<b>Runner-up at the 2021 Expozine Awards: Best English Comic category</p><b>A surrealist journey through alienation, lost dreams, and self-redemption</b><p>A woman loses her sister to suicide and struggles with the overwhelming and confusing feelings that continue to plague her. A man reflects on a decade spent working in a call centre and the strange day-to-day momentum that caused him to unconsciously abandon his goals. <i>Helem</i> relies on a propulsive graphic narrative and evocative illustration to tell the intensely personal stories of two characters at a crossroads.</p><p>The nearly wordless stories contained in <i>Helem</i>, originally published by TRIP as <i>Agalma</i> and <i>Sequences</i>, delve deep into the internal lives of their characters. <i>Helem</i>, created while Wany was in a hallucinatory state brought on by a severe lack of sleep, also provides an intimate look into his own personal dreamscape.</p>