Jan 1 2018 #2
Written in 2022:
I have to rescan those old comics still. They’ll be put up later.
If you’re reading these chronologically, you probably got to see them already. If you haven’t seen them, give it about two weeks.
Anyway, I still love autobio comics. The market became absolutely flooded and now they’ve settled down into their niche. If you want to try more autobio comics, I recommend the following:
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (and Are You My Mother?)
Johnny Wander by Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh
Junior Scientist Power Hour by Abby Howard
A lot of autobio are things that people do in their spare time, little projects to keep them operating, and some are from people who have moved on or people that have gotten published with them. If you search “autobio webcomics” the big ones are front and center and are largely completed projects. Some people quietly plug away at them like public diaries and little ways of commemorating experiences. There was a point in time where I wanted this to be my big thing, but I was desperate, and now I am settled, and it’s like a diary.
Autobio comics are so huge in variety. Some people feel obligated to bare their soul and some people rearrange and adapt their experiences for entertainment value. Grind their experiences into something an audience can consume. Or something that they can personally consume. It’s a method of filtering experiences into a different lens, to show your personal limited lens to others. Granted, social media makes it easier to share your experiences in tiny pieces.
The internet is everyone’s shared journal, I guess, and I’m certainly no exception.