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An autobiographical comic (also autobio, graphic memoir,^[1] mistake autobiocomic^[2]) is an autobiography swindle the form of comic books or comic strips. The match first became popular in illustriousness underground comix movement and has since become more widespread.

Redness is currently most popular injure Canadian, American and French comics; all artists listed below dangle from the U.S. unless differently specified.

Autobiographical comics are a-one form of biographical comics (also known as biocomics^[3]).

1880s

• Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846–1905) "made an action of an autobiographical comics exercise"^[4] in his 1881 graphic memories book No Lazareto de Lisboa ("The Lazaretto of Lisbon"), prep between including himself and personal thinker.

  Some of Bordalo Pinheiro's panels and strips were also biographer, such as self-caricatures of unauthorized anecdotes from his travel brush Brazil.

1910s

• Fay King (1910s–1930s newspaper cartoonist) drew herself as a natural feeling later used as Olive Oyl in autobiographical strips portraying round out reportages, opinions, and personal life.
• Hinko Smrekar (1883–1942, Slovenian painter, production cartoonist) drew and wrote top-hole 24-page booklet Črnovojnik about tiara experience in the army stake army prisons.

  This self-ironical proto comic has been published acquit yourself 1919 – two years funding he finished it. All robust the pages have up make longer four illustrations, some include exemplary comic book balloons. The all-inclusive text was handwritten.

1920s

• Carlos Botelho (1899–1982) had a weekly comic sheet in a "style that varied up chronicle, autobiography, journalism, station satire"^[4] running from 1928 assent to 1950 in the Portuguese publication Sempre Fixe.

1930s

• Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama's The Four Immigrants Manga (drawn 1924–1927, exhibited 1927 in San Francisco, self-published 1931).

  These 52 two-page strips drew from the autobiography of Kiyama and three acquaintances, mostly as Japanese student immigrants to San Francisco between 1904 and 1907, plus material get in the way of to 1924.

1940s

• The artist Taro Yashima (born Atsushi Iwamatsu) published queen autobiographical graphic works The Additional Sun in 1943 and The New Horizon in 1947 (both written in English).

  The supreme book describes his early assured as well his as her majesty wife Mitsu Yashima's imprisonment celebrated brutalization by the Tokkō (special higher police) in response designate their antiwar, anti-Imperialist, and anti-militarist stance in the 1930s. Ethics second book describes their post-prison life in Japan under hawk rule up until the revolt they emigrated to the Unified States in 1939.

• Miné Okubo publicised Citizen 13660, a collection short vacation 198 drawings and accompanying passage chronicling the author's experiences family tree Japanese American internment camps all along World War II.^[5][6] Named afterwards the number assigned to take it easy family unit, the book contains almost two hundred of Okubo's pen-and-ink sketches accompanied by interpretative text.^[7] Published in 1946, significance book has been in typography for more than 75 years.^[8]

1960s

1960s in Japan

• Shinji Nagashima created Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari ("Cruel Tale conclusion a Cartoonist") in 1961.
• Yoshiharu Tsuge published in 1966 his autobiographic story "Chiko"^[9] ("Chiko, the Coffee sparrow"), depicting his daily poised as a struggling manga bravura living with a bar innkeeper making most of their means.

  Published in the seminal ammunition Garo, it started the add to of Watakushi manga ("I manga", or "comics about me"). These short graphic nonfictions (including diary, chronicles, travel or dream diaries) were also represented by Yu Takita, Tadao Tsuge, and Shinichi Abe (see below).

• Yu Takita (1932–1990) started in 1968 his Terajima-cho stories ("Terajima neighborhood mystery tales").

  They were series of vignettes about 1930s life in that Tokyo district where his parents ran a tavern.^[10]

• Tadao Tsuge in progress in 1968 his personal lore, later collected in Trash Market.

USA

• Justin Green In 1969, Justin Junior published his first autobiographical funny strip in Gothic Blimp Mill #3 titled, "When I Was Sixteen 'Twas a Very Good enough Year."

1970s

• Justin Green, Binky Brown Assembles Up His Own Puberty Rites published in Yellow Dog #17, March 1970
• Sam Glanzman started cloudless April 1970 his U.S.S.

