Roller Coaster

Year Published: 2022
Publisher: The Nib

This is to date the first and only comic I've done where there was a legal team involved. I got some really nice response to this one, which is 100% the reason why I plaster my personal problems online.

Four comic panels in full color. The author talks about how their dad was already diagnosed as manic depressive when he met their mom in the early 80s. They grew up in the 90s during the Happy Pill revolution, and their dad was on antidepressants... sometimes. Sometimes he wasn't, and that made everything worse.

Four more panels. The author talks about being hypervigilant as a child, watching their dad for signs that he was off his meds. They wonder if they would've had a relationship now if he'd taken better care of himself - their father was so often someone else. Who are they hurting, when they don't take care of themselves?

Autobiographical

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