AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS; The Historical List

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

THE HISTORICAL LIST (of almost 450 titles)

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Autobiography, semi-autobiography, autofiction, testimony, self-confession, memoirs, chronicles and journalism in contemporary sequential art

Compiled by Žiga Valetič in September 2022

CATEGORIES

1. CHILDHOOD, SCHOOL, GROWING UP, GROWING OLD

2. (MENTAL) HEALTH

3. ROMANCE, RELATIONSHIP, SEX, GENDER

4. LOCAL CHRONICLES, TRAVELOGUES

5. WAR, SOCIAL UNREST, CATASTROPHES

6. MIGRATION, REFUGE

7. THE QUESTION OF COMIC ARTISTRY

8. SIMPLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

Some books combine various themes. I had to decide the category that I belived was prevalent. I mostly chose to use English titles.

To make this compilation I‘ve searched through many lists in many books and the internet. One by one. Title by tile, author by author, with the help of www.goodreads.com. In the last five years we‘ve seen a global explosion of comics and especially of autobiographical comics, ever so bold and provocative. But the language barriers remain and I‘m sure some titles are missing. Still there are 428 titles in this list, that‘s why I consider it the most complete list of autobiographical comics you can find.

Žiga Valetič (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

1. CHILDHOOD, SCHOOL, GROWING UP, GROWING OLD CHILDHOOD

• Keiji Nakazawa: Barefoot Gen (1973) Japan

• Carlos Giménez: Paracuellos (1975), Spain

• LAT: Kampung Boy (1979); Maleysia

• Edmond Baudoin: Couma Acò (2005); France

• Riad Sattouf: Esther‘s Diaries (2016)

• Na Liu, Andrés Vera Martínez: Little White Duck (2012), China

• Jessica Dee Humpreys, Michel Chikwanine, Claudia Davila: Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War (2015); Congo

• Marzena Sowa, Sylvain Savoia: Marzi (2005); Poland

• Raina Telgemeier: Smile (2009), Sisters (2014), Guts; USA

• Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham: Real Friends (2017), Best Friends (2019), Friends Forever (2021), USA

• Christina Soontornvat: The Tryout: A Graphic Novel (2022), USA

• Sarah Winifred Searle: The Greatest Thing (2022); USA

• Alma Thörn: Alltid hejdå (2020); Sweden

• Juliana Hyrri: Päivänkakkarameri (2022); Estonia

MUSLIM WORLD

• Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2000); Iran

• Parsua Bashi: Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran (2009); Iran

• Riad Sattouf: Arab of the Future (celotno obdobje, ki ga zajema: 1978–1994) (2014–2020; pet delov); Libya, Siria

• Ozge Samanci: Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey (2015); Turkey

EUROPE

• Max Cabanes: Heartthrobs (1991); Spain

• Judith Forest: 1h25 (2009); false autobiography

• Andreas Michalke: Smalltown Boy (1999); Germany

• Matej Kocjan: Pagatova izpoved (2005); Slovenia

• Tobi Damien: Fahrradmods (2015); Germany

• Una: Becoming Unbecoming (2015); Scotland

• Anja Dahle Øverbye: Dog Days (Life) (2017); Norway

• Suvi Ermilä: Jälki (2018); Finland

• Jean-Marc Rochette, Olivier Bocquet: Altitude (2020); France

• Primož Krašna: Dom; Slovenia

USA, CANADA

• Will Eisner: To the Heart of the Storm (1991)

• Harvey Pekar, Dean Haspiel: The Quitter (2006)

• Ariel Schrag: Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (144), Potential (2008), Likewise (2009)

• Peter Kuper: Stripped (1995)

• Howard Cruse: Stuck Rubber Baby (1995)

• Jim Valentino: A Touch of Silver (1997)

• Lynda Barry: One! Hundred! Demons! (2002), What It Is (2008)

• Miss Lasko-Gross: Escape from »Special« (2006), A Mess of Everything (2009)

• Craig Thompson: Blankets (2003)

• John Porcellino: Perfect Example (2005)

• Lauren R. Weinstein: Girl Stories (2006)

• Andrew Winegarner, Dan Millman: Peacefull Warrior (2010)

• Alison Bechdel: Fun Home (2006); Are You My Mother (2012)