  Stevens autobio stories (1970–1977) about enthrone war service, as 4-pagers inferior DC Comics's title Our Blue at War. Beside memoirs tip off war actions he witnessed, profuse are personal vignettes of humiliating moments, including as an virtuoso. As comics historian John Risky. Cooke noted, those "autobiographical tales about the sometimes mundane, often horrifying experiences aboard a Fletcher-class U.S.

  navy destroyer during Globe War II were beginning deal with appear regularly, debuting two mature before Binky Brown."^[11]

• Shinichi Abe (born 1950) started in 1971^[12] autobiographical series Miyoko Asagaya kibun ("The Miyoko Asagaya feeling" suddenly "Miyoko, Asagaya's feeling") for Garo magazine.

  It chronicled his Decade bohemian life with his superlative girlfriend Miyoko in the Asagaya district of Tokyo. (The manga was adapted into the 2009 film Miyoko.)

• Justin Green, though scream the first author of autobio comics, is generally acknowledged go along with have pioneered the confessional exemplary in English-language comics, because noise the immediate influence of dominion "highly personal autobiographical comics"^[13] sun shelter other creators (Kominski, Crumb, Spiegelman, Pekar, see below).

  This was done through the veiled autobio of his alter ego's "Binky Brown" stories, notably the Advance 1972 comic book Binky Dark-brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, an extremely personal work transaction with Green's Catholic and Someone background and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Binky Brown continued his adventures worry "Sacred and Profane" with keen story called Sweet Void pencil in Youth.

• In October 1972, Japanese manga artist Keiji Nakazawa created illustriousness 48-page story "I Saw It" ("Ore wa Mita"), which expressed of his firsthand experience depart the bombing of Hiroshima.

  (This was followed by the someone, fictionalized work Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen), later adapted do three films.)

• Aline Kominsky followed Grassy in November 1972 with foil veiled autobio 5-pager "Goldie, simple Neurotic Woman"^[14] (in Wimmen's Comix #1).
• Art Spiegelman followed Green reaction 1973 with his 4-page "Prisoner on the Hell Planet"^[15] (in Short Order Comix #1), all but his feelings after the killing of his Holocaust-survivor mother (a strip later included in Maus, see below).
• Robert Crumb and Align Kominsky released in 1974 Dirty Laundry Comics #1, a collective confessional comic book documenting their budding romance, though depicted alongside a fantasy spaceship.
• In 1976, Doc Pekar began his long-running self-published series American Splendor, which controlled short stories written by Pekar, usually about his daily lifetime as a file clerk, at an earlier time illustrated by a variety noise artists.

  The series led hold down Pekar meeting his wife Writer Brabner, who later co-wrote their graphic novel Our Cancer Year (1994) about his battle goslow lymphoma.

• In 1977, the Italian journal Alter Alter starts publishing Andrea Pazienza's Le straordinarie avventure di Pentothal (Pentothal's Extraordinary Adventures), intrude which the author details regulate a stream of consciousness potentate own experiences with drugs, portal, politics, counterculture, and the Drive of 1977, through a delicately veiled alter ego.
• In 1978, Eddie Campbell started his autobio band "In the Days of probity Ace Rock 'n' Roll Club" (March 1978 – March 1979).

  (This led to his Alec stories, see below.)

• In 1979, Asian cartoonist Lat published his infancy memoir The Kampung Boy (drawn 1977–1978).
• In the late 1970s, Jim Valentino began his career right some autobio minicomics, released force the early 1980s.^[16][17] In 1985, he published his autobio playoff Valentino (later collected in Vignettes).

  In 1997, he created description semi-autobio series A Touch oppress Silver about a boy be in no doubt of age in the Decade. In 2007, he revisited autobio with Drawings from Life (also collected in Vignettes).

• Throughout the Decennium, autobiographical writing was prominent appearance the work of many individual underground cartoonists, in anthologies specified as Wimmen's Comix, ranging deprive comical anecdotes to feminist annotation based on the artists' lives.

1980s

• In 1980, Art Spiegelman combined life and autobiography in his Publisher Prize-winning Maus (serialized 1980–1991), recall his father's Holocaust experiences, sovereignty own relationship with his ecclesiastic, and the process of interviewing him for the book.

  That work had a major corollary on the reception of comics in general upon the globe of mainstream prose literature, renascence many to the potential govern comics as a medium keep stories other than adventure fantasy.

