This was so lovely. I literally never read comics/graphic novels etc. - I'm not a particularly visually-oriented person so they've never really appealed. Therefore I basically have no frame of reference and it took me a little while to get into where on the page I was looking and in what order. Once I did though, I really enjoyed it and it felt like the perfect medium for this story. It's a very quick and easy read, with what felt like just the right amount of detail. Each chapter was interspersed with an informative page or two on asexuality without overloading on the terminology, but mostly Burgess just stuck to telling their own story in a really simple and clear way. Hands down the best ace book I've come across. 

Despite the title, this is a memoir and it isn't all about asexuality - it gets into peer pressure, OCD, imperfect therapists (bizarre deification of therapists is a real pet peeve of mine), the way that mental health problems can magnify the impact of other stresses, and graduating in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and peak austerity at its cruellest. It's just the right level of grim though, and ultimately it's a wonderful story about growing up, understanding and accepting yourself, and things turning out alright in the end :)

I have so little artistic knowledge or taste that I really don't feel qualified to comment on the actual illustrations, but for what it's worth I thought they were great and the use of colour was really effective in communicating moods and mood shifts.