• Mike Dawson: Freddie & Me: A Coming of Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody (2008)

• David Small: Stitches (2009)

• Geoffrey Canada, Jamar Nicholas: Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence, A True Story in Black and White (2010; po knjigi 1995)

• Cristy C. Road: Spit and Passion (2012)

• Derf Backderf: My Friend Dahmer (2012)

• Natalie Nourigat: Between Gears (2012); I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation (2019)

• Gilbert Hernández: Marble Season (2013)

• Nicole J. Georges: Calling Dr. Laura (2013)

• Ramsey Beyer: Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year (2013)

• Mimi Pond: Over Easy (2014); The Customer Is Always Wrong (2017)

• Jimmy Grownley: The Dumbest Idea Ever!: A Graphic Novel (2014)

• Colleen Frakes: Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir (2015)

• Tillie Walden: Spinning (2017)

• Jarrett J. Krosoczka: Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction (2018)

• Marinaomi: Trilogy Life On Earth (2018; Losing the Girl, Gravity‘s Pull, Distant Stars); I Thought You Hated Me (2016); Dragon‘s Breath and Other True Stories (2014); Turning Japanese (2016); Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 (2011),

• Liana Finck: Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir (2018)

• Marianne Boucher: Talking To Strangers (2020)

• Guy Delisle: Factory Summers (2021)

• Jessica Campbell: Rave (2022)

• Annco: Bad Friends (2018); Nineteen (2020)

GROWING OLD

• Jerry Moriarty: Jack Survives (1984)

• Olivier Schrauwen: Arsène Schrauwen (2014)

• Joyce Farmer: Special Exits (2010)

• Aneurin Wright: Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park (2012)

• Roz Chast: Can‘t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (2014)

• Lucy Knisley: Displacement: A Travelogue (2015)

• Raymond Briggs: Ethel & Ernest (1998); Time for Lights Out (2019)

2. (MENTAL) HEALTH

GENERAL

• Darryl Cunningham: Psychiatric Tales (2010)

• Paul Peterson, Jason Gilmore, John Porcellino: The Next Day: A Graphic Novella (2011)

• Mikaël Ross: The Thud (2021)

DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR DISORDER

• Elizabeth Swados: My Depression: A Picture Book (2005)

• Jesse Reklaw: Couch Tag (2013); Keeping Score (2019)

• Allie Brosh: Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (2013)

• Brick: Depresso, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Being Bonkers (2010)

• Ellen Forney: Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me (2012)

• Ryan Dow: Pretending You‘re Not Crazy (2012)

• Rachel Lindsay: Rx (2018)

• Chuck Mullin: Bird Brain: Comics About Mental Health, Starring Pigeons (2019)

• Espé, Hannah Chute: The Parakeet (2021)

• Teresa Wong: Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression (2019)

• Margaret Kimball: And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir (2021)

INTROVERT (not a disease, really)

• Debbie Tung: Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert‘s Story (2017)

EATING DISORDERS

• Nadia Shivack: Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder (2007)

• Lesley Fairfield: Tyranny (2009)

• Katie Green: Lighter Than My Shadow (2013); also abuse

• Carol Lay: The Big Skinny: How I Changed My Fattitude (2008)

OTHER MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

• Justin Green: Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (1972); OCD

• Adam Bourret: I‘m Crazy (2009)

• Jason Adam Katzenstein: Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures (2020)

• Madison Clell: Cuckoo (2002); Multiple Personality Disorder

• Laurie Sandell: The Impostor‘s Daughter: A True Memoir (2009); split personality in parent

• Tracy White: How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story (2010)

ALCOHOLISM, ADDICTION

• Andrea Pazienza: Pompeo (1988)

• Jonathan Ames, Dean Haspiel: The Alcoholic (2008)

• David Hughes: Walking the Dog (2009)

• Kabi Nagata: My Alcoholic Escape From Reality (2019)

• Mariko Kikuchi: A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad‘s an Alcoholic (2021)

AUTISM and ASPERGER SYNDROME

• Paul Karasik: The Ride Together: A Brother and Sister‘s Memoir of Autism in the Family (2004)

• Keiko Tobe: With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child (2007)

• Daniela Schreiter: The World Beyond My Shadow (2016)

