Nick Seluk of Those Delightful Heart and Brain Comics

Nick Seluk had been drawing an online comic called Awkward Yeti
about a socially stumbling cryptid named Lars while working a
corporate day job as a graphic designer. Eventually, Seluk
started creating strips where Lars’s heart and brain were walking
around on their own, trying to strike a balance between their
emotional and logical tendencies. And audiences responded,
sending Heart and Brain into viral meme territory. In this
interview, Seluk talks about how these resonant characters, which
he now draws full-time, are a reflection of his own ADHD and are
informed by the anxiety and depression he has dealt with.


 


Read Heart and Brain as well as Nick Seluk's other comics
at his website, www.TheAwkwardYeti.com.


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