I Hope This Helps offers an emergency dose of laughter in book
form. Tommy Siegel’s debut essay and comics collection is the perfect
pandemic gift—an uplifting, topical, and deeply funny view of millennial
culture, phone addiction, and coping with the extreme weirdness of
21st-century life.
Tommy Siegel's debut book collection includes 200+ pages of comics, essays, and extremely helpful guides to coping with 21st-century panic. With comics titled “Choose your social anxiety coping mechanism” and “What your coffee drink of choice says about you,” I Hope This Helps offers clever and sardonic commentary on our social media-driven culture, as well as a series of devastatingly funny relationship comics starring his popular Candy Hearts characters.
Tommy Siegel’s comics began as doodles in the back of a van as a touring
rock musician, and quickly earned a viral global fanbase and shout-outs
from cultural heavyweights including Ringo Starr, Tim Heidecker, Vic
Berger, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. With a perfect balance of absurd
humor and insightful writing, I Hope This Helps outlines the
journey from the author’s earliest "van doodles" all the way to the
socially-distanced awkwardness of the present day.