Barking

"Alix Otto is having a very bad day. Easily her worst so far. A year since they fished her friend's body from the river, she finds herself hounded, haunted and driven to the brink. Caught in a situation she can't explain, Alix is handed over to the professionals and sectioned, left alone in a labyrinthine system with her delusions running wild. Barking is a tale of grief, madness and the ghosts that haunt us"--

Publisher Marketing: " Barking is everything comics should strive to be . . . a powerful and haunting metaphor for mental health, and the human condition, that you'll never forget." -- Jeff Lemire, Essex County, Sweet Tooth Review Quotes : "Sullivan's Barking is tangible and filled with profound empathy. It's a labor of love, a years-long effort to render those complicated tangles of pain and loss into something shareable, understandable -- not just clinically but in a visceral, deeply felt way." -- Kate Kowalski, Doomrocket Review Quotes : "This is an incredibly dark story, beautifully told. From the tumultuous opening scene to the last splash page, authentic, raw emotion jumps off the pages, offering a small glimpse into a very personal struggle." -- Comicon Publisher Marketing : Loopy . . . cuckoo . . . stark raving. . . . When the depression and grief Alix feels over the death of her friend overwhelm her, she's institutionalized. But inside a psychiatric ward, things don't get better for her - now she has nowhere to get away from her rapidly-spiraling thoughts. As Alix navigates disinterested attendants, group therapy, and isolation, she must build herself a new equilibrium and tame the black dog of her depression. Inspired by her own struggles with mental health, Lucy Sullivan tells a powerful, emotional story about the problems that sometimes overwhelm us all - and the failures in the mental health system we depend on.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 124 | Publication Date: 2024-02-27