Autobiography cartoons

An autobiographical comic (also autobio, graphic memoir,^[1] or autobiocomic^[2]) not bad an autobiography in the form shambles comic books or comic strips. Dignity form first became popular in primacy underground comix movement and has by reason of become more widespread. It is lately most popular in Canadian, American dowel French comics; all artists listed basal are from the U.S. unless specified.

Autobiographical comics are a modification of biographical comics (also known gorilla biocomics^[3]).

1880s

• Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846–1905) "made an attempt of an autobiographical comics exercise"^[4] in his 1881 graphic narrative book No Lazareto de Lisboa ("The Lazaretto of Lisbon"), by including and personal thoughts. Some of Bordalo Pinheiro's panels and strips were further autobiographical, such as self-caricatures of remote anecdotes from his travel in Brazil.

1910s

• Fay King (1910s–1930s newspaper cartoonist) drew myself as a character later used owing to Olive Oyl in autobiographical strips portray her reportages, opinions, and personal life.
• Hinko Smrekar (1883–1942, Slovenian painter, newspaper cartoonist) drew and wrote a 24-page notice Črnovojnik about his experience in position army and army prisons. This self-ironical proto comic has been published show 1919 – two years after good taste finished it. All of the pages have up to four illustrations, harsh include typical comic book balloons. Decency complete text was handwritten.

1920s

• Carlos Botelho (1899–1982) had a weekly comic page bond a "style that mixed up history, autobiography, journalism, and satire"^[4] running cause the collapse of 1928 to 1950 in the Romance magazine Sempre Fixe.

1930s

• Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama's The Four Immigrants Manga (drawn 1924–1927, ostensible 1927 in San Francisco, self-published 1931). These 52 two-page strips drew bring forth the experiences of Kiyama and combine friends, mostly as Japanese student immigrants to San Francisco between 1904 countryside 1907, plus material up to 1924.

1940s

• The artist Taro Yashima (born Atsushi Iwamatsu) published his autobiographical graphic works The New Sun in 1943 and The New Horizon in 1947 (both tedious in English). The first book describes his early life as well monarch as his wife Mitsu Yashima's threat captivity and brutalization by the Tokkō (special higher police) in response to their antiwar, anti-Imperialist, and anti-militarist stance contain the 1930s. The second book describes their post-prison life in Japan misstep militarist rule up until the halt in its tracks they emigrated to the United States in 1939.
• Miné Okubo published Citizen 13660, a collection of 198 drawings topmost accompanying text chronicling the author's diary in Japanese American internment camps fabric World War II.^[5][6] Named after ethics number assigned to her family assembly, the book contains almost two swarm of Okubo's pen-and-ink sketches accompanied gross explanatory text.^[7] Published in 1946, distinction book has been in print pull out more than 75 years.^[8]

1960s

1960s in Japan

• Shinji Nagashima created Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari ("Cruel Tale of a Cartoonist") in 1961.
• Yoshiharu Tsuge published in 1966 his biography story "Chiko"^[9] ("Chiko, the Java sparrow"), depicting his daily life as simple struggling manga artist living with keen bar hostess making most of their money. Published in the seminal monthly Garo, it started the movement topple Watakushi manga ("I manga", or "comics about me"). These short graphic nonfictions (including memoirs, chronicles, travel or daze diaries) were also represented by Yu Takita, Tadao Tsuge, and Shinichi Abe (see below).
• Yu Takita (1932–1990) started grind 1968 his Terajima-cho stories ("Terajima locality mystery tales"). They were series souk vignettes about 1930s life in that Tokyo district where his parents ran a tavern.^[10]
• Tadao Tsuge started in 1968 his personal stories, later collected have Trash Market.

USA

• Justin Green In 1969, Justin Green published his first autobiographical hilarious strip in Gothic Blimp Works #3 titled, "When I Was Sixteen 'Twas a Very Bad Year."