• Maria and Me: A father, a daughter (2017); avtizem

• Nathan McConnell: Growing Up Aspie: Year One: A collection of comics about growing up with Aspergers Syndrome (2017)

• Kaveh N. Adel: Aspersian: Autobiographical Graphic Novel, A Journey in Embracing Oddity (2019)

• Julie Dachez, Mademoiselle Caroline: Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger‘s, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color (2020)

• Yvon Roy: Little Victories (2020)

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THE BODY

• Ian Williams: The Bad Doctor (2014)

• David B: Epileptic (2002); epilepsy

• Iasmin Omar Ata: Mis(h)adra (2017)

• Al Davison: The Spiral Cage (2003, spina bifida) + Spiral Dreams (2000)

• Ken Dahl (Gabby Schulz): Monsters (2009); herpes

• Julia Wertz: The Infinite Wait and Other Stories (2012)

• Jason Reynolds, Jasson Griffin: Oxygen Mask (2022); COVID-19

• Cece Bell: El Dafo (2014); deafness

• Peter Dunlap-Shohl: My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson‘s (2015)

• Pozla: Carnet de santé foireuse (2015); Chron‘s disease

• Ciril Horjak: Endodontostrip (2017); visits at the dentist

CANCER, TUMOR

• Joyce Brabner, Harvey Pekar, Frank Stack: Our Cancer Year (1994)

• Stan Mack: Janet & Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss (2004)

• Marisa Acocella Marchetto: Cancer Vixen (2006)

• Bryan Fries: Mom‘s Cancer (2006)

• Miriam Engelberg: Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics (2006)

• John Porcellino: The Hospital Suite (2014)

• Jennifer Hayden: The Story of My Tits (2015)

• Matt Freedman: Relatively Indolent but Relentless: A Cancer Treatment Journal (2014)

• Aj Dungo: In Waves (2019)

• Élodie Durand: Parenthesis (2021)

• Kimiko Tobimatsu, Keet Geniza: Kimiko Does Cancer (2020)

• L‘homme étoilé: A la vie! (2020)

ABORTION

• Lesli Stein: I Know You Rider (2020) AIDS

• David Wojnarowicz, James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook: 7 Miles a Second (1996)

• Judd Winick: Pedro and Me (2000)

• Frederik Peeters: Blue Pills (2001)

ALZHEIMER‘S DISEASE

• Sarah Leavitt: Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer‘s, My Mother, and Me (2010)

• Dana Walrath: Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass (Graphic Medicine) (2016)

• Valerie Villieu, Raphaël Sarfati: Little Josephine: Memory in Pieces (2020)

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MOURNING

• Willy Linhout: Years of the Elephant (2009)

• Nicola Streen: Billy, Me & You: A Graphic Memoir of Grief and Recovery (2011)

• Anders Nilsen, Cheryl Weaver: Don‘t Go Where I Can‘t Follow (2007)

• Alissa Torres, Sungyoon Choi: American Widow (2008)

• Hanneriina Moisseinen: Isä = Father (2013)

• Marissa Moss: Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love (2017)

• Tom Hart: Rosalie Lighting (2016)

• Luz: Catharsis (2015); Indélébiles (2018); Charlie Hebdo

• Catherine Meurisse: La Légèreté (2016); Charlie Hebdo

3. ROMANCE, RELATIONSHIP, SEX, GENDER

EXPLORING ROMANCE AND PARTNERSHIP (AND A LITTLE BIT OF PARENTING)

• Robert Crumb: My Troubles With Women (1998) and more

• Robert Crumb in Aline Kominsky-Crumb: Drawn Together: The Collected Works of R. and A. Crumb (2012); The Complete Dirty Laundry Comics (1992)

• Sylvie Rancourt: Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer (1985)

• Chester Brown: The Playboy (1992), I Never Liked You (1994), Paying fot It (2011)

• Joe Matt: Peepshow (1999), The Poor Bastard (2002), Fair Weather (2002), Spent (2007)

• Jeffrey Brown: Loved and Lost: A Realtionship Trilogy; Every Girl is the End of the World For Me (2006)

• David Chelsea: David Chelsea in Love (2003)

• Markus Mawil: We Can Still Be Friends (2003)

• Liz Prince: Will You Still Love Me If I Wet in Bed (2005); Delayed Replays (2008)

