My Friend, the Dark

My Friend, the Dark is a silent graphic novel that acts as a metaphor for anorexia, something that I battled with myself as a teenager for a couple of years. The story is about a little girl who befriends the dark, characterised bodies of shadow that appear through the mirror in her room, gifting her with tiny numbered sheep. This is a play on the counting sheep to fall asleep idea, a comfort that she begins to obsessively count and control as they begin to represent calories by appearing in her food. The girl’s reflection follows the Dark into the mirror, and she begins her deeply introspective journey to recovery. 
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A Little Egg in a Big World

A Little Egg in a Big World is a comic series about the sweet and ponderous Egg, who never hatched. Egg will face all manners of social and political scenarios, as she interprets the facts of life in this witty, cynical and thought provoking narrative, to find out what it's really all about. 

In the first comic, Egg will learn about faith and religion, in all different manners of speaking. She will first meet the Onyons, little yellow folk who believe, unequivocally, that their god is inside a cardboard box. As the story unfolds, Egg will learn about organised religion and the varying extremities, morals and beliefs within different religions. She will learn about spirituality and faith aside from the religious perspective, absorbing and observing in a quest to discover herself.

Bread Box Comics

Bread Box Comics is a thematic, comic collective from Edinburgh College of Art, posting a new comic every Wednesday based on our monthly theme. Our aim is to celebrate a range of styles, breaking away from any preconceived ideas about what a comic should look like. Here are some examples of my own contributions. 

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