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Emm Roy
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Illustrator & cartoonist. She/her
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On climbing out of a hole.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: "You're climbing out of a hole. It's hard, but you're doing it." Panel 2: "You wonder how much you could accomplish if you weren't in a hole." Panel 3: "You will get to find out. You will not stay stuck in that hole." Panel 4: "You survived in that hole. You'll thrive outside of it."
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I'm choosing to trust that I still have a lot more to give, and that it's not over for me yet.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: "Dreams change. People walk away for all kinds of reasons." Panel 2: "But I can't stand the idea of giving up on what I want because of what someone else did to me." Panel 3: "I won't let someone else decide what I can do or who I get to be." Panel 4: "If one day, I walk away, it will be on my own terms, after I've accomplished everything I wanted."
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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4-panel comic. Panel 1: "I practice caring about what happens to me." Panel 2: "I practice caring if I live or die." Panel 3: "I practice wanting to live, and still, depression drags me down." Panel 4: "But depression drags me down, and still, I practice wanting to live."
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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tw: abuse
4-panel comic. Panel 1: "I have seen you help people; I have seen you be kind." Panel 2: "And I have asked myself why you couldn't be that person for me too." Panel 3: "I have asked myself if I was the problem, if I deserved your abuse." Panel 4: "But I'm a person, not a problem, and I don't deserve abuse. I deserve as much kindness as everybody else."
November 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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tw: emotional abuse.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: "You've spent so long trying to put me down to feel better about yourself" Panel 2: "but I don't think you're small. You do. You hate yourself so much that you only feel big when others feel small" Panel 3: "I hope you learn to love yourself" Panel 4: "but it's not my job to become smaller so you feel better. Nothing you do will ever make me feel small because I know I'm not"
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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tw: abuse
9-panel comic. Panel 1: "It hurts to be unable to stop your abuser from harming others" Panel 2: "And it's good that you want to help others" Panel 3: "You are a good person, and nobody can ever take that away from you" Panel 4: "But you have to remember that the abuser is the one caushing harm, not you" Panel 5: "You aren't responsible for their actions" Panel 6: "You're not letting people down by being unable to save everybody" Panel 7: "Nobody can save everybody. It's too big a task for one person" Panel 8: "The things you do to make the world a better place are already enough" Panel 9: "It's okay to save yourself and focus on your own healing. You matter too"
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Certain things make it really difficult to think clearly. It's not your fault. Just do your best. You can do this.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: "It's normal that it's hard to think clearly when you're under extreme stress." Panel 2: "You're still extremely clever and capable." Panel 3: "You will regain the ability to think clearly." Panel 4: "And you will figure everything out."
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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3-panel comic. Panel 1: "It's really hard to be in a bad situation, and not know how or when it will end." Panel 2: "Hang in there, and do what you can to be as okay as you can be." Panel 3: "It will end eventually. It will be okay."
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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❤️
6-panel comic. Panel 1: "It's okay that you made a mistake." Panel 2: "It won't ruin your life, and it doesn't make you a bad person." Panel 3: "Everyone makes mistakes. Things still work out." Panel 4: "You will find a way to make things work." Panel 5: "You will still have the life that you want." Panel 6: "It will be okay."
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I'm proud of you for surviving. It's wonderful that you're here.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: "You did what you do had to do to survive." Panel 2: "It's easy to torture yourself with what you could have done differently." Panel 3: "But consider this: what you did worked. You are still here. and maybe if you had not done it, you would not be." Panel 4: "So I'm glad you did what you did. I'm glad you're alive, no matter what it took for you to get here."
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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4-panel comic. Panel 1: "Ignoring problems doesn't make them go away" Panel 2: "But spending all your time thinking about something that's hurting you isn't good for you" Panel 3: "The world is big and beautiful, and you deserve to enjoy it" Panel 4: "You deserve to be happy"
October 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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4-panel comic. Panel 1: What a wonderful victory Panel 2: to encounter something that would have broken you a year ago Panel 3: and find that you are fine Panel 4: that you are strong and you will manage
October 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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It's still okay to want an apology.

It's just that sometimes we don't get what we deserve, and we find ways to be okay anyway.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: I don't need an explanation or an apology to be fine. I don't need to reverse time or fall into another world where people treated me better. Panel 3: I'm good. I'm good at hanging on, and I'm good at rebuilding. Panel 4: I'm exactly who I need to be to get through everything the world throws at me."
