Liverpool based youth organisation Comics Youth have published a Mental Health Comic Book Anthology, developed by lived experienced Young Adults.
Comics Youth seeks to give marginalised young adults with lived experience of mental ill-health a voice through sequential storytelling in their upcoming book, Mind Over Margins, a graphic medicine comic book publication.
This anthology comic is set to release on World Mental Health Day, October 10th, 2022, and includes the creative comic contributions of 17 marginalised young comic creators.
Funded by the Baring Foundation, the project aimed to not only shine a light on realistic mental health discourse from the eyes of marginalised youth, but to also provide equitable commissioning opportunities for young talent in a sector that is difficult to break into.
Marginalised groups such as LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, ethnically diverse and chronically ill young adults are more likely to face mental health problems than the wider population, with trans young adults, in particular, facing increased rates of depression and anxiety.
Mind Over Margins is available for via their website
Booksellers can purchase through contacting hi@comicsyouth.co.uk