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UPDATED May 5: I added a new first page and tweaked a couple things on a few other pages. With the extra page, we're now up from 87 to 88 pages! A comparison page showing how I changed one page is at the very bottom of this post now, if you're into that kinda thing.

Content Advisory: This chapter depicts  violence, depression, and suicidal ideation

(Start on Day One or catch up on the previous chapter, Day Six)



Continue on to The Interlude

These last two chapters were really hard to make. I don't think it was because of the content matter, since all the previous ones were about the same topics. But, yeah, really struggling to translate my Space Camp notes into the comics lately. 

UPDATED May 5:
My general rule is to just forge ahead and not start making edits on these chapters yet, not until I get to the end of the first draft of this book. BUT! I mislaid some of my notes and I realized this chapter really did need the new first page based on them. So I added it and then had to re-number all the following pages. SIGH. ......Aaaaaaand since I was already making that change... certainly it couldn't hurt if I just... tweaked and spiffed up a few other things that were bugging me. The rest of the changes are really minor, except for this one.

The page formerly known as 81 just felt too open and free-floating for the moment I was trying to capture, so for the re-christened page 82 I added some panel borders to show social boundaries and coming through them. I think it shows the intimacy better now.

Ok! Now for reals! I'm not allowed to mess with these pages again until I finish the first draft of the whole book!!!

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Comments

Anonymous

Thank you so much for sharing and for being you! So much of this feels familiar and feeling seen and seeing that other humans have similar feelings and thoughts really helps. The way you drew this, the artwork, the graphical representation of thoughts and feelings is really so so amazing. Again thanks for sharing 💜

David Schwab

Just want to say how much I appreciate the inventive style of these comics and how the layout and layering of all the differently styled elements really adds to the emotional resonance. I'm in awe of the talent that can elevate text and stick figures into an artistic masterpiece.