Depression Is Fun!

Nina Paley’s Depression Is Fun! (1992–present, Hineni Consciousness Press) is a single-issue comic that turns the author’s own melancholy into a wry, self-aware meditation. With Paley as the sole artist, the series offers a raw, minimalist glimpse into the humor and absurdity of living with depression, long before such personal comics became common. It stands as an early, quietly influential work in the autobiographical comix tradition, proving that even the heaviest feelings can be lightened by a pen and a punchline.