![]() ![]() But many agree the foundational autobio work –- deemed the “Rosetta Stone of autobiographical comics” by a Publisher’s Weekly review - is Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, created in 1972 by American underground comix creator Justin Green.ī inky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary follows us through Green’s adolescence, during which he suffered from disturbing and intrusive thoughts that were later diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive disorder. Autobiographical comics, nicknamed autobios by the genre’s creators and fans, can range from daily or even hourly journal-like cartoons to hefty tomes of graphic memoir that tell the story of an entire lifetime.īritain’s first book-length autobio graphic narrative came to us in 1988: The Spiral Cage, a first-hand account of living with the paralyzing birth defect spina bifida by Newcastle, England native Al Davison. ![]() After all, it can be great fun to caricature an annoying colleague or doodle out a daydream, and doing so is in our DNA: humans have been documenting true events through visual art for 17000 years, dating all the way back to scenes of hunting triumphs painted on cave walls (Duncan et al 2016).īut what if making cartoons based on your own life was your profession?įor some comic artists, it is. If you’ve ever sat at a desk with a piece of paper in front of you, chances are you’ve spent a moment (…or two) doodling in the margins. ![]()
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