What I like about this comic is that it doesn’t “trivialize” mental health problems in and of themselves. It’s clear that the koala IS genuinely traumatized by what’s happened. But it does emphasize that the mental health problems are a symptom of some real tangible problem that needs to be dealt with immediately.
[Image ID: A comic drawing featuring a koala and two humans all in what used to be a forest. All the trees have been chopped down and only the stumps are left. The koala is clinging to one of the stumps and trembling with a terrified look on its face. The two humans are standing next to it. One of them is pointing at the Koala and saying, “This young koala has a mental health problem,” and the other person is taking notes down on a notepad. End ID.]
Non-Australians not realising this comic is actually about the recent approval of logging one of the last remaining koala habitats in Australia