Hmm... that's a good question. I don't like to think I do something never done before, because 3 years after I started Saudade I read Heartstopper and it touches on similar topics and I had mixed feelings 'bout it. But I believe I try to be more... bold? crude? in your face? about mental illness and those things. I try to make it too real sometimes (i have an arc coming that oh boy...), but it's my way of telling, well, my own story. With pinches of wholesomeness I didnt have lmao. In the prologue you can see pretty in your face the vibe I'll have in some parts of the comic, and I know it pushes people away from my work, but I'm doing something I believe in and am pretty passionate about.
My intent with it all is show that even in bad places, we can find something good; that when you're neurodivergent it'll always have hard sometimes, but we can make it through the darkness; that people can love us even if we think we're broken.
With first hand experience with all the sh*t mental illness put us through, I want to tell our story. How we can survive. How we can find happiness among the people who love us and begin to learn how to love ourselves too.
I can talk about my comic for ages xD I just love it so much, even with all it's mistakes and defects. I'm far from perfect and I can make some out of context scenes that only makes sense on my head.
Yeah, so everyone is linking their work so I may do the same haha. If you are +16 (preferably +18) and want to check it out, it'd make me happy. :3