Capture These Things Aint Gonna Smoke Themselves: A Love/Hate/Love/Hate/Love Letter To A Very Bad Habit By Emily Flake Provided As Digital

it might help me quit, Should've known better! Now I just feel apathy for the author, So yeah.
Pros: red and black color pallete! Good illustration! Girl draws pictures of herself as awkward and pudgy yay! Has an attitude and a sense of humor yes!

Cons: sort of drifting and unpointed she doesn't end up quitting or anything, and it was short and I don't remember it so well a few weeks later.
Ah well. Unlike the author, I don't view my nicotine addiction with fond, protective attachment, I found the artwork delightful, however, A brief encounter with an older woman in a coffee shop left Emily Flake swearing she would quit smoking when she turned twentynine.
Only twentyone at the time, she had years ahead of her to kick

the habit, And then she turned twentyeight, took a good, hard look in the mirror, and knew something had to be done,

These Things Ain't Gonna Smoke Themselves is a hilarious, illustrated account of her love/hate relationship with cigarettes, from her first glorious drag to her notsofinal last puff, and everything she goes through to try to quit.
It is a funny, candid exploration of the rise and fall of cigarettes, both within Emily's own life and in society at large, tracing how smoking mutated from an encouraged form of recreation to what it is todaya nasty, unpardonable habit.
I'm not a smoker, but I liked this graphic nonfiction book about the author's love/hate relationship with cigarettes, I'm very interesting in this graphic nonfiction genre and what artists/illustrators/writers will be able to do with it, hence my interest in this book.


I reviewed this book for the St, Petersburg Times. Ugh may I never pick up another fucking cigarette again, for I love them more than god man and country but like a LOT more because realistically fuck at least man and country and who knows about god but cigarettes!! Never been a thing more awful and entrancing than cigarettes, never been a truer more horrible love.
Welldone graphic essay about Flake's relationship to cigarettes, I enjoyed it, and think she did a beautiful job illuminating the tenacious hold that nicotine has on people, Smoking is both bad for you and hilarious, Emily Flake was born in a town that featured a dancing bear fountain, a mural of ice cream eating elves, and an unnameable sense of dread.
She got out of there and became an illustrator, cartoonist, and a writer, Her cartoons and illustrations have appeared in publications all over the world, Above all, she means well, .