My Friend, the Dark - A Silent Graphic Novel

My Friend, the Dark  is a silent graphic novel that acts as a metaphor for anorexia, something that I battled with when I was younger. The story is about a girl who befriends the Dark, a personified body of shadow that appears through the mirror in her room, gifting her with tiny numbered sheep. This is a play on the idea of  ‘counting sheep to fall asleep’, an initial comfort that she begins to obsessively control as they slowly begin to appear as calories in her food to be counted. The reflection of the girl follows the Dark into the mirror as she begins a deeply introspective journey to recovery.

Here are some examples of finished pages from across the book.