swordplay by lamplight

swordplay by lamplight. PTSD comix the first. 8x10. pen, marker, photoshop.

One point perspective assignment
+ poorly worded text messages from needy suitors
+ less-than-groovy personal history
= PTSD comix the first.

Complex PTSD: I has it. Even after all these years, even with all the reading and the therapy and the processing and the relatively normal life they’ve given me, this stuff is still there to be triggered. It is not much fun. In fact, it tends to knock me sideways for a few days whenever it happens. Thankfully I’ve learned ways to deal – like turning my occasional 3 a.m. freakouts into school assignments, for one.

I call this “the first” because drawing this one made me realize there could be more of these – that there are more, that I’ve kind of been composing them in my head for a while without noticing. Still in the early stages of dreaming this up, and it’s joining a long list of projects that poke at me for attention, so I don’t know how quickly this will happen or in what form. But, much like the PTSD itself, it’s there waiting for me.

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