After the success of last year’s Over-Inkers anthology editor R. E. Burke has put together a second volume of the mental health awareness comics collection this year. This time the theme is ‘A Helping Hand’ and there’s a notably strong line-up of newer voices on the comics self-publishing scene involved. It’s been a tough couple of months for comics crowdfunders with a swathe of excellent projects really squeezing every last penny out of backers. We can vouch for this on two fronts though. Firstly R. E. Burke is one of the extended BF family of creatives to have trod the imaginary corridors of Broken Frontier Towers. And secondly because the first issue was so good – check out our review of Over-Inkers #1 here at BF last year for more details.
Over-Inkers #2 ‘A Helping Hand’
Edited by R. E. Burke
Paperback A5, on recycled paper
£15
Cover art by Ella Field (@marmaladlee)
Over-Inkers #2, ‘A Helping Hand’ is a comic anthology about mental health narratives, containing real stories shared by real human creative-types.
It is edited by R. E. Burke (@r.e.burke), and contains nine comics, converging in a total of 45 comic-filled pages, with the aim to help those who are struggling feel less alone.
Comic by Beatrijs Brouwer (@beastlyworlds)
Contributors have been curated to allow a diversity of stories, of different visual and tonal natures, on the theme of ‘A Helping Hand’. Some are colourful and quirky, others and delicate and serious; from little hacks to help you get out of a funk, to sensitive poetry about dealing with long-term mental health disorders.
Art Julian Payne (@pyjamacardinal), with words by Elena Sirett (@elenasirett)
Contributors include Beatrijs Brouwer, who has recently published their magical comic Fox Flight Market Night, and Rowan Frewin, known for A Potted Trans History.
Artwork by Rowan Frewin (@rowanfrewin), with words by Phoenix Moon (@phoenixrainbowmoon)
Over-Inkers #2 ‘A Helping Hand’ is available to back on Kickstarter, with various reward tiers including a digital PDF, a physical edition, and an edition with an exclusive A4 risoprint.
Kickstarter exclusive risoprint, artwork by R. E. Burke
Backers can also add a bundle of two of R. E. Burke’s zines, Out of Date(s), to their reward for a discounted cost of £10. These colourful zines are about the existential crises brough about by dating.
