It felt like looking into a mirror with each page I read and I got really caught up (so much so that I burned my dinner) and honestly I didn't expect to be so influenced by Zoe's story. I very deliberately don't read enough of the things to know whether that level of reflexiveness is common – certainly crippling levels of self-awareness are a mainstay of the genre – but I found this one much more engaging than most because I've seldom seen it done with quite such a combination of artistry and exasperation. Zoe Thorogood’s It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth has affected me, I think it is marvelous, and now I am passing it along through this review that might affect you.

Način na koji se naracije, likovi, stilovi, tokovi misli i radnje odvijaju i smenjuju je kao da je istresla moj mozak na papir.This book is a very beautiful/ugly and unusual exploration of the polar opposite idea - that all that matters is how you feel. It follows the author during six months of her life as she struggles with suicidal depression, meaning that there isn’t really a storyline, as the point is to simply show what it is like in her head during that time. Thorogood taps into sensation and the way that it is experienced in a way that is unlike anything I’ve seen before.

Some parts had depth but it felt like much of it was very surface level, which is understandable considering the subject and the freshness of it.Still, once I was past that, even I'm not (quite) a heartless enough pedant not to feel something from the progression through "I don't want to kill myself because he left me. Following the release of her well-received debut graphic novel, The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott , Thorogood finds that artistic success is no cure for lifelong depression, which she draws as a looming Babadook-like monster. That Thorogood portrays all this in a graphic vernacular that we not so much read as absorb only makes it all the more powerful.

In this autobiographical graphic novel, creator Zoe Thorogood offers an honest look at what her depression feels like and how it affects her life and her relationships with others.See also: "It's a comic, for Christ's sake – can't you monologue while fighting giant space worms or something?

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) -- "I'm in a codependent relationship with my own work," Thorogood worries in her raw and relentlessly imaginative graphic memoir, which bristles with self-awareness of the ample pitfalls of its genre. She chronicles six months of her life, including going to a convention and meeting/staying with an American artist she has kind of idealized and developed a crush on.A robot devoid of any emotion who understands everything that happens around you, yet you don't care about any of it. from the art mediums changing consistently, to the story telling, everything in this little memoir was phenomenal. It doesn't always take a traumatic event for people to have thoughts of wanting things to end, permanently , and Zoe doesn't shy away from that. I've read a lot of comics (and other) memoirs lately about depression, but none quite as lively and inventive as this.