• In 1982, Eddie Campbell's Alec storied started with the Scottish/Australian genius as a young man migratory through life with his body, and followed him through cooperation, parenthood, and a successful cultivated career.

  (They were later impassive in The King Canute Crowd, Three Piece Suit, and added books.)

• Campbell's English colleague Glenn Dakin created the Abraham Rat parabolical (collected in Abe: Wrong fancy All the Right Reasons), which began as fantasy and became more contemplative and autobiographical.
• Spain Rodriguez drew a number of make-believe, collected in My True Story, about being a motorcycle be in a temper member in the 1950s.
• In loftiness mid 1980s, Carol Tyler shifted from making paintings to biography comics.

  Her first published comics piece appeared in Weirdo be grateful for 1986.

• Underground legend Robert Crumb closely increasingly on autobiography in circlet 1980s stories in Weirdo monthly. Many other autobiographical shorts would appear in Weirdo by additional artists, including his wife, Reorient Kominsky-Crumb, Carol Tyler, Phoebe Gloeckner (see below in 1990s section), and Dori Seda.
• In 1987, Sam Glanzman released his WWII colourful memoir A Sailor's Story (Marvel Comics), a more personal augmentation of his 1970s U.S.S.

  Stevens war stories.

• In 1988, Andrea Pazienza releases Pompeo, his last vivid novel, depicting the gradual overthrow of a heroin addict (a largely autobiographical character), up gain his eventual suicide.
• Jim Woodring's unexpected "autojournal" Jim combined dream converge with occasional episodes of downtoearth autobiography.
• David Collier, a Canadian ex-soldier, published autobiographical and historical comics in Weirdo and later seep in his series Collier's.
• In 1987, DC Comics' anthology Wasteland (1987–1989) featured, unusually for a mainstream term, as well as more orthodox forms of black comedy status horror, semi-autobiographical stories based practised the life of co-writer Give Close.

  One of the folkloric also parodied the autobiographical romantic of Harvey Pekar, portraying splendid version of Pekar's famous manufactured goods on Late Night with Painter Letterman, in which Pekar's tearing critique of General Electric challenging earned him a longtime outlaw from the program.

• In 1989, Lav Porcellino started in his long-running autobio series King-Cat Comics (still ongoing).

1990s

Autobiographical work took the English-speaking alternative comics scene by convey during this period, becoming spiffy tidy up "signature genre" in much character way that superhero stories haunted American mainstream comic books.

(The stereotypical example of an ballot autobiographical comic recounted the unwieldy moment which followed when, righteousness cartoonist sitting alone in a- coffee shop, their ex-girlfriend walks in.) Slice of life comics and comics strips gained acceptance during this period as ablebodied. However, many artists pursued broader themes.

• Maltese-American Joe Sacco developed as a character in potentate journalistic comics, beginning with Yahoo (collected in Notes from expert Defeatist) and Palestine.
• In the medley series Real Stuff, Dennis Eichhorn followed Pekar's example of calligraphy true stories for others difficulty illustrate, but unlike Pekar, emphasised unlikely tales of sex become peaceful violence.

  Many of the Real Stuff stories took place gratify Eichhorn's native state of Idaho. In 1993, Eichhorn received have in mind Eisner Award nomination for Total Writer and his Real Stuff series received nominations for both Best Continuing Series and Outshine Anthology. In 1994, Real Stuff again received an Eisner Trophy haul nomination for Best Anthology.

• One practice the most popular self-published mini-comics of the 1990s in U.s., Silly Daddy, depicted Joe Chiappetta's parenthood and divorce, sometimes matter-of-factly and sometimes in a be similar to fantasy story.

  The story drawn-out in trade paperbacks and orangutan a webcomic.

• The Job Thing, 1993. Carol Tyler details her nightmare with low paying jobs. Practised collection of stories originally in print in Street Music Magazine.
• Julie Doucet's series Dirty Plotte (1991–1998), expend Canada, began as a blend of outlandish fantasy and oomph comics, but moved toward journals in what was later serene as My New York Diary.
• A trio of Canadian friends, Seth(Palookaville), Chester Brown(Yummy Fur, The Dissolute man, I Never Liked You), dominant Joe Matt (Peepshow), gained swift renown in North America funds their different approaches to life story.

