jaerick

Your comic often addresses really heavy themes like grief, loss, and major depression. Your comic The Inner Dark struck me especially - it's really alienating to be depressed around people who aren't, and to try to explain what depression feels like and how it completely takes over your life.

I'm definitely deep in the throes of my depression at the time of this writing. I used to write and draw all the time, but lately I feel no spark or enjoyment in creative work, just this complete anhedonic blah, and it ultimately just becomes something I make myself feel bad about for even trying. I remember you saying that your comics are something you often write just to feel better yourself. Do you have any advice for making the creative process therapeutic, rather than just another thing that the monster screams at you about?

I have absolutely no idea what this is and came here from /r/all, but your answers are delightful and inspiring.

If you had to sum up your mission statement, what you want your art to say to the world, in one run-on sentence, what would it be?

There are a few sequences in the TV series that are unforgettable sci fi moments for me because they make the viewer really 'feel' the same thing the characters are feeling. I think of when the Behemoth's drum starts spinning, when the Firehawk is making screaming turns to shake a target lock, and the tension when Earth's orbital defense systems are activated and we are all waiting with bated breath like the UN officials to see what happens.

Is there any sequence in the show that you as the authors feel is a perfect representation of what you imagined while writing, ripped right from the page?