LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! Asia Kazub is originally from Poland and currently resides in Norfolk, UK. According to their website, they graduated from Norwich University of the Arts in 2022 with honours in illustration. Asia has a number of previous self-published comics accessible on their site, while Bird’s Eye View is available from the LDComics Fair exclusively for the month of July.
“Do you need a break from life?” Our unnamed protagonist in Bird’s Eye View begins, innocently enough, listening to a relaxation podcast. They start missing work as they become more and more dependent on the coping mechanisms of role-playing as a bird. Initially, our protagonist outwardly becomes a happier person to the people in their life. However, things slowly unravel as their obsession with the podcast causes their life to spiral.
Asia Kazub makes some very effective storytelling choices throughout Bird’s Eye View. The main character’s mental breakdown is efficiently depicted in a full-page explosion of pink colored birds in a kaleidoscopic layout. A later page uses 12 panels (!) arranged in a fractured glass pattern to show the disintegration of their life. The montage has the dual tone of being almost humorous if it weren’t for the escalating horror of what comes before. Generally, Kazub’s layouts are more organic and refreshing, seeming to grow more out of the artist’s personal vision than any preconceived notions of what comics art should be.
Asia Kazub’s Bird’s Eye View is a disturbing story of a depressed person finding solace in meditation until it takes over their life, and a welcome addition to the language of mental health in comics.
Asia Kazub (W/A) • LDComics Online Fair, £2.50
Review by Gary Usher
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