Sofia Alarcon writes about eco-anxiety in ‘Endsickness’

Here’s my chat with Sofia Alarcon about her new graphic story collection Endsickness published by Conundrum Press.

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Sofia Alarcon is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from Guatemala and now based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. She graduated from NSCAD University, where she pursued her interests in film, textiles and drawing. After taking a long hiatus to raise her kids, she returned to art-making through comics and cartoons. In 2021, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, she began self-publishing her one-person anthology series: Endsickness. Endsickness #1 was nominated for a Broken Pencil zine award and two Doug Wright awards, and Endsickness #2 was likewise nominated for a Doug Wright Award. She is still busy raising her kids, but she hopes to keep making comics whenever she has some free time. Endsickness (the completed anthology) is her first book, published by Conundrum Press.

According to Sofia, art has always been a place for her to address collective features and anxieties. To help her process her thoughts and feelings about the topic, Sofia turned to paper and pencil as the most accessible artistic tools at her disposal. In Endsickness, a first collection of graphic stories about climate change and eco-anxiety, each tale by Sofia attempts to “counter that challenge seeing the scope and scale of the issue by taking a close look at the individual quandaries of living in a society that seems at odds with itself, unable to face the existential threat looming on the horizon.”

Discover more about Sofia online at Sofia-Alarcon.com and on Instagram at @sofi_see_sofi_drew/

Discover more about Endsickness on Conundrum Press.

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