• Flix (Felix Görmann): trilogy Held (Held, 2003; Sag was, 2004; Mädchen, 2006)

• Vanessa Davis: Make Me a Woman (2010); Spaniel Rage (2005)

• John Porcellino: Map of My Heart (2009)

• Jennifer Hayden: Underwire (2011)

• Adrian Tomine: Scenes From an Impending Marriage (2011)

• Guy Delisle: A User‘s Guide to Neglectful Parenting (2013)

• Moyoco Anno: Insufficient Direction (2014)

• Pascal Girard: Petty Theft (2014)

• Bill Griffith: Invisible Ink: My Mother‘s Love Affair With A Famous Cartoonist (2015)

• Dominique Goblet: Pretending Is Lying (2017)

• Debbie Tung: Happily Ever After & Everything In Between (2020)

• Lucy Knisley: Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride (2016; marriage), Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos (2019, pregnancy); Go To Sleep (2020; motherhood)

ABUSE

• Debbie Drechsler: Daddy‘s Girl (1996)

• Phoebe Glockner: A Child’s Life and other stories (1998) + The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2002)

• Rosalind B. Penfold: Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like (2006)

• Laurie Halse Anderson; Emily Carroll: Speak (2018)

• Julie Doucet: Time Zone J (2022)

• Emily Carrington: Our Little Secret (2022)

LGBTQIA+

• Mary Wings: Come Out Comics (1973); Dyke Shorts (1978)

• Fabrice Neaud: Journal (1996) and more

• Samuel R. Delaney, Mia Wolff: Bread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York (1999)

• Katie Rain Hill, Ariel Schrag: Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition (2014)

• A. K. Summers: Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag (2014)

• Liz Prince: Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir (2014)

• Maggie Thrash: Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir (2015)

• Elizabeth Beier: The Big Book of Bisexual Trials and Errors (2017)

• Julia Kaye: Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition (2018)

• Michelle Perez, Remy Boydell: The Pervert (2018)

• Maia Kobaba: Gender Queer (2019)

• Vivek Shraya, Ness Lee: Death Threat (2019)

• Eleanor Crewes: The Times I Knew I Was Gay: A Graphic Memoir (2020)

• Kabi Nagata: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (2017), My Solo Exchange Diary (2018– ), My Wandering Warrior Existence (2022)

• Bishakh Kumar Som: Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir (2020)

• Sophie Yanow: The Contradictions (2020)

• Rebecca Burgess: How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual (2020)

• Rhea Ewing: Fine: A Comic About Gender (2022)

• Emma Grove: The Third Person (2022)

4. LOCAL CHRONICALS, TRAVELOGUES THE PIONEER STUFF

• Frans Masereel: Passionate Journey – My Book of Hours

ASIA

Japan

• Yu Takita: Terajima-cho stories (Terajima neighborhood mystery tales) (1968)

• Tadao Tsuge: Trash Market (1968), Slum Wolf (2018, in USA)

• Shinichi Abe: Miyoko Asagaya kibun (The Miyoko Asagaya feeling) (1971)

• Yoshiharu Tsuge: The Swamp (2020, in USA), Red Flowers (2021, in USA)

• Frédéric Boilet: Yukiko‘s Spinach (2001), Love Hotel (1993), Tôkyô est mon jardin (1997) and Demi-tour (1997)

• Dirk Schwieger: Moresukine: Uploaded Weekly from Tokyo: Expat in Japan Experiences All Things Japanese as Ordered Online (2008)

India

• Orijit Sen: The River of Stories (1994) and more

• Gita Wolf, Anushka Ravishankar, Orijit Sen: Trash!: On Ragpicker Children and Recycling (2004)

• Sarnath Banerjee: The Harapa Files (2011) and more

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China

• Li Kunwu: A Chinese Life (2012)

• Belle Yang: Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale (2010); Baba: A Return To China Upon My Father‘s Shoulders (1996); The Odyssey of a Manchurian (1996)

AROUND THE WORLD

• Gerard van Straaten, Eilco Kasemier: Alleen rond de wereld (1982)

• Peter Kuper: ComicsTrips: A Journal of Travels Through Africa and Southeast Asia (1992); Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico (2009)