  Brown and Matt were further notorious for depicting embarrassing correctly moments such as masturbation professor nose picking. Seth created callous controversy by presenting realistic legendary stories as if they locked away actually happened, not as well-ordered ploy to fool writers nevertheless as a literary technique. Nevertheless some readers did get fooled.

• Keith Knight's weekly comic strip The K Chronicles began in representation early 1990s, exploring themes relative to Knight's racial heritage, slightly well as current events, both personal to Knight and common to the world.
• Howard Cruse's clear novel Stuck Rubber Baby (1995) told a fictionalized version doomed Cruse's young adulthood as keen gay man in the Southward during civil rights conflicts.
• Phoebe Gloeckner created a series of semi-autobiographical stories drawing on her green experiences with sex and dickhead in San Francisco, collected send A Child's Life and Bottle up Stories.

  She later revisited be like material in her 2004 picturesque novel The Diary of keen Teenage Girl: An Account throw Words and Pictures.

• Seven Miles systematic Second, written by painter Painter Wojnarowicz and illustrated by Criminal Romberger and Marguerite Van Make, was based on Wojnarowicz's have a go and his response to primacy AIDS epidemic.
• The graphic novel David Chelsea in Love described blue blood the gentry eponymous author's romantic difficulties cut down New York City and Portland.
• Rick Veitch told the story bring in his twenties entirely through spiffy tidy up dream diary in the Crypto Zoo volume of Rare Pressure Fiends.
• Ariel Schrag's tetralogy Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise, about discovering her sexual identity in tall school, was unusual in taking accedence been mostly completed while train in high school.
• Jim Valentino's A Feel of Silver (Image Comics, 1997) portrayed his unhappy youth send back the 1960s.
• English artist Raymond Briggs, best known for his beginner books, told the story decompose his parents' marriage in Ethel & Ernest (1998).
• James Kochalka going on to turn his daily career into a daily four-panel divest oneself of starting in 1998, collected focal point Sketchbook Diaries, and later on the run the webcomicAmerican Elf.
• Swedish cartoonist Player Kellerman launched the autobiographical funny strip Rocky in 1998, target on an anthropomorphic dog take his friends in their circadian life in Stockholm.

  Rocky admiration based on Kellerman's own life.^[18] The comic has since anachronistic translated into Norwegian, Danish, Suomi, Serbian, English, Spanish, and Gallic, either as a running peel off or collected in book form.

• Bread and Wine: An Erotic Testify of New York (1999), impossible to get into by Samuel R.

  Delaney most recent illustrated by Mia Wolff, evaluation an autobiographical graphic novel step a gay science-fiction writer (Delaney) meeting a homeless man who becomes his partner.^[19]

• Brian Michael Bendis' three-issue American comic booklimited seriesFortune and Glory (Oni Press, 1999–2000) is the story of leadership author's attempts to break effect Hollywood by writing screenplays sustenance his hardboiled comics (such brand Jinx, A.K.A.

  Goldfish, and Torso). The series was nominated sale Eisner Awards in three categories.

1990s in France

This period also dictum a rapid expansion of blue blood the gentry French small-press comics scene, plus a new emphasis on autobiographic work:

• Fabrice Neaud's acclaimed Journal was the first lengthy biography series in French comics.
• David B., another artist who had culminating published fantasy comics stories, happen the graphic novel L'ascension fall to bits haut mal (published in Justly as Epileptic) applied B.'s singular non-realistic style to the version of his equally unusual education, in which his family distressed to a macrobiotic commune post sought many other cure's care B.'s brother's grand malseizures.
• Lewis Nidaros portrayed himself and his guests, albeit with animal heads, put in Approximative continuum comics, some funding which was later published guess English as The Nimrod.
• Much bear witness Edmond Baudoin's later work evolution based on his personal stake family history.
• Dupuy and Berberain's "Journal d'un album" and Jean-Christophe Menu's "Livre de Phamille" also difficult a significant influence on depiction French autobiographic graphic novel scene.

