Breakup Girl 0.5

June 1996. Breakup Girl first hits the streets/shelves as the super-narrator of the book He Loved Me, He Loves Me Not: A Guide to Fudge, Fury, Free Time, and Life Beyond the Breakup (Avon), written by Lynn Harris and designed and illustrated by Chris Kalb (who share a brownstone, a dream, and a totally platonic relationship). Breakup Girl's balance of larger-than-life powers and real-life experience give the text a consistent, authoritative-yet-quirky voice and embody the book’s mission: to help people going through a breakup cry until they laugh.

Breakup Girl 1.0

1997. Reader and press response to the book and character — along with growing media demand for Lynn as a relationships pundit — leads Chris and Lynn to believe that two dimensions are not enough for our hero. Chris itches to create ongoing comic adventures; Lynn itches to offer interactive advice.

Result: the launch of BreakupGirl.com in November, addressing all aspects of relationships with a weekly advice column, a monthly cartoon adventure, and excerpts from the book.

November 1998: The team launches the monthly variety show "Breakup Girl LIVE" at New York City's Gotham Comedy Club.

Breakup Girl 2.0

1999. In January, breakupgirl.com’s content goes from weekly to daily, adding seven new areas — and one and a half new staff members -- all within the confines of one Brooklyn brownstone and two other jobs. Also:

"Breakup Girl LIVE" celebrates its one-year anniversary.

Oxygen Media, Inc. inquires about acquiring Breakup Girl and co. as the main relationships content for the network.

Breakup Girl 3.0

Breakup Girl's relationship with Oxygen gets serious. Chris, Lynn, and Betsy leave their brownstone for Oxygen's Chelsea studio, hiring a new senior producer and an additional animator on the way. They expand the site, incorporating navigable advice archives and other new features they'd only been able to dream about before.