• Josh Neufeld: A Few Perfect Hours and Other Stories from Southeast Asia and Central Europe (2004)

• Guy Delisle: Pyongiang (2003); Shenzen: A Travelogue From China (2000); Burma Chronicles (2007)

NORTH AFRICA

• Guy Delisle: Chroniques de Jérusalem (2011)

• Marjane Satrapi: Embroideries (2003), Chicken With Plums (2004)

• Sarah Glidden: How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (2010)

• Magdy El Shafee: Metro: A Story of Cairo (2012)

• Olivia Burton, Mahi Grand: Algeria Is Beautiful Like America (2018)

• Craig Thompson: Carnet de Voyage (2006)

USA

• Will Eisner: A Contract With God nad Other Tenement Stories (1978); New York: Life in the Big City (2006)

• Harvey Pekar, Joseph Remnant: Harvey Pekar‘s Cleveland (2012)

• Eve Gilbert: Tits, Ass, & Real Estate: An Autobiographical Road Trip Through the Other America (2003)

• Thor Jensen: Red Eye, Black Eye (2007)

• David Collier: Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey (2017)

• Eleanor Davis: You & a Bike & a Road (2017)

• Kristen Radtke: Imagine Wanting Only This (2017)

• Kristen Radtke: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (2021)

• Kate Beaton: Ducks (2022)

EUROPE

• Ulli Lust: Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life (2013)

• Jérémie Dres: We Won‘t See Auschwitz (2012)

• Lucy Knisley: French Milk (2007); An Age of License: A Travelogue (2014)

• Gabrielle Bell: Truth is Fragmentary: Travelogues & Diaries (2014)

• Natalie Nourigat: Tally Marks: Eurotrip sketchbook (series)

• Tiitu Takalo: Me, Mikko, and Annikki: A Community Love Story in a Finnish City (2019)

• Natascha Vollenweider: Fußnoten (2017); Germany/Argentina

5. WAR, SOCIAL UNREST, CATASTROPHES

THE PIONEER STUFF

• Hinko Smrekar: Črnovojnik (1919), Slovenia

THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Europe

• Art Spiegelmann: Maus (1986)

• Martin Lemelman, Gusta Lemelman: Mendel‘s Daughter: A Memoir (2006)

• Miriam Katin: We Are On Our Own (2006)

• Barbara Yelin: Irmina (2014)

• Julia Alekseyeva: Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution (2017)

• Lina Itagaki: Siberian Haiku (2020); Lithuania

• Emmanuel Guibert: Alan‘s War (2008), France

• Peter Pontiac: Kraut (2011)

• Boris Pahor, Jurij Devetak: Nekropola (2022); Sovenia

USA

• Sam Glanzman: U.S.S. Stevens (1970–1977); A Sailor‘s Story (1987)

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Asia

• Taro Yashima: The New Sun (1943), The New Horizont (1947); Japonska

• Shigeru Mizuki: Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (2011); Japonska

• Keum Suk Gendry-Kim: Grass (2019); Korea

• Keum Suk Gendry-Kim: The Waiting (2021); Korea

AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Asia

• Lun Zhang: Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes (2020); China

• Emei Burell: We Served the People: My Mother‘s Stories (2020); China

• Tian Veasna: Year of the Rabbit (2020); Cambodia

Joe Sacco in comic war journalism

Joe Sacco: Palestine (1993), Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992–1995 (2000), The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo (2003; Notes from a Defeatist (2003), Footnotes in Gaza (2009), Paying the Land (2020)

Muslim world

• Carol Isaacs: The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir of a Lost Homeland (2020)

• Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, Fréderic Lemercier: The Photographer (2009)

• Ari Foman, David Polonsky: Waltz With Bashir: A Lebanon War Story (2009)

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• Zeina Abirached: A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return (2012), I remember Beirut (2014); Lebanon

• Mana Neyestani: An Iranian Metamorphosis (2014)

• Sarah Glidden: Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (2016)

• Don Brown: The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees (2018)

• Anaële Hermans, Delphine Hermans: Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine (2018)

• Toufic El Rassi: Babylon Burning: A Graphic History of the Making of the Modern Middle East (2019)

• Andy Warner: Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love, Madness, and Revolutions (2020)

