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Cartoonist Gemma Correll's moving and funny book about her lifelong mental illness: Anxietyland

Boing Boing·Ruben Bolling·about 1 month ago
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ANXIETYLAND by Gemma Correll. Copyright @ 2026 by Gemma Correll. Reprinted by permission of Gallery Books, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC. Popular and hilarious web cartoonist and illustrator Gemma Correll has just released a new graphic novel about her lifetime struggle with anxiety and depression, which at times has been quite severe. Anxietyland is a heartbreaking and crushingly honest memoir, but also very funny and hopeful. ANXIETYLAND by Gemma Correll. Copyright @ 2026 by Gemma Correll. Reprinted by permission of Gallery Books, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC.ted with the permission of Gallery Books As the book progresses, it rotates among three storylines/formats: a recent time when Gemma checked herself into a Partial Hospitalization Program; her entire past, when she suffered from panic attacks, crippling anxiety, agoraphobia, depression, and alcohol abuse; and humorous comics ironically portraying her struggles with her symptoms as thrilling and frightening amusement park…

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