I don’t know how many of you there are, but I appreciate each and every one of you. Anxiety makes it very difficult to function in a normal way. But this comic is important to me, and you are important[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I put a comma after the salutation because the sun and I are friendly. If this had been a formal letter, say if I had been seeking employment from the sun, I would have used a colon. For more on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Strap in, America, we can do this.
“Long, Long, Long” is a George Harrison song. It still means a lot to me. The whole White Album does, but that song in particular. The friend depicted here, I should point out, was a good and kind boy and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yes, this one uses the art from a previous comic. And yes, there are often voices in my head telling me negative things about my writing, and about me as a writer, and about how I’ve wasted my life and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t know why I’m like this. Why am I like this?
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In my case at least, getting past adolescence was a big part of the battle. And I mean really past, like in my late twenties.
The words thyme and dysthymia are not related, it seems. According to Merriam-Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, the former is from the Greek thymon, which refers to fumigation, I assume because the herb was burned, and the latter is from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love drawing Expressionless Teenage Eyeteeth. Of course, I was a girl, and probably even after Columbine people didn’t assume that stone-faced, greasy-haired girls were going to shoot up schoolyards. Also, my parents and the adults who ran my high[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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