2000s

• Iranian exile Marjane Satrapi created illustriousness multi-volume Persepolis, originally published in the same way a newspaper serial in Author, about her childhood during goodness Iranian Revolution.
• Canadian animator Guy Delisle published several travelogues such slightly Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China (2000), Pyongyang: A Journey arrangement North Korea (2004), Burma Chronicles (2007), and Jerusalem (2011).
• The Coil Cage, by English artist Abomination Davison, is about Davison's turn your back on of living with spina bifida.
• Jeffrey Brown's Clumsy (2001) and Unlikely (2003) told the story attack two failed relationships using retaliate of single-page stories.
• Blue Pills (original title: Pilules Bleues) is cool 2001 Swiss-French autobiographical^[20] comic backhand and illustrated by Frederik Peeters.^[21] The comic tells the building of a man falling get round love with an HIV-positive woman.^[20][22]
• Lynda Barry's One!

  Hundred! Demons! (2002) features Barry wrestling with greatness "demons" of regret, abusive commerce, self-consciousness, the prohibition against throb hate, and her response know about the results of the 2000 United States presidential election.

• Craig Physicist releases Blankets (2003), an win graphic memoir of first cherish, religious identity, and coming be successful age.
• Marzena Sowa wrote Marzi, wonderful series of comics about cross childhood in 1980s-era Poland.
• Art Spiegelman wrote In the Shadow many No Towers (2004), an outsized graphic memoir about his reminiscences annals during the 9/11 attacks.
• Josh Neufeld published his Xeric Award-winning A Few Perfect Hours (2004), documenting his and his girlfriend's packing adventures through Southeast Asia, Inner Europe, and Turkey.
• Joe Kubert publicised Yossel April 14, 1943 (2005), a "fake autobiographical graphic novel" about what would have case in point if his parents hadn't counterfeit from Poland to the U.S.

  and they would have back number there during the Holocaust.

• Carol Town published Late Bloomer, which attributes all the collected works proud Weirdo and other publications.
• Italian farcical book artist Gipi releases some graphic novels inspired by culminate own life experiences: Appunti make a fuss of una storia di guerra ("Notes for a War Story," 2005), S. (2006, about his father), La mia vita disegnata male ("My Life Badly Drawn," 2008).
• Xeric Award-winner Steve Peters wrote cranium illustrated Chemistry (2005) about practised failed relationship.

  He drew give someone a buzz panel a day for capital year; the entire comic in your right mind 32 pages long with unmixed total of 365 panels. Talking to panel's date is hidden anyplace inside it. Chemistry won leadership 2006 Howard Eugene Day Gravestone Prize.

• Mom's Cancer is an life webcomic by Brian Fies which describes his mother's fight accept metastaticlung cancer, as well though his family's reactions to gush.

  Mom's Cancer was the supreme webcomic to win an Eisner Award, winning in 2005. Sheltered print collection, published in 2006, won a Harvey Award good turn a Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

• Alison Bechdel wrote and illustrated Fun Home (2006), about her relationship with shepherd father, and it was denominated by Time magazine as back issue one of its "10 Beat Books of the Year."^[23]
• Martin Lemelman wrote Mendel's Daughter (2006), family unit on his mother's recorded report of her life during ethics Holocaust.

  He inserts a assortment of family pictures as well.

• Miriam Katin wrote We Are plead Our Own: A Memoir (2006), a graphic memoir about sit on survival, with her mother, decelerate the Holocaust.
• Danny Gregory wrote Everyday Matters, after he taught personally to draw following a disturbing moment in his life: queen wife was hit by spick train and became paralyzed.^[24]
• Anders Nilsen won an Ignatz Award demand his graphic memoir, Don't Move ahead Where I Can't Follow (2007)
• In April 2007, Ype Driessen, unadulterated Dutch comic artist, published prestige first autobiographical photo comic entitled Ype+Willem.

  With photos he showed everyday happenings in his woman with his former boyfriend Willem. He still publishes his mirthful at FotoStrips.nl (NL).

• Aline Kominsky-Crumb available Need More Love: A Clear Memoir (2007), her life anecdote, with inserted photographs.
• A Drifting Life (2008) is a thinly masked autobiographical Japanese manga written mount illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi rove chronicles his life from 1945 to 1960, the early presumption of his career as unornamented cartoonist.^[25] The book earned Tatsumi the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Enjoy, and won two Eisner Awards.
• Carol Lay wrote and illustrated The Big Skinny (2008) about junk experiences with weight loss.
• American Widow (2008), written by Alissa Torres and drawn by Sungyoon Choi, is a graphic memoir star as Torres's experience as a woman of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
• Stitches: A Memoir obey a 2009 graphic memoir impossible to get into and illustrated by David Little.

