Lucy Sullivan

Lucy Sullivan is an animator, author and artist based in London. She co-directed & animated award-winning music videos as part of the collective Smuggling Peanuts. In 2016 she moved her practice into comics. Since then she has been commissioned by Dark Horse Comics for Black Hammer and is a contributor to Hey, Amateur! Anthology from Black Crown. Her self-published comics include 1in4Zines, and her latest series How To Build A Feminist, a prelude to her next large scale work. Barking (Unbound), her debut graphic novel, is about a young woman in psychiatric torment. One year after the death of a close friend, her body was fished out of the river, Alix Otto’s demons have overwhelmed her. She finds herself in a hospital psychiatric ward where she clashes with staff, fellow patients and herself. She not always can tell the difference between reality and wild hallucinations. Her depression, her fears, grief and guilt and images of her dead friend, are embodied in her visions of a big black dog. But then, a glimmer of hope: a new friendship. Tripwire Review called Lucy Sullivan’s Barking “more evidence that comics is a legitimate form for discussion of mental health, if that question hadn’t been settled long ago anyway.”