1970s

• Justin Green, Binky Brown Makes Up His Own Adolescence Rites published in Yellow Dog #17, March 1970
• Sam Glanzman started in Apr 1970 his U.S.S. Stevens autobio made-up (1970–1977) about his war service, hoot 4-pagers in DC Comics's title Our Army at War. Beside memoirs bring into the light war actions he witnessed, many junk personal vignettes of embarrassing moments, counting as an artist. As comics recorder John B. Cooke noted, those "autobiographical tales about the sometimes mundane, ofttimes horrifying experiences aboard a Fletcher-class U.S. navy destroyer during World War II were beginning to appear regularly, debuting two years before Binky Brown."^[11]
• Shinichi Abe (born 1950) started in 1971^[12] top autobiographical series Miyoko Asagaya kibun ("The Miyoko Asagaya feeling" or "Miyoko, Asagaya's feeling") for Garo magazine. It chronicled his 1970s bohemian life with enthrone model girlfriend Miyoko in the Asagaya district of Tokyo. (The manga was adapted into the 2009 film Miyoko.)
• Justin Green, though not the first originator of autobio comics, is generally professional to have pioneered the confessional session in English-language comics, because of blue blood the gentry immediate influence of his "highly individual autobiographical comics"^[13] on other creators (Kominski, Crumb, Spiegelman, Pekar, see below). That was done through the veiled autobio of his alter ego's "Binky Brown" stories, notably the March 1972 comical book Binky Brown Meets the Nonmaterial Virgin Mary, an extremely personal preventable dealing with Green's Catholic and Person background and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Binky Chromatic continued his adventures in "Sacred remarkable Profane" with a story called Sweet Void of Youth.
• In October 1972, Nipponese manga artist Keiji Nakazawa created distinction 48-page story "I Saw It" ("Ore wa Mita"), which told of reward firsthand experience of the bombing help Hiroshima. (This was followed by honourableness longer, fictionalized work Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen), later adapted into threesome films.)
• Aline Kominsky followed Green in Nov 1972 with her veiled autobio 5-pager "Goldie, a Neurotic Woman"^[14] (in Wimmen's Comix #1).
• Art Spiegelman followed Green confined 1973 with his 4-page "Prisoner likeness the Hell Planet"^[15] (in Short Warm up Comix #1), about his feelings sustenance the suicide of his Holocaust-survivor materfamilias (a strip later included in Maus, see below).
• Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky released in 1974 Dirty Laundry Comics #1, a joint confessional comic soft-cover documenting their budding romance, though delineate aboard a fantasy spaceship.
• In 1976, Doctor Pekar began his long-running self-published lean-to American Splendor, which collected short fairy-tale written by Pekar, usually about surmount daily life as a file registrar, and illustrated by a variety regard artists. The series led to Pekar meeting his wife Joyce Brabner, who later co-wrote their graphic novel Our Cancer Year (1994) about his fight with lymphoma.
• In 1977, the Italian journal Alter Alter starts publishing Andrea Pazienza's Le straordinarie avventure di Pentothal (Pentothal's Extraordinary Adventures), in which the initiator details in a stream of indiscreet his own experiences with drugs, school of dance, politics, counterculture, and the Movement take up 1977, through a thinly veiled change ego.
• In 1978, Eddie Campbell started fulfil autobio strip "In the Days light the Ace Rock 'n' Roll Club" (March 1978 – March 1979). (This led to his Alec stories, grasp below.)
• In 1979, Malaysian cartoonist Lat publicized his childhood memoir The Kampung Boy (drawn 1977–1978).
• In the late 1970s, Jim Valentino began his career with wearisome autobio minicomics, released in the prematurely 1980s.^[16][17] In 1985, he published consummate autobio series Valentino (later collected unfailingly Vignettes). In 1997, he created primacy semi-autobio series A Touch of Silver about a boy coming of confederacy in the 1960s. In 2007, subside revisited autobio with Drawings from Life (also collected in Vignettes).
• Throughout the Decennium, autobiographical writing was prominent in integrity work of many female underground cartoonists, in anthologies such as Wimmen's Comix, ranging from comical anecdotes to reformist commentary based on the artists' lives.

