demanding readers.

Absolutely cute and hilarious! I loved every single page. Loved the graphics and how heart is pictured as a cute kid you want to hug and Brain is pictured as the boring one. I Will run to the store to buy this when it becomes available for sure. A must read!!!

Seeing as Pixar are billions richer for portraying the moods personified by different weird critters in a girl's brain, so this comic uses a similar concept – the yin and yang of reason and logic, with the instinct and impulse that fights it. It's a great mismatch, portrayed here by a heart and a brain (both cute, spindly arms and legs but only the heart with any visual emotion), and sometimes the 'awkward yeti' they live in, with often a butterfly (feeling) for the heart to chase. If the comic does make you laugh it's because it's witty and clever. If it doesn't make you laugh it's because it's too close to the bone, or too thoughtful – but either way it's pretty much spot-on. Simplistically presented it may be, but these complex ideas and generally clever delivery make for a successful collection of the web-comic.

Nick Seluck's webcomic The Awkward Yeti has two body part characters that really stand out. Heart and Brain are often at odds, and yet the balance of the two helps to create a complete Awkward Yeti. In the new book Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection, readers are given a closer look at the two best known body parts in the Yeti universe.

Heart and Brain is an insightful collection which takes situations readers are familiar with to create a feeling of "oh yeah, I've been there." Heart is open and loves to push past the word "no" to get what it wants. Brain is full of facts and figures, often turning away from fun occasions to finish a budget sheet or inform Heart that a new TV is simply out of the question. However, neither is shown to be more important and more than once the combination of their forces is what truly stands out.

Heart and Brain is an insightful collection that is at time sad, but more often funny and worth an understanding chuckle.

Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection is available from Andrews McMeel Publishing October 20, 2015.

This was awesome!

Beautifully illustrated, amusing and ooh so true.

recommended for all fans of the theawkwardyeti.com.

I enjoyed reading these comic strips. They were so cute and I loved Heart so much! This is a great example of something simple that can be brilliant and hilarious. Everyone will enjoy this because everyone can relate to the struggle of brain vs heart. I would recommend this to everyone and I would definitely read more Awkward Yeti comic strips! *I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.*

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Brain is logical but heart is just filled with emotions. I found many coincidences in real life drawn in the book. It was fun to read and most of the time I laughed. :)

I have never been a huge fan of comic books but I do love the daily comic strips and I was very sad to see them going by the wayside. It took me a while to appreciate web comics, which are not limited to the format or schedule of newspapers. Awkward Yeti quickly became a favorite and the Heart and Brain spin off is always amusing and so so true. I've already ordered a copy for my library.

After reading Bitch Planet, I needed something to even me out a little. I absolutely heart The Awkward Yeti. I follow his stuff on Facebook and this was a collection of what is posted their and on his website. So while I had already seen most of the strips online, they are always worth another read.

Lars and his various body parts really get down to the "heart" (haha) of what motivates people. There is always a smile, a laugh and a hmm to be had in this book. It makes me wish that I was as care free as Heart but I know my own version of Brain gets in the way more often than not.

Everyone that enjoys the classic comic strip should read this book and follow The Awkward Yeti online.

Funny and accurate account of your heart versus your brain. A very likeable book.

Joining the ranks of The Oatmeal, Poorly Drawn Lines, Allie Brosh’s Hiperbole and a Half, Liz Climo collections, and it’s direct predecessor The Awkward Yeti, this cute and joyful webcomic makes the jump to a printed edition and a digital eBook.

What started as an occasional joke from The Awkward Yeti’s main character Lars (a blue, self-conscious, neurotic, barely abominable snowman), displaying the struggles between Heart and Brain, desire and reason, passion and responsibility, optimism and cynicism, ended up as an spin-off of its own.

I haven’t seen the printed edition, so I can’t comment on it. For someone who still values a nice bookshelf collection, or the ocasional funny book on the office desk, I’m sure this is a great gift (self or not). For the digital edition, the question for most of this webcomics-to-ebook is always: why will you paid for something being posted for free on a blog? Well, this is the best way to show support for the authors and help them achieve financial freedom to commit full time to something that makes them (and us) happy and rarely costs more than a couple of Starbucks visits.

Sometimes a little bit of extra content not available online would be the hook use to get you to buy the book. I haven’t been a constant reader of the webcomic, so I don’t know if this is the case. Also, the effort put by the author to curate and arrange the best comics for a condensed edition sometimes gives a better experience that going all the way back in the blog archive.

