brain (e-book)

Brain is a short comic personal project that I started in July 2020 when the pandemic situation was still new and confusing. Now it's just confusing.

Like most of the world, I was plagued with loneliness and uncertainty. There was no sense of stability in any life area. I wanted to have something to look forward to every day. A reason to wake up and keep going.

So, I started writing down my internal monologue into a comic. Just me and my brain talking. I drew the thoughts as they came to me without worrying about making sense. I wanted it to be raw hehe. Sorry in advance if it's too raw and gets a bit illegible. I'm sure you'll be able to figure out some pages if you squint long enough. :3

Initially, I had no plans of posting this publicly but then I put it out on my Patreon and felt nice reading my patrons' responses and decided to put it outside of Patreon.

I usually tend to stray away from long-term projects because the perfectionist in me makes it just so difficult. If I look back at where I started, I feel the need to fix it because I'd have newer eyes in the future whose ability to nitpick increases based on the things learned from the time I started to the time of "looking back". Sigh.

Making Brain taught me a certain kind of discipline that was missing in my life. Drawing a panel or two or many every night before bed became a nice ritual. Some nights I wouldn't feel like it but I would re-read however much of the comic I had made and would feel like making more.

It felt like I made a friend for myself whom I'd meet every night before bed to talk freely without judgment for 5 months and 4 days. Looking at the length of the comic, it might seem like a lot of time but I took it one day/one panel at a time as I wanted it to come from a place of genuineness and didn't want to force anything out of myself for the sake of it.

There are certain thoughts in this comic that I no longer have but I had them back then so they are valid. This is just me over justifying the comic haha. Ok, I think this description should suffice.

I drew the last panels of the comic on 2nd January 2021.

Hope you have a good time reading this short comic. Thank you for purchasing it if you have, I appreciate your support. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