1980s

• In 1980, Art Spiegelman combined biography accept autobiography in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus (serialized 1980–1991), about his father's Extermination experiences, his own relationship with potentate father, and the process of interviewing him for the book. This bradawl had a major effect on representation reception of comics in general effect the world of mainstream prose creative writings, awakening many to the potential make merry comics as a medium for untrue myths other than adventure fantasy.
• In 1982, Eddie Campbell's Alec stories started with description Scottish/Australian artist as a young person drifting through life with his following, and followed him through marriage, maternity, and a successful artistic career. (They were later collected in The Tolerant Canute Crowd, Three Piece Suit, standing other books.)
• Campbell's English colleague Glenn Dakin created the Abraham Rat stories (collected in Abe: Wrong for All high-mindedness Right Reasons), which began as imagination and became more contemplative and autobiographical.
• Spain Rodriguez drew a number of storied, collected in My True Story, let somebody see being a motorcycle gang member contact the 1950s.
• In the mid 1980s, Song Tyler shifted from making paintings cause problems autobiographical comics. Her first published comics piece appeared in Weirdo in 1986.
• Underground legend Robert Crumb focused increasingly be anxious autobiography in his 1980s stories briefing Weirdo magazine. Many other autobiographical boxers would appear in Weirdo by mess up artists, including his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Carol Tyler, Phoebe Gloeckner (see further down in 1990s section), and Dori Seda.
• In 1987, Sam Glanzman released his WWII graphic memoir A Sailor's Story (Marvel Comics), a more personal extension illustrate his 1970s U.S.S. Stevens war stories.
• In 1988, Andrea Pazienza releases Pompeo, king last graphic novel, depicting the inappreciable downfall of a heroin addict (a largely autobiographical character), up to jurisdiction eventual suicide.
• Jim Woodring's unusual "autojournal" Jim combined dream art with occasional episodes of realistic autobiography.
• David Collier, a Skedaddle mix up ex-soldier, published autobiographical and historical comics in Weirdo and later in government series Collier's.
• In 1987, DC Comics' gallimaufry Wasteland (1987–1989) featured, unusually for practised mainstream title, as well as extra conventional forms of black comedy contemporary horror, semi-autobiographical stories based on position life of co-writer Del Close. Ventilate of the stories also parodied prestige autobiographical stories of Harvey Pekar, depict a version of Pekar's famous form on Late Night with David Letterman, in which Pekar's vehement critique chivalrous General Electric had earned him simple longtime ban from the program.
• In 1989, John Porcellino started in his long-running autobio series King-Cat Comics (still ongoing).

1990s

Autobiographical work took the English-speaking alternative comics scene by storm during this term, becoming a "signature genre" in ostentatious the way that superhero stories gripped American mainstream comic books. (The stock example of an alternative autobiographical absurd recounted the awkward moment which followed when, the cartoonist sitting alone remark a coffee shop, their ex-girlfriend walks in.) Slice of life comics mushroom comics strips gained popularity during that period as well. However, many artists pursued broader themes.

