How Are You Feeling? A Comics Anthology

A girl navigates her first period while a woman anticipates her last. A mother loses her baby before she can hold him. A friend opens up about her struggles with mental health.

The How Are You Feeling? anthology collects the first three issues of Difference Engine’s DE Shorts imprint: A Drip. A Drop. A Deluge: A Period Tragicomedy, Bearing Witness, and Worlds Apart: A Conversation about Mental Health. From humorous anecdotes drawn from difficult conversations, contrasting encounters and shared conundrums, to deeply personal experiences, this trilogy of comics seeks to open up dialogue about relatable issues that remain difficult to talk about.

— from Difference Engine

These stories don’t offer easy answers. Instead, they open doors – to conversations we’re often too afraid to start, to moments we may have lived through alone, and to the realisation that so many of our private struggles are, in fact, quietly shared.

I personally really enjoyed these three stories – they made me reflect deeply and reminded me how important it is to hold space for both our own emotions and the experiences of others. This anthology is an invitation – to listen, to speak, and most of all, to feel. Sometimes the most healing thing we can do for ourselves and for each other is to simply ask, and truly mean it: how are you feeling?

— Aqilah, QUPL