This was the last strip of 2016. Given the global mood it didn’t really warrant one of those positive feel happy strips but more of a grumble.  Not every year can be a good year, and sometimes we have to slog it out through the miserable ones. But the good news is we did make it another year, and I’m glad to be doing these comics, and I’m ( Read more... )

Uggh. Christmas. I’m fortunate enough to be in Japan so I don’t feel the Christmas pressure as I did in the past, but reading my feeds from friends and random people on the internet it hasn’t gone away in my absence. I made the mistake of going back to Canada in the winter about five years ago and never again. It’s a great source of stress for ( Read more... )

This is a strip I did back in August but I was never really happy with the art so I redid the panel. I think the sister reminded me too much like Melania Trump when I first drew the panel.

One thing I read about when people talk about suicide and depression is that how non-depressive people can’t understand how depressed people can’t understand ( Read more... )

When I got to this strip, I realized I messed up on the previous one - Mrs. Shibata was shown in the last panel naked, when in the story I had written she was supposed to be wearing a bra. The bra was going to be a plot point later on, so I had to change some things in the story to accommodate. For example in this strip she is naked in every panel ( Read more... )

This is one of the worrying aspects of depression, when things that are supposed to make you feel happy just don’t. Or you feel good but it doesn’t last, the feeling of happiness passes far more quickly than it should. In my position, it made me double guess and triple guess the good things in my life because good things never ever felt all that ( Read more... )

This strip goes back to a character who has problems having her illness being taken seriously because her appearance does not fit the part. I didn’t come out and say it as direct as I should last time, but it needs to be said. If you don’t fit the stereotype of a depressed person, you are often overlooked. And with depression being a primarily ( Read more... )

holy fucking shit

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Things were a little negative on the strip lately, and it had been more death-focused than usual, so this strip became a reminder (to me at least) that depression can be manageable, and how understanding is so important. It is pretty common to follow up a strip on suicide with one with a more positive message just to keep my head above water. ( Read more... )

Occasionally when I was doing Sexy Losers I would try to shake things up a bit, to try to create new situations for possible comedy. Not everything was successful, and occasionally I would begin something I would never finish (much like Sexy Losers itself). As drawing the strip became more difficult, I started to abandon more and more. Recently I ( Read more... )

This post may be a little confusing. Most strips in depression comix tend to be able to stand on their own, but with this character’s thread, it follows a story and knowing what happened earlier may be necessary to figure out what’s going on. In this series, the female (who doesn’t have depression) finds herself in a relationship controlled by the ( Read more... )