Oh, Hi holds a mirror up to the world. In cartoons of animals doing human things & in cartoons of jokes & gags & in cartoons depicting daily idiosyncrasies, Jake Gillespie reflects the world, not to show its horrors & uglinesses—we all know those well enough—but to remind us of our surprising joys & wonderful awkwardnesses.
Oh, Hi assures us, in its self-deprecatingly quiet way, that we are all in this together, that we can connect through the little exhalations of laughs, that we can connect through the goofs & gags, that we can connect. That there's space for us. —Mathias Svalina