# Webcartoonist's depiction of her own nervous breakdown

- By: Ellipsis Hana Stephens
- Date: 2014-05-08
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/b9/0a/8f/b90a8fefa229c7b695b5b993d3b5db9a.jpg
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Webcartoonist%27s_depiction_of_her_own_nervous_breakdown.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Webcartoonist%27s_depiction_of_her_own_nervous_breakdown.jpg/1920px-Webcartoonist%27s_depiction_of_her_own_nervous_breakdown.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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…