Europe

• Kim, Antonio Altariba: The Art of Flying (2015); Spain

• Vittorio Giardino: Jonas Fink (1991); Prague

• Aleksandar Zograf: Regards from Serbia: A Cartoonist‘s Diary of a Crisis in Serbia (2007)

• Harvey Pekar, Heather Roberson, Ed Piskor: Macedonia: What Does It Take to Stop a War? (2012)

• Mirim Katin: Letting It Go (2013)

• Simon Schwartz: The Other Side of The Wall (2015); Berlin wall

• Nina Bunjevac: Očetnjava (2014)

• Guy Delisle in ujetnik: Hostage (2017)

Russia

• Nikolai Maslov: Siberia (2006)

• Emmanuel Lepage: Springtime in Chernobyl (2012)

• Victoria Lomasko: Other Russias (2017)

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USA

• Carol Tyler: You‘ll Never Know / Soldier‘s Heart (2009–2012)

• Will Eisner: Last Day in Vietnam (2000)

• Don Lomax: Vietnam Journal (2003)

• Lila Quintero Weaver: Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White (2012)

• Art Spiegelmann: In the Shadow of No Towers (2004)

• Josh Neufeld: A. D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (2009)

• David Collier: Chimo (2011)

• Don Brown: Drowned City (2015), America is Under Attack (2011), In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers (2022), The Great American Dust Bowl

• Maximilian Uriarte: Terminal Lance: The White Donkey (2016)

• Nate Powell, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin: March (1–3) (2015); Run (2021)

• Lauren Tarshis: I Survived (series)

• Brian Fries: A Fire Story (2019)

• Različni avtorji: Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison (2020)

• Mannie Murphy: I Never Promised You a Rosegarden (2021)

• Nate Powell: Save It for Later (2022)

South America

• Inverna Lockpez: Cuba: My Revolution (2010)

• Jesús Cossio, Luis Rossell, Alfredo Villar: Rupay. Historias gráficas de la violencia en el Perú 1980-1984 (2008); Barbarie, violencia política en el Perú, 1985-1990 (2010)

• Augusto Mora: Grito de Victoria (2013)

• Augusto Mora: Illegal Cargo (2020)

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6. MIGRATION, REFUGE CHILDREN AND YOUTH

• Jung: Approved for Adoption (2007); Korea/Netherlands

• Fabien Toulmé: Hakim‘s Odyssey (1–3) (2018)

• Robin Ha: Almost American Girl (2020)

• Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed: When Stars Are Scattered (2020); Somalia/Kenya

GROWN UPS

• Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama: The Four Immigrants Manga (1931)

• Miné Okubo: Citizen 13660 (1946)

• George Takei, Eisinger, Scott, Harmony Becker: They Called Us Enemy (2019)

• Helena Klakočar Vukšič: Nemirno morje (2000)

• Toufic El Rassi: Arab in America (2008)

• G. B. Tran: Vietnamerica: A Family‘s Journey (2011)

• Samira Kentrić: Balkanalije (2015)

• Thi Bui: The Best We Could Do (2018)

• Jake Halpern, Michael Sloan: Welcome to the New World (2020)

• Različni avtorji: Our Stories Carried Us Here (2021)

• Laura Gao: Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a WuhaneseAmerican (2022)

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7. THE QUESTION OF COMIC ARTISTRY

• Shinji Nagashima: The Harsh Story of a Manga Artist (Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari) (1961–1964)

• Yoshiharu Tsuge: Chiko, the Java sparrow (1966)

• Marcel Gotlib: Rubrique-á-brac (1970)

• Yoshiharu Tsuge: The Man Without Talent (1986)

• Carlos Giménez: Todo Los Profesionales (1981–2003)

• Julie Doucet: My New York Diary (1991–1998)

• Philippe Dupuy, Charles Berberian: Journal d‘un album (1995; english title Maybe Later)

• Martin Kellerman: Rocky (1998)

• Brian Michael Bendis: Fortune and Glory (1999–2000)

• Steven T. Seagle, Teddy Kristiansen: It’s a Bird (2004)

• Will Eisner: Life in Pictures (2007)

• Seth: It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken (2007)

• Nicolas Mahler: Kunsttheorie versus Frau Goldgruber (2007)

• Yoshihiro Tatsumi: A Drifting Life (2008)