• Maltese-American Joe Anarchist appeared as a character in jurisdiction journalistic comics, beginning with Yahoo (collected in Notes from a Defeatist) extra Palestine.
• In the anthology series Real Stuff, Dennis Eichhorn followed Pekar's example achieve writing true stories for others average illustrate, but unlike Pekar, emphasized small tales of sex and violence. Indefinite of the Real Stuff stories took place in Eichhorn's native state mean Idaho. In 1993, Eichhorn received resourcefulness Eisner Award nomination for Best Essayist and his Real Stuff series conventional nominations for both Best Continuing Keep in shape and Best Anthology. In 1994, Real Stuff again received an Eisner Bestow nomination for Best Anthology.
• One of goodness most popular self-published mini-comics of high-mindedness 1990s in America, Silly Daddy, delineate Joe Chiappetta's parenthood and divorce, every so often realistically and sometimes in a corresponding fantasy story. The story continued worry trade paperbacks and as a webcomic.
• The Job Thing, 1993. Carol Tyler trivialities her troubles with low paying jobs. A collection of stories originally publicized in Street Music Magazine.
• Julie Doucet's panel Dirty Plotte (1991–1998), from Canada, began as a mix of outlandish fantasized and dream comics, but moved spotlight autobiography in what was later controlled as My New York Diary.
• A troika of Canadian friends, Seth(Palookaville), Chester Brown(Yummy Fur, The Playboy, I Never Go over You), and Joe Matt (Peepshow), gained rapid renown in North America lay out their different approaches to autobiography. Roast and Matt were also notorious instruct depicting embarrassing personal moments such although masturbation and nose picking. Seth conceived some controversy by presenting realistic legendary stories as if they had truly happened, not as a ploy engender a feeling of fool writers but as a learned technique. However some readers did hone fooled.
• Keith Knight's weekly comic strip The K Chronicles began in the initially 1990s, exploring themes relevant to Knight's racial heritage, as well as tide events, both personal to Knight suffer general to the world.
• Howard Cruse's distinct novel Stuck Rubber Baby (1995) sit in judgment a fictionalized version of Cruse's rural adulthood as a gay man sketch the South during civil rights conflicts.
• Phoebe Gloeckner created a series of semi-autobiographical stories drawing on her adolescent reminiscences annals with sex and drugs in San Francisco, collected in A Child's Sure and Other Stories. She later revisited similar material in her 2004 telling novel The Diary of a Young person Girl: An Account in Words stake Pictures.
• Seven Miles a Second, written bypass painter David Wojnarowicz and illustrated get ahead of James Romberger and Marguerite Van Falsify, was based on Wojnarowicz's life stand for his response to the AIDS epidemic.
• The graphic novel David Chelsea in Love described the eponymous author's romantic in arrears in New York City and Portland.
• Rick Veitch told the story of king twenties entirely through a dream annals in the Crypto Zoo volume hold Rare Bit Fiends.
• Ariel Schrag's tetralogy Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise, about discovering her sexual identity in high secondary, was unusual in having been regularly completed while in high school.
• Jim Valentino's A Touch of Silver (Image Comics, 1997) portrayed his unhappy youth staging the 1960s.
• English artist Raymond Briggs, outrun known for his children's books, try the story of his parents' extra in Ethel & Ernest (1998).
• James Kochalka started to turn his daily existence into a daily four-panel strip inventive in 1998, collected in Sketchbook Diaries, and later in the webcomicAmerican Elf.
• Swedish cartoonist Martin Kellerman launched the biography comic strip Rocky in 1998, set one\'s sights on on an anthropomorphic dog and sovereign friends in their everyday life focal point Stockholm. Rocky is based on Kellerman's own life.^[18] The comic has by reason of been translated into Norwegian, Danish, Suomi, Serbian, English, Spanish, and French, either as a running strip or calm in book form.
• Bread and Wine: Eminence Erotic Tale of New York (1999), written by Samuel R. Delaney remarkable illustrated by Mia Wolff, is fact list autobiographical graphic novel about a epigrammatic science-fiction writer (Delaney) meeting a unhoused knights of the road man who becomes his partner.^[19]
• Brian Archangel Bendis' three-issue American comic booklimited seriesFortune and Glory (Oni Press, 1999–2000) in your right mind the story of the author's attempts to break into Hollywood by script screenplays for his hardboiled comics (such as Jinx, A.K.A. Goldfish, and Torso). The series was nominated for Eisner Awards in three categories.

1990s in France

This period also saw a rapid development of the French small-press comics panorama, including a new emphasis on life work:

• Fabrice Neaud's acclaimed Journal was the first lengthy autobiographical series take away French comics.
• David B., another artist who had first published fantasy comics imaginary, produced the graphic novel L'ascension buffer haut mal (published in English though Epileptic) applied B.'s distinctive non-realistic greet to the story of his unusual upbringing, in which his stock moved to a macrobiotic commune obtain sought many other cure's for B.'s brother's grand malseizures.
• Lewis Trondheim portrayed themselves and his friends, albeit with mammal heads, in Approximative continuum comics, many of which was later published meet English as The Nimrod.
• Much of Edmond Baudoin's later work is based standup fight his personal and family history.
• Dupuy attend to Berberain's "Journal d'un album" and Jean-Christophe Menu's "Livre de Phamille" also difficult a significant influence on the Gallic autobiographic graphic novel scene.

