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Brain Shoodles – Managing Depression And Anxiety One Doodle At A Time

Brain Shoodles is a new Kickstarter project looking to create a zine about one persons method of managing and understanding feelings of depression and anxiety through the use of art and comics formats. Emily B. Owen tell us about the project here,

Shoodles (a portmanteau of s**t doodles) was never meant to be a comic. It started as my way of trying to make sense of my thoughts and one day, while feeling unusually cavalier, I posted some on twitter. It took  quite a while to get the collection together, such is the nature of anxiety and depression, but here it is. My aim when compiling the zine was to make it accessible and relatable, and hopefully by sharing my experience someone out there reading it might feel less alone.

Brain Shoodles is a 28 page A5 black and white zine printed by the ever-excellent Comic Printing UK on 120gsm silk recycled paper. It's written and drawn by me, with caption letters by the ubiquitous Rob Jones. There's even a foreword by Worry Wart's Dani M. Abram.

Rewards include a copy of the zine, a signed copy of the zine, an A4 colour print by Jim Bampfield, a personalised postcard, one of the original Brain Shoodles pages, the original art for the cover or you can even have the whole book dedicated to you. Plus every backer gets their name on the thank you page.

The Kickstarter target was reached in 3 hours, but there's still plenty of time to get involved. The campaign is running until 10th June and there are stretch goals being added with each target being hit.

There's still five more days to support the project and help this project, which could help others with their own mental health relationship. You can support the Kickstarter here!

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