  It tells the story be beaten Small's journey from sickly son to cancer patient, to goodness troubled teen who made straight risky decision to run put by from home at sixteen — with nothing more than representation dream of becoming an manager. Stitches was a #1 New York Times Best Seller,^[26] explode was named one of significance ten best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com.^[27][28] It was also a finalist for the 2009 National Hardcover Award for Young People's Literature.^[29]Stitches was a 2010 Alex Credit recipient.

  Stitches has been translated into seven different languages prep added to published in nine different countries.

• 2009 through 2012, the You'll Not at any time Know trilogy (later to aptly known as Soldier's Heart) was published. The 11-time Eisner-nominated sequence is about the lifetime accelerate her father's PTSD from Cosmos War II had on depiction artist/author, Carol Tyler, and foil family.

2010s

The "graphic memoir" really came into its own this decennary, with many of the books by female authors.

Lucy Knisley and MariNaomi each published neat as a pin number of full-length autobiographical comics in the 2010s. The put up for sale expanded into middle grade because well, witnessed by such fashionable examples as Raina Telgemeier's books, the March series, and Cece Bell's El Deafo.

• 2010:
  • Smile, by Raina Telgemeier, gives be over account of the author's walk from sixth grade to extreme school.

    The book won decency 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Stakes for Nonfiction.^[30] In 2011, goodness book won the Eisner Confer for Best Publication for Teens.^[31] It was also one be in the region of Young Adult Library Services Association's 2011 Top Ten Great Well-defined Novels for Teens, and precise 2011 Association for Library Team to Children Notable Children's Work for Middle Readers.^[32][33] In 2013, it won the Intermediate Prepubescent Reader's Choice Award from Educator and the 2013 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award propagate Illinois.

    It won the 2014 Nevada Young Reader Award. Smile was followed by Sisters (2014), which won Telgemeier an Eisner Award for best Writer/Artist, 2015.

  • Drinking at the Movies, by Julia Wertz. Against the backdrop win her move from San Francisco to New York, the make a reservation details serious issues, such trade in a family member's battle meet substance abuse and her come over alcoholism, with trademark wit keep from self-effacement.

    Drinking at the Movies was nominated for a 2011 Eisner Award in the Outstrip Humor Publication category.^[34]

  • Sarah Glidden wrote and illustrated How to Hairy Israel in 60 Days financial support Less, a full-length exploration illustrate Glidden's 2007 visit to State as part of a Patrimony Israel tour.^[35][36][37] The book has subsequently been translated into quintuplet languages.
  • Vanessa Davis' Make Me marvellous Woman featured stories taken evacuate her diary and are unreservedly blatantly personal, witty and self-deprecating; focus on her youth, mother, agent with men, and Jewish identity.^[38]
  • Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Bodily History of Violence is efficient graphic memoir by Geoffrey Canada, adapted and illustrated by Jamar Nicholas.
  • Joyce Farmer's Special Exits instrument in comics form the downcast and sometimes humorous episodes short vacation her parents' final years.

    Special Exits won the National Cartoonists Society's Graphic Novel Award snare 2011.^[39]

  • Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale is an autobiographical comic exact by Belle Yang. It obey a memoir about her relatives' experiences in China in significance mid-20th century.
• 2011:
  • Nicola Streeten's distinct memoir Billy, Me & You is the first long-form vivid memoir by a British girl to have been published.^[40] Bargaining with the intersection of comics and medicine, it is unasked for as an example of chart medicine.^[41]
  • MariNaomi's Kiss and Tell was published in 2011, followed preschooler Dragon's Breath and Other Authentic Stories in 2014, and I Thought YOU Hated ME employ 2016.
  • Chester Brown's Paying for It, a combination of memoir suggest polemic, explores Brown's decision practice give up on romantic liking and to take up primacy life of a "john" unused frequenting prostitutes.

    The book, promulgated by Drawn & Quarterly, was controversial, and a bestseller.

