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	Autobiographical Comics
		Comics are one of the most popular and interesting art movements of the 20th Century.
		Autobiographical comics are a great way to introduce the art curriculum to the larger community.
		Comics can be printed in school and local newspapers or used to create shows about contemporary student life in school or community gallery settings.
	www.uic.edu /classes/ad/ad382/sites/Projects/P009/P009_first.html (334 words)

	Goethe-Institut German-language comics - Autobiographical Comics - Flix
		The comic depicts an ‘almost’ normal childhood, from the fear of monsters under the bed, to scrapping in the school playground, the adventures of camping and the first kiss as a young teenager.
		In his next comic Sag Was (2004), the illustrator, cartoonist and comic artist succeeds in establishing his originality.
		And although the comic deals with everyday themes such as friendship, love and separation, Flix manages once again to move the reader to tears at the end with his vivid portrayal of his emotions.
	www.goethe.de /kue/lit/prj/com/cac/caf/enindex.htm (414 words)

	Autobiography, Masculinity and Comic Books
		One absorbing and unsettling medium ripe for study is that of auto/biographical comics and graphic novels.
		Autobiographical comics give insights into the cultural narratives and discourses which bound and limit the construction of the visible self.
		Autobiographical comics creators use a unique graphic medium (both visual and textual) to narrate and construct a life story.
	paul-server.hum.aau.dk /paul/research/past-autobiog.htm (747 words)

	Contemporary Dutch Comics
		Comic artists of the newer generation often have to fight to establish themselves, and only a few are able to make a living by just creating comics.
		A good example is the small wave of autobiographical comics by female comic artists, of whom Maaike Hartjes, Barbara Stok and Gerrie Hondius are the most well-known.
		Another new phenomenon in Dutch comics are the more "artful" comics, such as the experimental publications by Stefan van Dinther and Tobias Schalken, and the wordless, panels of 'Gutsman' by Erik Kriek.
	lambiek.net /dutchcomics/1990.htm (685 words)

	Jeet Heer, "Recent Autobiographical Comics"
		In some ways, this is a surprising development: historically comics have achieved their greatest popularity in the realm of fantasy, ranging from the pow-bang heroics of Superman to the more whimsical Disney universe of talking ducks and two-legged mice.
		The idea that comics could be a vehicle for introspective and naturalistic storytelling only really developed in the 1960s, a curious byproduct of the cultural ferment of the era.
		Perhaps influential comic in this vein was Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (1972), an intense and obsessive examination of childhood lived in the shadow of Catholic guilt.
	www.jeetheer.com /comics/autobiographical.htm (2407 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Comics are a form of visual art that consist of a series of static images in a fixed sequence, usually to tell a story.
		Comics are thought by some to be an art form, also known as sequential art, although whether they are an art form or are merely a medium in which sequential art is practised is still a matter of debate amongst creators, scholars and readers.
		Most comic shops now sell comics already in bags, and although the quality of the bag can vary; not all bags are of archival quality, meaning there is nothing in the composition of the bag which will harm the comic.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/comics (3744 words)

	Joe Sacco: Presentation from the 2002 UF Comics Conference
		And this comic is the story of a couple of years I spent in Berlin in the late ‘80s.
		People ask me a lot about the origins of comics journalism and why I depict myself in my journalism, but you’ll have to understand that I started out doing autobiographical strips so it was pretty natural for me to draw myself in my journalistic work.
		It was a short comic I did of a character profile of this guy in Sarajevo who sort of was a rock-n-roller and mad about town.
	www.english.ufl.edu /imagetext/archives/v1_1/sacco (7181 words)

	Killoffer Interview
		The autobiographical element has been very visible in comics publishing for several years … perhaps too much so: too many artists are telling us how they clean their teeth.
		As a child, I was a reader of comics and I drew superhero comics.
		The comic is in fl and white, and the only colour used is pink.
	www.typocrat.com /Misc/killofferinterview.htm (2112 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- 'Masters': Gleeful crash course in comics
		Too often, comics are dismissed as the illegitimate offspring of serious art and literature.
		Comics' narrative possibilities go through further metamorphosis with King's real-time chronicle of life in "Gasoline Alley" and Segar's introduction of his spinach-lovin' sailor Popeye in the "Thimble Theatre" stories.
		Autobiographical comics are also ripe for probing their creators' personal idiosyncrasies and no one does that better than Crumb.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20051204-9999-1a04comics.html (1259 words)

	Front Lines: Comics At War
		His use of fl and white artwork, a motif of low-budget, independent, autobiographical comics, seems to add some indefinable quality of authenticity to the work, akin to the use of fl and white photography.
		Something else that Sacco appears to have picked up from autobiographical comics is the attempt to document both the rhythms of daily life and its minutiae.
		The cartoonist is the first to admit that the different forms reflect both his goal to emulate the documentary comics style of Sacco and an urgent attempt to rush his account into print and out to the public before the news agenda once again switched away from the central Asian republic.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=1249 (1593 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Comics
		Tomine worked his way up from photocopied comics that he couldn't give away in his native Sacramento to a handsomely produced autobiographical comic book reviewed in Spin, whose critic made the easy but obvious comparison to Raymond Carver.
		Comics appeal to us not only with their caricatures, revenge themes and cruel humor but also with their renderings of moods and silences.
		It is a fine idea for a comic, since these songs, handed down through the centuries, are always as mysterious for what they leave in as what they leave out.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.11.96/comics-9615.html (678 words)