• Jeffrey Brown: Funny Misshapen Body (2009)

• Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist (2010)

• Allen Say: Drawing From Memory (2011)

• Étienne Davodeau: The Initiates: A Comic Artist and a Wine Artisan Exchange Jobs (2011)

• Rokudenashiko: What Is Obscenity?: The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy (2016)

• Daria Bogdanska: Wage Slaves (2019)

• Adrian Tomine: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (2020)

• Frederik Peeters: Oleg (2021)

8. SIMPLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

• Harvey Pekar (writer): American Splendor (1976–1991); Another Day (2007)

• Robert Crumb: many books

• Aline Kominsky Crumb: Love That Bunch (1990), Need More Love (2007) and more

• Andrea Pazienza: Le straordinarie avventure di Pentothal (1977)

• Eddie Campbell: Alec (1984) and more

• Jim Woodring: Jim: Jim Woodring‘s Notorious Autojournal (2014)

• Dori Seda: Lonely Night Comics (1986); Dori Seda: Dori Stories (1999)

• Joe Chiappetta: Silly Daddy (1987)

• John Porcelino: King-Cat Comics (1989)

• Dennis Eichhorn: Real Stuff (1990)

• Colin Upton: Colin Upton‘s Big Thing (1990)

• Julie Doucet: Dirty Plotte (1990); Long Time Relationship (2001); 365 Days (2008)

• Edmond Baudoin: Passe le temps [Pass the Time (1981), Éloge de la poussière [In Praise of Dust] (1995), Terrains vagues (1996)

• Jean-Christophe Menu: Livret de phamille (1995)

• Spain Rodriguez: My True Story (1994)

• Jim Valentino: Vignettes: Auto Biographical Comix of Valentino (1997)

• Mary Fleener: Life of the Party (1997)

• James Kochalka: American Elf: The Collected Sketchbook Diaries (1998)

• Carol Tyler: The Job Thing (1993), Late Bloomer (2005), Fab4 Mania (2018)

• Lewis Trondheim: Approximative continuum comics (1999), Little Nothings (2008)

• Michel Rabagliati: Paul (2000), series of nine books

• Åsa Grennvall; many books; Sweden

• Glenn Dakin: Abe: Wrong for All the Right Reasons (2002)

• Danny Gregory: Everyday Matters: A New York Diary (2003)

• Ellen Forney: I Love Led Zeppelin (2006)

• Gabrielle Bell: Lucky (2006); The Voyeurs (2011)

• Ben Snakepit: My Life in a Jugular Vein (2007)

• Jeffrey Brown: Little Things: A Memoir in Slices (2008); Undeleted Scenes (2010)

• Julia Wertz: The Fart Party 1 & 2 (2006); Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (2017); Drinking at the Movies (2010); The Infinite Wait and Other Stories (2012)

• Ryan Claytor: The Collected: And Then One Day (2007)

• Gipi: Notes for a War Story (2005); S. (2006); My Badly Drawn Life (2008)

• Cyril Pedrosa: Auto Bio (2008)

• Ken Dahl: Welcome to the Dahl House: Alienation, Incarceration, and Inebriation in the New American Rome (2008)

• David Heatley: My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (2008)

• Ananth Panagariya; Yuko Ota: Johnny Wander (2010); three books

• Pascal Girard: Reunion (2011)

• Lucy Knisley: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen (2013)

• Jason Martin: Driftwood City (2013)

• Meags Fitzgerald: Photobooth: A Biography (2014); Long Red Hair (2015)

• Leslie Stein: Bright-eyed at Midnight (2015)

• Dustin Harbin: Diary Comics (2015)

• Amy Kurzweil: Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir (2016)

• Gabby Schulz (aka Ken Dahl): A Process of Drastically Reducing One‘s Expectations (2018); Tell it to the Hole (2018)

• John Leguizamo, Christa Cassano, Shamus Beyale: Ghetto Klown (2020)

• Ulrika Linder: Återvinningscentralen (2020)

• Alison Bechdel: The Secret to Superhuman Strength (2021)

• Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell: Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession (2021)

• Shira Spector: Red Rock Baby Candy (2021)

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMICS THROUGHOUT HISTORY: THE 2022 LIST / 30

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