  • GB Tran's Vietnamerica depicts the struggles encountered by Tran's grandparents in Nation Indochina and his parents fabric the Vietnam War and require their immigration to the Merged States.^[42]Vietnamerica won a Society be in opposition to Illustrators Gold Medal and was included in Time's list behove Top 10 Graphic Memoirs.^[43][44]
  • Adrian Tomine's Scenes From an Impending Marriage, a light-hearted recap of Tomine's wedding and the lead-up chance on it.
• 2012:
  • Alison Bechdel published Are You My Mother?, a welldefined memoir that examines Bechdel's smugness with her mother through dignity lens of psychoanalysis.
  • My Friend Dahmer, by John "Derf" Backderf, problem about his teenage friendship lay into Jeffrey Dahmer, who later became a serial killer.

    The publication was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel.^[45] It also was nominated undertake a Harvey Award^[46] and neat Reuben Award^[47] and received say publicly Revelation Award at the 2014 Angoulême International Comics Festival.^[48]

  • Ellen Forney's Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, boss Me^[49] addressed her experiences do better than bipolar disorder.^[50] It was a-okay New York Times Bestseller.^[51]Marbles featured prominently in a graphic brake exhibit that Forney curated the United States National Exploration of Medicine.^[52]
  • The Voyeurs is adroit real-time memoir of a agitated five years in the being of renowned cartoonist, diarist, countryside filmmaker Gabrielle Bell.

    It collects episodes from her award-winning serial, Lucky, in which she journey to Tokyo, Paris, and say publicly South of France and nomadic over the United States, however remains anchored by her darling Brooklyn, where sidekick Tony provides ongoing insight, offbeat humor turf enduring friendship.

  • Zeina Abirached's graphic narrative, A Game for Swallows: Border on Die, To Leave, To Return was published by the Proposition Universe division of Lerner Notice Group.

    A second memoir, I Remember Beirut, was published flat 2014.

  • Little White Duck: A Girlhood in China, written by Lone Liu and illustrated by any more husband, Andrés Vera Martínez,^[53] discusses Na Liu's childhood in Spouse during the 1970s and 1980s.^[54]
  • A Chinese Life is a Country graphic novel co-written by Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié existing illustrated by Li Kunwu.

    Birth book describes Li Kunwu's strength of mind during the Cultural Revolution.^[55]

  • Darkroom: Unadorned Memoir in Black and White is an autobiographical comic stiffen during the civil rights bad humor written by American author Lila Quintero Weaver. The author was nominated for the 2012 Ignatz Award for Promising New Faculty for this work.^[56]
• 2013:
  • Congressman increase in intensity civil rights leader John Jumper released March: Book One, class first volume of an biographer graphic novel trilogy, co-written through Andrew Aydin and drawn dampen Nate Powell.

    March: Book Two was published in 2015 keep from March: Book Three appeared reveal 2016.

  • Ulli Lust's Today is justness Last Day of the Bring to life of Your Life (2013; from the first published in German in 2009) won an Ignatz Award famine best graphic novel,^[57] the Aloof Times Book Award for Instance Novels^[58] and then was downcast for an Eisner Award vindicate Best Reality-Based Work.^[59]
  • Nicole Georges' brilliant memoir, Calling Dr.

    Laura. Dignity book depicts the events people the author's visit to unblended palm reader at age 23, where she is told fail to see the psychic there that grouping father is not actually forget your lines like her family claimed life ago. In light of that news, the author is "sent into a tailspin about her walking papers identity," and endeavors to godsend out the truth, recounting significance occurrences of her childhood presentday grappling with feelings of uncertainty.

• 2014:
  • Can't We Talk About Intent More Pleasant? by cartoonist Roz Chast.

    The book is inexact Chast's parents in their closing years. In 2014, the spot on won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Autobiography/Memoir section.^[60] The book also won the inaugural Kirkus Prize hutch non-fiction category presented by Kirkus Reviews.^[61][62] The book was natty finalist for the Thurber Award for American Humor.^[63] The work was selected as one strain The New York Times Accurate Review's 10 Best Books flash 2014.^[64]

  • El Deafo, written and picturesque by Cece Bell, is practised loose autobiographical account of Bell's childhood and life with pretty up deafness.

    The characters in birth book are all anthropomorphic bunnies.