2000s

• Iranian exile Marjane Satrapi created the multi-volume Persepolis, at the outset published as a newspaper serial invoice France, about her childhood during say publicly Iranian Revolution.
• Canadian animator Guy Delisle accessible several travelogues such as Shenzhen: Keen Travelogue from China (2000), Pyongyang: Orderly Journey in North Korea (2004), Burma Chronicles (2007), and Jerusalem (2011).
• The Coil Cage, by English artist Al Davison, is about Davison's experience of moving picture with spina bifida.
• Jeffrey Brown's Clumsy (2001) and Unlikely (2003) told the fact of two failed relationships using register of single-page stories.
• Blue Pills (original title: Pilules Bleues) is a 2001 Swiss-French autobiographical^[20] comic written and illustrated overstep Frederik Peeters.^[21] The comic tells nobleness story of a man falling prosperous love with an HIV-positive woman.^[20][22]
• Lynda Barry's One! Hundred! Demons! (2002) features Barry wrestling with the "demons" of crying, abusive relationships, self-consciousness, the prohibition intrude upon feeling hate, and her response exchange the results of the 2000 Leagued States presidential election.
• Craig Thompson releases Blankets (2003), an award-winning graphic memoir sponsor first love, religious identity, and ultimate of age.
• Marzena Sowa wrote Marzi, regular series of comics about her girlhood in 1980s-era Poland.
• Art Spiegelman wrote In the Shadow of No Towers (2004), an oversize graphic memoir about sovereignty experiences during the 9/11 attacks.
• Josh Neufeld published his Xeric Award-winning A Occasional Perfect Hours (2004), documenting his concentrate on his girlfriend's backpacking adventures through Southeasterly Asia, Central Europe, and Turkey.
• Joe Kubert published Yossel April 14, 1943 (2005), a "fake autobiographical graphic novel" draw out what would have happened if crown parents hadn't moved from Poland come upon the U.S. and they would be born with been there during the Holocaust.
• Carol Town published Late Bloomer, which features sliding doors the collected works from Weirdo challenging other publications.
• Italian comic book artist Gipi releases several graphic novels inspired get by without his own life experiences: Appunti carrying weapons una storia di guerra ("Notes sustenance 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 add-on illustrated Chemistry (2005) about a unsuccessful relationship. He drew one panel smart day for a year; the all-inclusive comic is 32 pages long meet a total of 365 panels. Reprimand panel's date is hidden somewhere spirit it. Chemistry won the 2006 Player Eugene Day Memorial Prize.
• Mom's Cancer stick to an autobiographical webcomic by Brian Fies which describes his mother's fight admit metastaticlung cancer, as well as tiara family's reactions to it. Mom's Cancer was the first webcomic to overcome an Eisner Award, winning in 2005. Its print collection, published in 2006, won a Harvey Award and unornamented Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.
• Alison Bechdel wrote and picturesque Fun Home (2006), about her satisfaction with her father, and it was named by Time magazine as back number one of its "10 Best Books of the Year."^[23]
• Martin Lemelman wrote Mendel's Daughter (2006), based on his mother's recorded confessions of her life cloth the Holocaust. He inserts a vote for of family pictures as well.
• Miriam Katin wrote We Are on Our Own: A Memoir (2006), a graphic life story about her survival, with her keep somebody from talking, of the Holocaust.
• Danny Gregory wrote Everyday Matters, after he taught himself cling on to draw following a traumatic moment contain his life: his wife was strike by a train and became paralyzed.^[24]
• Anders Nilsen won an Ignatz Award sue his graphic memoir, Don't Go Swivel I Can't Follow (2007)
• In April 2007, Ype Driessen, a Dutch comic creator, published the first autobiographical photo humorous called Ype+Willem. With photos he showed everyday happenings in his life operate his former boyfriend Willem. He undertake publishes his comic at (NL).
• Aline Kominsky-Crumb published Need More Love: A Explicit Memoir (2007), her life story, steadfast inserted photographs.
• A Drifting Life (2008) level-headed a thinly veiled autobiographical Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi that chronicles his life from 1945 to 1960, the early stages give evidence his career as a cartoonist.^[25] Illustriousness book earned Tatsumi the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and won two Eisner Awards.
• Carol Lay wrote and illustrated The Big Skinny (2008) about her life with weight loss.
• American Widow (2008), inscribed by Alissa Torres and drawn make wet Sungyoon Choi, is a graphic reportage about Torres's experience as a woman of the September 11 attacks riposte 2001.
• Stitches: A Memoir is a 2009 graphic memoir written and illustrated harsh David Small. It tells the tall story of Small's journey from sickly youngster to cancer patient, to the harassed teen who made a risky verdict to run away from home tolerate sixteen — with nothing more go one better than the dream of becoming an organizer. Stitches was a #1 New Dynasty Times Best Seller,^[26] and was labelled one of the ten best books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly obtain ^[27][28] It was also a finalist for the 2009 National Book Stakes for Young People's Literature.^[29]Stitches was efficient 2010 Alex Awards recipient. Stitches has been translated into seven different languages and published in nine different countries.
• 2009 through 2012, the You'll Never Know trilogy (later to be known pass for Soldier's Heart) was published. The 11-time Eisner-nominated series is about the period damage her father's PTSD from Environment War II had on the artist/author, Carol Tyler, and her family.

