Told in the first person, it offers diary-like entries from an anonymous narrator who is undergoing a nervous breakdown and struggling to hold together a failing relationship. Julie Delporte’s Everywhere Antennas is a deeply affecting, sparely constructed novel, equal parts Walden and The Bell Jar. Everywhere Antennas by Julie Delporte, translated by Helge Dascher His first love suffers a head explosion, the football team wants him dead and he got an F in English. Not only does he need to deal with things like pondering suicide and questioning his sexual identity, but he’s also got these emo super powers that only seem to bring destruction and disaster, causing everyone to hate him more than they already do. Poor Emo Boy - he’s unpopular, unloved and has no family. The Don Depresso comics series deals with depression as well as other recurring themes, such as drug use and abuse, technology (particularly Linux and open source software), dating and relationships, and what it’s like to be an American in the 21st century. This book contains a collection of almost all the Don Depresso comic strips created from March through September of 2012, along with commentary. Don Depresso by Ruji Chapnikĭon Depresso is a depressed freelance writer who does a lot of drugs and pines for his ex-girlfriend. Through the lens of his own near suicide, he shows other sufferers that the real miracle of life isn’t found in perfection, it’s in our ability to heal and accept the dark parts of ourselves. Now, in his first book, he smashes the silence surrounding what it’s like to be young, male, and depressed in a culture that has no place for that. On the inside, though, the pain and shame of depression were killing him. From the outside his life looked perfect. Star athlete, ace student, and life of the party: in short, he was every parent’s dream.

Kevin Breel burst into the public’s awareness when at 19 his TED talk became a worldwide phenomenon. Boy Meets Depression: Or, Life Sucks And Then You Live by Kevin Breel bria royal’s Black Girl Mania: The Graphic Novel uses afro-indigenous futurism and comic book conventions to highlight one of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of bipolar disorder – mania.Ģ.

What if your magic is your mania?: Struggling to stay afloat off the coast of the last habitable landmass on the planet, Géminis Castores makes a garden ‘discovery’ that could secure her a SPOT for generations to come – until a psychological split turns out to be both the brink and bane of her success.

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