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The nice thing about finally being out of the worst depression of my life is that I'm really grateful I'm alive. The not-so-nice thing is that I'm terrified I'm alive.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: I'm okay. I am. / Panel 2: But I was not okay for so long that I don't know who I am when I'm okay anymore. / Panel 3: My old life is gone, and I don't know what to do or who I'm going to be. / Panel 4: It's terrifying, but exciting too. I'm still here, and so much is still possible for me. I'm so lucky!
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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There are still good things & those things still matter.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: "I often feel that everything is pointless." Panel 2: "And I'm so sad these days, but" Panel 3: "Somewhere, someone is trying again even though they're afraid. Somewhere, someone is taking the time to truly understand someone else." Panel 4: "And it all means so much."
August 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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4-panel comic. Panel 1: "You do not want to try anymore" Panel 2: "You are tired, and the last time you tried, someone hurt you" Panel 3: "Try anyway" Panel 4: "Because you deserve to be okay"
August 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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This world is so terrible so much of the time, but it's still such a blessing to meet people and love them and be good to them. I'm glad I'm here, and I'm glad you're here too.
4-panel comic. Panel 1: "In another world, I tell you how you made me feel, and it changes something." Panel 2: "There is a world in which you're sorry" Panel 3: "But this is not that world, and I can live with that" Panel 4: "Everyone I love is in this world, and it is glorious. So you can keep not caring. You can get away with everything. And I'll keep caring and loving people, and it will be enough for me."
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Did I mention I love books? And talking about books? Anyway, what kind of books do you like?
4-panel comic. Panel 1 - Meeting Someone New: I ask someone "So what kind of books do you like?" Panel 2 - Flirting: I ask "Do you want to borrow a book?" Panel 3 - Trying To Make Friends: I ask two people "Do you want to start a book club?" Panel 4: Having Friends: I say "Thank you for letting me talk about books again"]
July 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I hope you're okay.
9-panel comic. Panel 1: "Are you okay?" Panel 2: "What you did to me wasn't okay" Panel 3: "And I will never understand why you did it" Panel 4: "But none of us can be reduced to the bad things we've done" Panel 5: "You really hurt me. That will always be true" Panel 6: "But all the good things about you are still true too" Panel 7: "So this is just to say that I hope you're okay" Panel 8: "I hope you never do what you did to me to anyone else ever again" Panel 9: "But I hope you're happy"
July 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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yet another comic about depression
6-panel comic. Title: "I wish an out-of-office message would float above me when my depression gets too severe." Panel 1: "Please note that my ability to be okay is currently on vacation" Panel 2: "I don't know when it will be back" Panel 3: "Try again next week. My last episode lasted five years, but try again next week. Maybe next week will be better" Panel 4: "I left my body behind. If it's an emergency, it might stare at you" Panel 5: "Please understand" Panel 6: "Please please please"
July 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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4-panel comic illustrated with brown trees and pink flowers against green grass and blue skies. Panel 1: "Every day he gets smaller in my mind" Panel 2: "And there is more room for beauty" Panel 3: "Soon he will be gone" Panel 4: "And there will be art everywhere I look"
June 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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tw: abuse.
4-panel comic illustrated with blue abstract doodles. Panel 1: "It was as though he created a new reality just for us." Panel 2: "There was the real world that everyone knew about" Panel 3: "and the second secret world where he could hurt me as much as he wanted and no one noticed." Panel 4: "But I'll heal. I will. He does not get to destroy me. My life is still mine to live and to cherish."
June 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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a comic about surviving and rebuilding.
4-panel comic illustrated with abstract pink, yellow, purple, and white doodles. Panel 1: "I want to know what I can achieve when no one is hurting me." Panel 2: "I want to know who I can be when I don't have to use up all my energy trying to survive." Panel 3: "There is a world outside of your violence, and that's where I live now." Panel 4: "And I'm as afraid as you wanted me to be, but I don't feel small. I feel alive. I feel like I'm finally back in the world and it's beautiful."
June 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Diary comic, May 31, 2025.
4-panel comic. Each panel is illustrated with abstract flower-like and geometric shapes. Panel 1: "I'm glad it's over" Panel 2: "I'm glad I didn't get what I wanted" Panel 3: "I'm glad I'm alive" Panel 4: "Despite myself"
May 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I would, I would
2-panel drawing of black trees against a blue, purple, and red abstract background. Caption: "I would let you win, I would get on my knees and beg"
May 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM