To coincide with
appearing on a Mental Health and Comic Books panel at this months
Melksham Comic Con, I have been beavering away on a limited print run
of my anxiety comic Worry Wart!
For launch at Melksham Comic Con,
Worry Wart Vol#1 will collect the current comics as they appear here
alongside all the original blog entries, guest art and haikus from
some of the heroes of UK indie comics and never before seen pages! It
has been brilliant revisiting these pages, sprucing them up for print
and reading all the plans I had!
Worry Wart was the
making of me.
I found it so difficult
to deal with my diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder on my own.
Without this comic I would have surely descended into further
maddening fright. I found it so helpful to remove myself from the
full time fret that is anxiety and focus on making cute little
cartoons instead. Drawing them took those thoughts out of my head and
stored them on paper for all time. I now have a catalogue of comics
proving just how far I have made it!
It is so deeply
important to me to share these. I gained so much support simply
through the act of 'confessing' through these comics.
Anxiety is a
frightening and seriously lonely condition. If this book makes just
one person feel less alone then it is truly worth it ^_^
I am so excited to finally print this book and continue working on plans to bring the tale to a close!
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