	Metroactive Arts \| Justin Green
		The criticism is true, to some extent, and nothing could be drearier than those comics featuring young guys talking about their hopeless crushes or young girls complaining about their weight for page after page.
		Even without explicit sex and drug use, his underground comic still became a bestseller in the market of the early 1970s, selling, it is claimed, 40,000 copies.
		His most famous comic has been unavailable for so long that I suspect he was reluctant to authorize a reprint.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.12.95/comics-9541.html (651 words)

	Jog - The Blog: Speaking about one's self. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		All of us can recall more than one instance of some blinkered reader huffing that non-corporate comics are all a bunch of deadening screeds scribbled out by lazy twenty-somethings bitching about how their life is unfulfilling (yet strangely whimsical).
		But by only characterizing the ‘autobiographical comic’ as a straightforward narrative offering a ground-level view of instances from a person’s life, there’s a certain denial of the potential that the autobiographical comic has.
		David B. is impressive in his command of the language of comics, and he wields a power of his own, the power to examine the known and the unknown aspects of his interior and exterior lives, and tell us something about our own dreams, our own security.
	joglikescomics.blogspot.com /2004/10/speaking-about-ones-self.html (1259 words)

	Colin Upton: SBC Q&A
		It was so different from the comics I knew at the time, the mindless superhero crap, the underground comics celebrating a lost hippy sub-culture I couldn't relate too and the slick European comics.
		Comics seem to thrive on an lowbrow, populous, outsider status.
		If comics are absorbed into the world of fine arts it may become as irrelevant, vacuous and driven by empty sensationalism as the rest of the art world.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/105649815718181.htm (1060 words)

	Untitled Document
		Comics colorist, editor, world traveler...with the recent release of SCORCHED BIRTH, we can now add "comics publisher" to the many hats worn by the multi-talented Marie Javins.
		The stories are all very disturbing and dysfunctional tales of childhood and in most cases, the storytellers managed to overcome their roots and turn into relatively normal, functioning members of society.
		The comic-book audience is shrinking and mainstream comics are getting more and more panicky, but the end result seems to be that creators throw up their hands and just do their own thing.
	www.popimage.com /dec99/industrial/mariejavins.html (1317 words)

	Autobiographical comics? - Tartsville
		I was talking with some fellow comic creators recently, and one said that he absolutely hates autobiographical comics (with a few exceptions).
		I'm also aware of autobiographical elements in my own work -- there's no way for a writer to avoid it, and a comic or novel that was completely lacking in autobiography would be a dry and barren thing.
		A creator may be very comfortable writing about me in his or her autobiographical comics, but that doesn't mean I would automatically be equally comfortable with being depicted.
	www.sequentialtart.com /community/Forum2/HTML/000683.shtml (6463 words)

	Art Spiegelman \| The A.V. Club
		Before his groundbreaking autobiographical graphic novel Maus won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, Art Spiegelman was an obscure underground comics artist and commercial illustrator who'd worked on everything from Topps Gum Company products like Garbage Pail Kids to comics for The Village Voice, Playboy, and The East Village Other.
		Comics just can't be made that way, or at least not anything worth looking at.
		Comics for kids were sort of vestigial at best, for the kids of the arrested-development adults who could go to the comic shop with them.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/23319 (3202 words)

	-=COMICSCODE=- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The earliest comics that I drew that I still have in my possession were drawn when I was 8 or 9 years old.
		Marvel and DC are probably dying, but not comics as a whole.
		Name three comics comic fans should have on their shelves...
	www.comicscode.net /interviews/kochalka/indexen.htm (1288 words)

	Eurl.com! Nothing. Absolutely nothing...
		Reading comics and enjoying comic book art is one of my favorite diversions.
		If you're new to comics, any one is a good place to begin: Peter Bagge, "Hate", Crumb, Sacco, "Bone," "Frank," Chris Ware, Simpson's Comics/Bongo Comics, Adrian Tomine, Joe Matt, Frank King's "Gasoline Alley," Fantagraphs Comics, The Comics Journal.
		Among the finest and most purely honest coming of age autobiographical comics ever written/drawn.
	www.eurl.com /comics.htm (335 words)

	Flight » Blog Archive » Cloud Factory and Imitation of Life
		Simply titled Imitation of Life, Neil’s earliest works were autobiographical comics, and the first of those early strips were drawn in, believe it or not, MS Paint.
		Neil’s comics have since come a long way from those humble beginnings, and this is truly reflected in his many stories.
		He presented an autobiographical account of his first several weeks adjusting to life in the Bay Area with a short story that eventually saw publication in New Reliable Press’s anthology, You Ain’t No Dancer #1 (which can be purchased here).
	www.flightcomics.com /?p=205 (585 words)

