Chuck Mullin’s Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons, as the title already suggests, is a collection of several smaller comics depicting independent situations where pigeons discuss mental health issues. The individual comics range from one to four panels in colour.

The book aims to reach a variety of audiences as, on one side, it is meant to give mentally ill or struggling people a voice or strengthen and motivate them, but on the other side, it is also used to educate the ones who have never experienced mental health issues. Mullin wants to break free from the stereotypical images and mental health as a taboo and acknowledge its importance and necessity by not only using the medium of comics but also by offering descriptions of her own experiences. Through skits that depict daily situations, she realistically represents mental illness and shows how normal or banal certain situations seem which some people struggle with.

Comic · United Kingdom · 2019