About August 2023

Sep15
by on September 15, 2023 at 9:21 am

A series of three panel comics: ON US A four panel comic, toned in pink and green. Each panel is part of a larger drawing, four hands coming together and clinking glasses, split up by the breaks in the panels. The narration, similarly broken up by the panels, reads "Four years since we were all together like this. May next time not take nearly as long." ON PERCOLATE A four panel comic, toned in pink and green. In the first panel, Emily sits in a chair in a waiting room, masked, looking at her phone as she waits. The narration begins, "There's been some big personal changes for me this month." In the second panel, Emily sits at a desk, drawing on her tablet, distracted by her phone going off with an email. The narration continues, "But I don't think I want to talk about it just yet." In the third panel, Emily, breaking the fourth wall, shrugs at the viewer. The narration continues, "Which is weird because, you know, that's the entire crux of an autobio journal comic." In the fourth panel, Emily writes in a journal, the narration becoming the words she writes on the page. It reads, "I think it all just needs to settle in myself before I share it. Maybe I'm afraid I'll jinx it, somehow." ON RESETTLING A four panel comic,s toned in pink and green. In the first panel, Emily stands hunched over, stressed and shaking. The narration begins, "My anxiety has been really, really bad this week." The first panel flows into the second, Emily's thought bubble becoming the second panel, fragmenting and glitching. The narration continues, "Like my brain is full of TV static, constantly moving but unable to resolve or focus." In the third panel, Emily sits at her desk, on the phone with a friend. The narration continues, "I'm lucky, though, to have friends who've gone through this, who can assure me this is normal, expected." In the fourth panel, Emily's friend Luke is shown, talking to Emily over a bluetooth headset in his truck. He says "take care of yourself, ok?" to which Emily replies "will do." The narration concludes, "Sometimes it just has to get worse before it gets better."

Thanks as always for reading, and apologies for the missed update last week: the day job threw a wrench into things, and I’m trying my best to dig out from it all. Next week should be a normal SV update[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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