“To struggle with the textures of our mental landscape can feel like the most brutalizing, lonely thing. What Chipkin and Tavassoli have gifted us is one-of-a-kind: the lens of kinship. Through their dual perspectives, we eavesdrop on a tender conversation: How can I be there for you? and How can I not push you away? While most media focuses on the so-called failures or successes of mentally ill people to regain normalcy, these artists keep their focus on relationship. We witness questions of health and the realities of illness as traversed through that most precious, private kingdom: homiedom. The depth and nuance of these pages is treasure in the palm.”
– Shira Erlichman (Poet, Visual Artist, Producer)

“Eyes Too Dry is a time capsule, an intimate portrait of two friends, and a vitally powerful conversation about what it’s like to have ‘heavy feelings.’ […] In the end, it is an extraordinary work about dealing with depression, helping people who suffer it, and the effects it can have on everyone. But it’s also a celebration of friendship and a testament to the therapeutic power of art and creativity.“ 
– Vice.com

“Eyes Too Dry is a truly beautiful and unique graphic depiction of a story that many of us have experienced, but may not have found a way to speak about… I have never seen mental illness depicted in this way, and the illustrations convey the physical and emotional toll of depression more powerfully than anything I’ve seen before. This is an important book about a topic that still holds so much stigma, and the more people that read it the better.“ 
– Rebecca Shaw (Writer, SBS Comedy)

“This book is a beautiful meditation on intimacy, struggle, listlessness, and aching empathy. Alice and Tava’s interchanging chapters weave painfully, tenderly familiar environments. Much like the relationship depicted, this story cracks open, pulls you in and holds you through that process. Reading this feels like a brave conversation with an old friend, and you should do it.”
– Lee Lai (Artist)

“This is such a beautiful, beautiful book. Deeply thoughtful, deeply impressive. A real work of heart.”
– Clare Bowditch (Musician, Radio Presenter)

As an academic who works across the fields of creative writing, comics, and graphic medicine, I was thrilled and inspired by the two unique voices in this book, which speak to each other not only in words, but in those other lines particular to the medium of comics: the curve of a hand around a cup of soup; the broken edge of a panel border; the balloon of air around speech; the inky blackness of the holes into which we sometimes sink. As a person who grew up with immediate family members suffering through depression and other mental illnesses, this book offers a portrait of tenderness, friendship, caring and love that is expressed not just with honesty and compassion, but with practical, clear and specific ways of navigating complex emotional territory. This book helped me, without telling me that’s what it was doing. I couldn’t be more admiring of the achievement of these two young artists.
– Dr Elizabeth MacFarlane (Professor UniMelb, Publisher of Twelve Panel Press)

“As an academic in the health sciences field, I have experienced repeated frustration with respect to typical forms of academic currency […] and the fact that they tend to reach only a very limited audience, primarily other academics. While this is important, there are many other stakeholders […] who need to be aware of the lived experience and social context within which mental health and illness is experienced. [Eyes Too Dry] is a prime example of using visual, embodied ways of sharing the very personal experience of mental health issues. Such knowledge translation is powerful and has the great potential to reach a wide variety of audiences. I strongly recommend this novel to the general public and will certainly be ‘talking it up’ in my network as a prime example of arts-based knowledge translation.“ 
– Katherine Boydell (Professor of Mental Health, Black Dog Institute) 

“This memoir is so honest and beautiful in its storytelling. Eyes Too Dry isn’t afraid to talk openly about depression, people supporting people with depression and the stigma behind it all. It has fast become one of my favourite graphic novels.“ 
– Vlada Edirippulige (Junky Comics) 

”It’s comics-making as processing, it’s so live and so raw. […] incredibly compelling. I read it powering through the pages. I really recommend this as a chronicle, of these two people, but also as a use of the form. As archaeology; as digging; as naming - naming stuff that is so hard to come to terms with. [The stuff that] exists and obtrudes upon your whole life. I think it’s a remarkable achievement. A remarkable undertaking.“ 
– Bernard Caleo (Review on RRR Smart Arts radio show)