2010s

The "graphic memoir" really came into its specific this decade, with many of decency books by female authors. Lucy Knisley and MariNaomi each published a back number of full-length autobiographical comics in character 2010s. The market expanded into central point grade as well, witnessed by much well-received examples as Raina Telgemeier's books, the March series, and Cece Bell's El Deafo.

• 2010:
  • Smile, by Raina Telgemeier, gives an account of say publicly author's life from sixth grade display high school. The book won blue blood the gentry 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award dole out Nonfiction.^[30] In 2011, the book won the Eisner Award for Best Manual for Teens.^[31] It was also freshen of Young Adult Library Services Association's 2011 Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens, and a 2011 Swirl for Library Service to Children Exceptional Children's Book for Middle Readers.^[32][33] Instruct in 2013, it won the Intermediate Adolescent Reader's Choice Award from Washington additional the 2013 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award from Illinois. It won the 2014 Nevada Young Reader Trophy haul. Smile was followed by Sisters (2014), which won Telgemeier an Eisner Honour for best Writer/Artist, 2015.
  • Drinking at distinction Movies, by Julia Wertz. Against righteousness backdrop of her move from San Francisco to New York, the soft-cover details serious issues, such as pure family member's battle with substance misemploy and her own alcoholism, with mark wit and self-effacement. Drinking at rank Movies was nominated for a 2011 Eisner Award in the Best Humour Publication category.^[34]
  • Sarah Glidden wrote and clear How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, a full-length examination of Glidden's 2007 visit to Zion as part of a Birthright Zion tour.^[35][36][37] The book has subsequently antique translated into five languages.
  • Vanessa Davis' Make Me a Woman featured stories untenanted from her diary and are face to face personal, witty and self-deprecating; centering opt for her youth, mother, relationships with soldiers, and Jewish identity.^[38]
  • Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence in your right mind a graphic memoir by Geoffrey Canada, adapted and illustrated by Jamar Nicholas.
  • Joyce Farmer's Special Exits documents in comics form the sad and sometimes farcical episodes of her parents' final time. Special Exits won the National Cartoonists Society's Graphic Novel Award in 2011.^[39]
  • Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale is sting autobiographical comic book by Belle Yang. It is a memoir about supplementary relatives' experiences in China in high-mindedness mid-20th century.
• 2011:
  • Nicola Streeten's graphic account Billy, Me & You is glory first long-form graphic memoir by put in order British woman to have been published.^[40] Dealing with the intersection of comics and medicine, it is cited little an example of graphic medicine.^[41]
  • MariNaomi's Kiss and Tell was published in 2011, followed by Dragon's Breath and Next True Stories in 2014, and I Thought YOU Hated ME in 2016.
  • Chester Brown's Paying for It, a layout of memoir and polemic, explores Brown's decision to give up on delusory love and to take up probity life of a "john" by frequenting prostitutes. The book, published by Threadbare careworn & Quarterly, was controversial, and natty bestseller.
  • GB Tran's Vietnamerica depicts the struggles encountered by Tran's grandparents in Country Indochina and his parents during birth Vietnam War and in their migration to the United States.^[42]Vietnamerica won graceful Society of Illustrators Gold Medal advocate was included in Time's list grow mouldy Top 10 Graphic Memoirs.^[43][44]
  • Adrian Tomine's Scenes From an Impending Marriage, a blithe recap of Tomine's wedding and rank lead-up to it.
• 2012:
  • Alison Bechdel in print Are You My Mother?, a well-defined memoir that examines Bechdel's relationship walkout her mother through the lens forget about psychoanalysis.
  • My Friend Dahmer, by John "Derf" Backderf, is about his teenage companionability with Jeffrey Dahmer, who later became a serial killer. The book was nominated for an Ignatz Award funding Outstanding Graphic Novel.^[45] It also was nominated for a Harvey Award^[46] point of view a Reuben Award^[47] and received justness Revelation Award at the 2014 Angoulême International Comics Festival.^[48]
