Matthew Inman, the brain behind The Oatmeal, is to me pure internet magic. His artistic style mixed with his dry sense of humor and self-deprecating style makes my heart happy. A man who has never met me knows me better than most people. See below. 
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Like most of my favorite coloring books, this one: tells a story, has small very detailed pictures to color, and large easy to color (and easy for kids to color) pages as well. I used my three “go-to” utensils for this review. My prisma watercolor markers, prisma scholar colored pencils and my gel pens. Let’s see how each looks, shall we?
I love how my markers looked on the page. The color saturation is amazeballs. However, the page didn’t like how my markers sat on it.
But, I knew starting out that this paper wasn’t going to stand up to the prisma markers and that’s OK.This book features double sided pages, so I knew that bleed through was going to be a real thing. If you plan on using markers on this book, make sure to put a piece of cardboard between pages, the bleed through went to the next page as well.
First of all: shark. Second of all: shark. Seriously, these pages love my prisma scholar pencils. They color very smooth and the saturation is nice. I didn’t have to push hard to get those colors, which saved my arthritic hands and allowed me to color THE WHOLE PAGE.
I was a little nervous the gel pens might bleed through as well, but happily, they didn’t. The best part is that the pages absorbed the gel pens and then dried fast. No smearing, so bleeding.
404 Not Found by The Oatmeal is a must have in your coloring book arsenal. You can order it here. And you should, because it’s the bee’s knees of coloring.