Although the quality of the drawings could improve greatly (being closer to Cyanide and Happiness or a very crude The Oatmeal) and it’s clearly more challenged by ability than style (as with Liz Climo, whose simplicity doesn’t hide a better artistry), the wonderful writing rises about it. Similar to the philosophical reflexions that Bill Watterson introduced as light dialog between Clavin and Hobbes, Nick Seluk illustrations are a simple excuse to introduce some thoughtful ideas and easy to relate pains from the modern young white collar life.

Anyway, go read a few of them in the blog. If you like them, or any of the ones mentioned at the beginning of the review, buy the book. You won’t regret it.

I absolutely LOVED this! This was so cute and so true. I finished reading this in one sitting and would highly recommend it to everyone! The humor is perfect and represents so many people, like myself. Can't wait to read more collections of this comic!

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Well... if this isn't the most accurate thing about human behavior, then I don't know what is.

In this collection we get to see Heart, Brain and Lars, the Awkward Yeti, dealing with everyday struggles, and making us see how hard it can be to do what both the brain and the heart want. They show us how Heart and Brain interact with each other and make us feel (or in this case, Lars) all kinds of different emotions. And it's all so relatable that you'll find yourself laughing out loud with almost every story.

Heart is always happy. Brain is always worried. If Heart does something, Brain is right behind it to clean up its messes. And, as adorable as Heart can be, it can get on your nerves sometimes, because acting on impulse is not always the best solution. I mean, if your heart wants you to be happy and quit your job without thinking about the consequences, then you're just going to pick up the phone and tell your boss you're never coming back, right? No biggie.

Although Brain has its own faults too! It loves overthinking and keeping poor Lars up at night, playing possible scenarios of what could go wrong in the future, or pointing out every embarrassing thing he did during the day.

This is so well done, and the best part is that anyone could see themselves in most of these situations. Oh and even Stomach makes a couple of appearances, because we all know how annoying that little rascal can be sometimes.

But there's always gonna be the one thing that both Heart and Brain agree on: pizza and coffee are awesome.

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I loved it, it was insightful and true. It was also funny and light. Something I was really hoping to find in this book.

It is great for everyone, I think everyone can relate to it.

I was just slightly disturbed by the fact that the brain didn't have any eyes, but it was still enjoyable. It's a quick and cheerful read, and can be a great gift for anyone looking for fun gift.

I am not a fan of comics but a fellow blogger recommended this book to me and I'm so glad I was able to request it. I enjoyed it so much and I laughed like I hadn't laughed with a book before. Even if it's a comic, I found it to be so relatable. Personally, I related to Heart in most of the situations presented but sometimes would relate to Brain. I think every person out there will relate to either or both of these characters.

Very funny. A great representation of the war between reason and passion. Well drawn and funny jokes that aren’t all variations on the same tired premise.

'Heart and Brain: An Awkward Yeti Collection' by Nick Seluk is a laugh out loud collection for anyone with a working heart and brain. The comics are cerebral and silly.

Poor Lars, the Awkward Yeti. He is ruled by his heart and his brain and they constantly pull him in different directions. Brain wants to save money, and heart wants to squander it on pet food (for a pet they don't own). Heart wants to chase his dreams, and brain is too pragmatic. Just when Lars wants to go to sleep, his brain is there to keep him awake with troubling thoughts like how he did on that last job interview.

It's a really hilarious collection of comics and Nick Seluk manages to find the humor that we have in balancing our brain and heart. You have to let them both take the reins sometimes, and you've got to learn when that is. You might not learn when that is with this collection, but you'll nod in agreement as you run across similar situations to the ones in your life.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

This book took me a while to get into, but once I got it, I thought it was hysterical. I think it’s a little mature for my kids, but only because they don’t have the experience to understand a lot of it, not because it’s adult material. There are a lot of the cartoons that have enough truth to them that you have to stop and think. The heart that watched the news is going to stick with me for a while.

Heart and Brain collects a number of The Awkward Yeti's comics in a single volume. If you enjoy humorous looks at the internal battles we all face daily, over everything from chocolate to work, then you will enjoy this book.

For those unfamiliar with The Awkward Yeti you can go to his site, follow him on Facebook and other platforms. If you want a sample of the type of humor those are also excellent sources.

Reviewed from an ARC made available by the publisher via NetGalley.

Heart and Brain delivers a simple yet amusing take on our internal conflicts. It's hard not to really like Heart, but Brain has some really good points too! A fun graphic novel based on the web comic.

The Awkward Yeti: Always a good time, always worth a read.