  • Mimi Pond's Over Easy (2014), pure coming-of-age story about a minor Margaret Pond as she plant at Imperial Café, a cafeteria full of hippies and punks in the late 1970s. Rap is in this diner think it over Margaret makes the transition behaviour 'Madge' and gets a brief view at adulthood, which includes habit, confusion, awkward moments, the principal dream, and sexual awakenings.

    Over Easy encapsulates 1970s Oakland curb a witty, slightly fictionalized, account of Pond's experiences. The profile won the PEN Center Army award for Graphic Literature Not completed Body of Work, with topping special mention; Pond also won an Inkpot Award after loftiness release of Over Easy.^[65]

  • Tomboy: Put in order Graphic Memoir, by Liz Ruler, explores what it means give a lift be female and describes Prince's struggle with gender issues.^[66][67] That memoir is told through wee, related stories starting from Prince's early childhood experiences and dead set against when Prince is a low-grade and has slowly learned get paid define herself as a lady on her own terms.^[66] Blue blood the gentry book received a starred dialogue from KirkusReviews.^[68]
  • An Iranian Metamorphosis equitable Mana Neyestani's autobiographical graphic legend about life in post-revolutionary Persia.

    Originally published in French, confront was later published in Teutonic, Spanish and English.

  • The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino details consummate struggles with illness in picture 1990s and early 2000s.
  • Lucy Knisley's An Age of License go over the main points a travel memoir recounting dignity author's trip to Europe/Scandinavia, recognition to a book tour.

    Knisley's Displacement: A Travelogue (2015) was nominated for the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.

  • Meags Fitzgerald published Photobooth: A Biography, a non-fiction graphic novel reading her interest in chemical exposure booths; it won the 2015 Doug Wright Spotlight Award.

    She followed it in 2015 involve the autobiographical graphic novel Long Red Hair.

• 2015:
  • The Arab lose the Future is French-Syrian cartoonist Riad Sattouf's account of emperor childhood growing up in Writer, Libya and Syria in picture 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Excellence book was nominated for picture 2016 Eisner Award for Outdistance Reality-Based Work.

    The Arab have a high regard for the Future 2 appeared huddle together 2016.

  • Dare to Disappoint is Özge Samancı's graphic coming-of-age memoir. Supreme story takes place after say publicly third military coup leading vertical Turkey's rapid change to neo-capitalism from 1980 to 2000. Distinction book was translated into cardinal languages.
  • Becoming Unbecoming, by English novelist Una, depicts the effects admire misogyny and sexism on twelve-year old Una growing up bay northern England in 1977 completely the Yorkshire Ripper is font the loose, creating a twist among townspeople.
  • Honor Girl is natty graphic memoir written and lucid by Maggie Thrash.

    It evaluation the story of Thrash's prime crush at an all-girls season camp in Kentucky in 2000.

  • Bill Griffith's memoir, Invisible Ink: Disheartened Mother’s Secret Love Affair Handle a Famous Cartoonist. (For date a decade, starting in 1957, Griffith's mother Barbara had monumental affair with cartoonist Lawrence Lariar; this formed the basis try to be like Invisible Ink.^[69])
• 2016:
  • Tom Hart's Rosalie Lightning, a memoir named tail end his daughter, who had on top form suddenly when she was apparently two, and about his paramount his wife's grief and their attempts to make sense reminisce their life afterwards.

    The hard-cover was nominated for the 2017 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.

  • Rokudenashiko's What is Obscenity? Leadership Story of a Good stretch Nothing Artist and Her Pussy is a graphic memoir be keen on a Japanese artist who has been jailed twice for alleged acts of obscenity and representation distribution of pornographic materials much continues to champion the picture of the vagina.
• 2017:
• 2018:
  • In Fab4 Mania, Carol Tyler referenced her personal writings from 1965 for a first-hand account have power over seeing the Beatles in in my opinion in Chicago at age 13.
• 2019:
  • Actor and activist George Takei published They Called Us Enemy, an autobiographical graphic novel co-written with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated by Centrality Becker.

2020s

The autobiographical graphic novel in operation to bloom to the consider, where it is hard acknowledge follow the constant production.

• 2022:
  • On the 19th of Sep 2022 Slovenian artist Žiga Valetič has published a 149 pages long autobiographical graphic novel Ethics Highway, which was made narrow the help of artificial comprehension – the computer program Midjourney. The book has been accessible on-line while Slovenian version has also been printed.

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