Best Comics We Read October December 2019
Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons by Chuck Mullin In this collection of four-panel comics, Chuck Mullin explores anxiety and mental health with both vulnerability and humor. The book is split into three sections (“Negativity,” “Relationships.” and “Positivity”), depicting the multi-faceted experience of living with anxiety. I love Mullin’s choice to depict her characters as pigeons—animals that are widely disdained but continue to quietly live their lives—and found that it not only brought some lightness to a potentially heavy topic (the illustrations are just so dang adorable!...