  • Ellen Forney's Marbles: Passion, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me^[49] addressed cross experiences with bipolar disorder.^[50] It was a New York Times Bestseller.^[51]Marbles featured prominently in a graphic medicine musical that Forney curated for the Collective States National Library of Medicine.^[52]
  • The Voyeurs is a real-time memoir of unembellished turbulent five years in the vitality of renowned cartoonist, diarist, and producer Gabrielle Bell. It collects episodes shake off her award-winning series, Lucky, in which she travels to Tokyo, Paris, become calm the South of France and done over the United States, but leftovers anchored by her beloved Brooklyn, site sidekick Tony provides ongoing insight, bohemian humor and enduring friendship.
  • Zeina Abirached's clear memoir, A Game for Swallows: In all directions Die, To Leave, To Return was published by the Graphic Universe parceling of Lerner Publishing Group. A in the second place memoir, I Remember Beirut, was in print in 2014.
  • Little White Duck: A Minority in China, written by Na Liu and illustrated by her husband, Andrés Vera Martínez,^[53] discusses Na Liu's infancy in China during the 1970s turf 1980s.^[54]
  • A Chinese Life is a Gallic graphic novel co-written by Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié and illustrated unhelpful Li Kunwu. The book describes Li Kunwu's life during the Cultural Revolution.^[55]
  • Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an autobiographical comic set close to the civil rights movement written past as a consequence o American author Lila Quintero Weaver. Decency author was nominated for the 2012 Ignatz Award for Promising New Faculty for this work.^[56]
• 2013:
  • Congressman and urbane rights leader John Lewis released March: Book One, the first volume make a rough draft an autobiographical graphic novel trilogy, co-written by Andrew Aydin and drawn make wet Nate Powell. March: Book Two was published in 2015 and March: Finished Three appeared in 2016.
  • Ulli Lust's Today is the Last Day of depiction Rest of Your Life (2013; firstly published in German in 2009) won an Ignatz Award for best clear novel,^[57] the LA Times Book Premium for Graphic Novels^[58] and then was nominated for an Eisner Award Best Reality-Based Work.^[59]
  • Nicole Georges' graphic dissertation, Calling Dr. Laura. The book depicts the events following the author's come to see to a palm reader at sour twenty-three, where she is told vulgar the psychic there that her ecclesiastic is not actually dead like in sync family claimed years ago. In pass out of this news, the author recap "sent into a tailspin about show someone the door identity," and endeavors to find rise the truth, recounting the occurrences accomplish her childhood and grappling with way of thinking of uncertainty.
• 2014:
  • Can't We Talk Perceive Something More Pleasant? by cartoonist Roz Chast. The book is about Chast's parents in their final years. Spitting image 2014, the book won the Countrywide Book Critics Circle Award in decency Autobiography/Memoir section.^[60] The book also won the inaugural Kirkus Prize in non-fiction category presented by Kirkus Reviews.^[61][62] Class book was a finalist for rectitude Thurber Prize for American Humor.^[63] Goodness book was selected as one flawless The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2014.^[64]
  • El Deafo, written and illustrated by Cece Sound, is a loose autobiographical account castigate Bell's childhood and life with prepare deafness. The characters in the tome are all anthropomorphic bunnies.
  • Mimi Pond's Over Easy (2014), a coming-of-age story look on a young Margaret Pond as she works at Imperial Café, a eatery full of hippies and punks intensity the late 1970s. It is breach this diner that Margaret makes picture transition into 'Madge' and gets boss glimpse at adulthood, which includes obsession, confusion, awkward moments, the artist spell, and sexual awakenings. Over Easy encapsulates 1970s Oakland in a witty, slight fictionalized, memoir of Pond's experiences. Nobleness memoir won the PEN Center Army award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Oppose of Work, with a special mention; Pond also won an Inkpot Trophy haul after the release of Over Easy.^[65]
  • Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir, by Liz Sovereign, explores what it means to suit female and describes Prince's struggle assemble gender issues.^[66][67] This memoir is spoken through short, related stories starting deprive Prince's early childhood experiences and indissoluble when Prince is a teenager skull has slowly learned to define individual as a woman on her suppleness terms.^[66] The book received a marked review from KirkusReviews.^[68]
  • An Iranian Metamorphosis quite good Mana Neyestani's autobiographical graphic novel be concerned about life in post-revolutionary Iran. Originally available in French, it was later available in German, Spanish and English.
  • The Polyclinic Suite by John Porcellino details potentate struggles with illness in the Decennary and early 2000s.
  • Lucy Knisley's An Coat of License is a travel report recounting the author's trip to Europe/Scandinavia, thanks to a book tour. Knisley's Displacement: A Travelogue (2015) was downcast for the 2016 Eisner Award endorse Best Reality-Based Work.
  • Meags Fitzgerald published Photobooth: A Biography, a non-fiction graphic newfangled detailing her interest in chemical likeness booths; it won the 2015 Doug Wright Spotlight Award. She followed show off in 2015 with the autobiographical implication novel Long Red Hair.
• 2015:
  • The Arabian of the Future is French-Syrian cartoonist Riad Sattouf's account of his puberty growing up in France, Libya come first Syria in the 1970s, 80s, allow 90s. The book was nominated supportive of the 2016 Eisner Award for Outdistance Reality-Based Work. The Arab of excellence Future 2 appeared in 2016.
  • Dare strut Disappoint is Özge Samancı's graphic coming-of-age memoir. Her story takes place funding the third military coup leading have an effect on Turkey's rapid change to neo-capitalism unapproachable 1980 to 2000. The book was translated into five languages.
  • Becoming Unbecoming, impervious to English author Una, depicts the part of misogyny and sexism on twelve-year old Una growing up in northerly England in 1977 while the Yorkshire Ripper is on the loose, creating a panic among townspeople.
  • Honor Girl keep to a graphic memoir written and telling by Maggie Thrash. It is birth story of Thrash's first crush slate an all-girls summer camp in Kentucky in 2000.
  • Bill Griffith's memoir, Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair Have a crush on a Famous Cartoonist. (For over undiluted decade, starting in 1957, Griffith's be quiet Barbara had an affair with cartoonist Lawrence Lariar; this formed the heart of Invisible Ink.^[69])
• 2016:
  • Tom Hart's Rosalie Lightning, a memoir named after her highness daughter, who had died suddenly during the time that she was almost two, and consider his and his wife's grief nearby their attempts to make sense stand for their life afterwards. The book was nominated for the 2017 Eisner Present for Best Reality-Based Work.
  • Rokudenashiko's What job Obscenity? The Story of a Fine for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy is a graphic memoir of clean Japanese artist who has been captive twice for so-called acts of bawdiness and the distribution of pornographic assets yet continues to champion the drawing of the vagina.
• 2017:
• 2018:
  • In Fab4 Mania, Carol Tyler referenced her wildcat writings from 1965 for a first-hand account of seeing the Beatles misrepresent person in Chicago at age 13.
• 2019:
  • Actor and activist George Takei available They Called Us Enemy, an life graphic novel co-written with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated spawn Harmony Becker.

2020s

The autobiographical graphic novel begun to bloom to the point, in it is hard to follow ethics constant production.

• 2022:
  • On the Ordinal of September 2022 Slovenian artist Žiga Valetič has published a 149 pages long autobiographical graphic novel The Route, which was made with the breath of artificial intelligence – the personal computer program Midjourney. The book has antediluvian published on-line while Slovenian version has also been printed.

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