Comic – Growing Pains

Mental Health in Comics

For the capstone project of my undergraduate degree, I created a 20-page comic exploring my lived experience of my mental health. This was to be published as a zine, and later as a risograph-printed book, and used as a resource for the people who come into the youth clinic I visited in my hometown.

This was a soul-bearing tale that was difficult to live through and difficult to write about, and has received praise from readers at Wellington, Kāpiti, and Whanganui Zinefest, at Pegasus Books and Graphic Comics Store and the Wellington City Library, and exhibited at the End of Year Exhibition at Wellington University.