From the lofts of New York City to the traffic jams of LA and beyond—Emmet Truxes’s cartoons brilliantly poke fun at our hobbies and misfortunes in a vein similar to that of the New Yorker. Featuring all-too-relatable depictions of millennial milestones and struggles (squeezing into cramped apartments, finding true love on dating apps, nailing the perfect selfie), You Look Better Online is full of self-deprecating good fun for anyone obsessed with their smartphone. You Look Better Online does what only the best cartoons can: it gently chides its audience while insightfully and accurately depicting their lives.

Miriam-Webster defines ‘millennial’ as “a person born in the 1980s or 1990s,” but they are more commonly known as device-dependent, social media-addicted young people. But it is internationally agreed that their most distinctive characteristic is their life support-like attachment to their smart phones. Truxes’s cartoons hit the nail on the head when it comes to this technology addiction and will ring true in any country where large swaths of the population own a smart phone. Whether readers laugh at their own expense or laugh at the expense of a younger generation, You Look Better Online will hit home with everyone.

 

Emmet Truxes, the mastermind behind the Instagram account @BrooklynCartoons, is all too familiar with the absurdities and idiosyncrasies of the millennial age. Raised in Connecticut, with degrees from both Princeton and Harvard, this architectural visionary by day is also an expert observer: from New York to Los Angeles, he stockpiles the definitive moments of the Snapchat generation and turns them into meme-ready cartoons.