When July, a girl suffering from depression, realized that her Black Dog (a personification of depression) could talk, she started a conversation and subsequently a journey to understand and defeat her depression. Along the way, she finds out about Winston Churchill, the drowning rats experiment, and how a Depression named Happie is not exactly happy. Follow the HappieInJuly Instagram for more regular content. More info: happieinjuly.wordpress.com | Instagram #HappieInJuly was meant to be a ’test’ for me to test out the effectiveness of the techniques from my visual storytelling cards. So I decided to keep the core idea of the story simple to allow for more flexibility for future development. Essentially, it is a story of how a girl learns and deals with her depression. And even though Happie is meant to be a “black dog”, he is blue for 2 reasons - 1) He is forever feeling blue, and 2) I’ve set the color palette for the comics to essentially be blue and pink (with a small dash of yellow, and hints of blacks and whites). There are still a lot of stigmas whenever we discuss “depression” and “mental health”. I’m hoping that more readers can write in to share their thoughts and experiences with depression, which I can hopefully include in future chapters. Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.
