👥 Fractured

Fractured is the signature series of Unwell, featuring a collection of slim, illustrated books that blend surreal portraiture with poetic narrative fragments. Each volume provides an intimate character study conveyed through haunting portraits, experimental text, and fractured narrative forms. With no fixed genre but a clear emotional center, these books blur the boundaries between poetry, prose, and visual storytelling.

The series explores characters unraveling at the edge of memory, identity, or perception. Through poetic monologues, malfunctioning checklists, broken dialogues, and dreamlike fragments, each book reveals a mind in crisis—sometimes comic, sometimes devastating, always deeply … human-ish. The format is simple but precise: ten chapters, attendant images, and one persistent emotional fissure running through it all.

The first book, Norman, introduces a man who insists he is fine, despite all evidence to the contrary. His pear-shaped head, obsessive checklists, and cracked sense of time set the tone for what’s to come. In the second book, we meet Agnes, a woman with one oversized eye and too many screens. Her world is grayscale, her sweater always mustard, and her memories increasingly unstable. Future titles, including Gargant, Silva, and Wilbur, will continue the tradition, each figure carrying the weight of a world that’s already fallen apart.