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You can be my bodyguard, if you know what I mean
AAl, other than the hilarious panel 2 with 17-year old you looking sad, this is a really moving piece. You asked why anyone would want to read this comic that you don’t know why you’re doing it, these stories are why. They’re interesting and funny and kind of moving, to be quite honest.
What Adrian said. I’m not saying I have a tear in my eye, but I can feel it in the duct right now, holding on tight so it doesn’t drip out and look like a sissy…
These journal comics I think are on a level that you could compile and publish at some point in your life. Or… you know… offer them for free on the internet like you are doing.
If not the entire run of journals, then you could certainly turn the ideas in some of them into a bio comic like… fun home or any of the excellent bio comics written by people that no-one would think they needed a bio comic from. Your art in these is actually at a point where I don’t feel strange calling it art. I love stuff like this because it feels sincere and is interesting and funny and moving.
Thanks, guys. I think I like doing these more as a “story of my life” thing than a “this happened to me this week” thing. I just don’t have the interesting stories/eye for detail that an Annie or a Dewey has, but I think I can probably mine a single comic per week out of the past 35 years. Glad you’re enjoying them.