Webcartoonist's depiction of her own nervous breakdown
2014-05-08
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/b9/0a/8f/b90a8fefa229c7b695b5b993d3b5db9a.jpg
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
In 2014, webcomic creator Ellipsis Hana Stephens (known as Tarol Hunt "Thunt" Stephens at the time)[1], best known for creating Goblins, suffered a nervous breakdown and went on hiatus. After two months, her wife persuaded her to draw what she was feeling; she produced this image.
She subsequently described it as follows:[2]
"So a lot of you have already seen the picture. The thing I drew when my brain had more shaky cam than Man of Steel. Drawing this was a huge help at the time, since communicating just… wasn’t something I could do and I needed to express myself in some way. I honestly think things would have been a lot worse, had Danielle [her wife] not told me to draw “what you’re feeling”. Since this picture was not a business decision, I’m applying an open license to it, so… do whatever you like with it. Make posters, t-shirts, crop circles… anything you like.
So… what does it mean? Mostly, I don’t know. I think the doll is supposed to represent me? I’m not sure. I just started drawing this image of a broken doll and the rest of the picture grew out from that. She’s got heavy make-up on the right side of her face and no pupil in her right eye. Why? I don’t know. I have…
