My Body Unspooling

“My name is Lucille, and me and my body have broken up.”

My Body Unspooling opens with this line and launches into a 32-page exploration of dysphoria and the philosophical mind-body problem, told through surreal imagery and dual-stream narration. Lucille and his body narrate in opposition—Lucille too cold and resentful, his body too warm and too loud—until the pair seek an audience with God to request separation. The result is a pivotal moment of understanding that refuses easy resolution.

“There’s a fascinating irony in the idea that comics that are presented in abstract, even oblique terms, can actually communicate with us all the more articulately for their symbolic approach,” wrote Andy Oliver at Broken Frontier. “As a study of dysphoria and trans identity, My Body Unspooling is a remarkable piece of work, making its points all the more acutely for its borderline graphic surrealism.”

Fox’s art here has an eerily organic feel—all floating emotion and potent visual metaphor—with a careful color scheme that accentuates the comic’s blend of emblematic introspection and conceptual evocation. Originally published via ShortBox Comics digital fair in 2022, it was reprinted by Silver Sprocket in 2024 and went on to win the 2024 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic. That same brick, Fox joked to SOLRAD, “tipped his suitcase over the weight limit on his return flight to London. ‘I paid the extra, of course,’ he concedes, delighted but embarrassed by the recognition.”

Published by Silver Sprocket, 32 pages, ISBN 9798886200430. Now sold out in print but available as a PDF download.

Perfect for fans of surrealist, symbolically rich comics exploring trans identity, stream-of-consciousness graphic essays on mind and body, and boundary-pushing indie minicomics that communicate viscerally rather than literally.

Created by Leo Fox.