	The Comics Reporter
		In that work, Dupuy presented himself as a man beset by demons and overcome with personal problems: his marriage was on shaky ground, his niece passed away, as did his mother.
		I was reminded that it's a one block walk from Superheroes (Paris' best comic book store) to the Pompidou Centre, but in terms of public perception, the art forms represented by each remain separated by a far, far greater distance.
		Autobiographical, but in an unusual way -- telling us little about what the author generally does, and a lot about the way that he feels.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/briefings/eurocomics/2503 (935 words)

	Dean Haspiel's OPPOSABLE THUMBS: Interviews
		Dean Haspiel is certainly no stranger to autobiographical comics — after all, he illustrated the lead story in the latest Harvey Pekar American Splendor book from Dark Horse, and he's done a story or three about his own life for various books.
		Haspiel, who broke into comics in the mid-80s as Howard Chaykin's assistant and also worked with Bill Sienkiewicz and Walter Simonson before going solo in 1987, has done superheroes, adventure, and humor comics — but he still finds himself most excited by "slice-of-life" semi-autobiographical books.
		Autobiographical comix as a budding genre is still in its infant stages, so I feel that all examples sport golden nuggets to learn from and enjoy.
	www.indyworld.com /dino/interview.csn725.html (909 words)

	Webcomics Nation
		Webcomics Nation is a place for comics creators to show off and share their work.
		AP's comics are like rock ditties from 1977 with the foresight of a man who sees the future.
		A comic about a kid given the power and responsibility to defend the world, and how he handles it.
	www.webcomicsnation.com (604 words)

	Alternative Comics from Alternative Comics (ADD Review)
		My first thought upon receiving a "big, fat package of comics" from Alternative Comics this week (that's what publisher Jeff Mason called the package, and he was right -- only four titles, but man, good, substantive work), was pleasure at their varied shapes and sizes.
		This is not one-size-fits-all comics, where every book is the same size, shape and level of mediocrity.
		This really is an all-ages comic, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better comic to share with a child.
	www.simpleweblog.com /comics/addreviews/opinion_archive_082001.php (979 words)

	Dean Haspiel's OPPOSABLE THUMBS
		Opposable Thumbs is Dean Haspiel's stories of a born and bred New Yorker and the trials and tribulations of living in the big bad city which serves as the backdrop for the informed, existential expression in his sociological comics.
		Even the bleakest and grubbiest settings are lovingly, lusciously rendered by Haspiel's sharp brush in one of the most recognizable styles in alternative comics, and "quiet" domestic scenes veritably simmer with graphic impact.
		The first issue features a special introduction by autobiographical comics legend Harvey Pekar, illustrated by Josh Neufeld.
	www.indyworld.com /dino/ot1.html (382 words)

	Jog - The Blog: Eddie Campbell: The End
		The question naturally rises as to how one follows up such a work; Campbell is not one to simply toss out anecdotes and snatches from life, generally preferring to administer some overarching theme to his books, letting his short stories accumulate a collective drive between covers.
		And often times the contemporary comics drift off to profiles of forgotten artists throughout history, with Siegrist and various folks from Campbell’s real life portraying historical personalities.
		As buoyant and good-humored as it often is, this book can also seem like a decidedly rueful farewell to the comics world, and indeed the world of art creation in general - a grand concluding kiss-off, a climactic blast of residual (and formidable) creative verve, middle finger raised high to the sky.
	joglikescomics.blogspot.com /2006/04/eddie-campbell-end.html (1040 words)

	The Trouble With Boys: An interview with David Kelly
		Kelly's work includes two collections of STEVEN'S COMICS ('We Are Family' and 'New Best Friend'), a gently funny and bittersweet chronicle of a boy growing up in the late 1970s, which Kelly both writes and draws.
		Kelly's comics intake during his childhood was similar to that of many American kids in 1970s.
		After ten years of BOY TROUBLE, gay comics are still under-represented in the industry, and like most minority creators looking to contribute to the greater diversity in the industry, Kelly has had to turn himself into a one man production line.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=823 (1049 words)

	It's... The Copacetic Sale Page!
		Bernard Krigstein (1919-1990) is routinely listed among the great comic book pioneers of the 20th century, and yet, with the exception of his EC Comics period, most of his work has been unavailable since its original publication.
		The tangled relationships of twenty-somethings in Seattle is the crux of this 56-page squarebound comic, but it's all in the details and there's plenty of those here; and, from the woman's point of view, no less.
		In it, long suffering Canadian comics artist, David Collier shares his life in a trailblazing hybrid of words and images, primarily in the form of journal entries and sketches.
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/CopaceticCutRate.html (2859 words)

	The Comics Reporter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		One of the bigger pieces of news in European comics last year was the word that Lewis Trondheim was retiring from comics.
		The book is an autobiographical essay in comics form, revolving around the question of why it is that cartoonists are unable to age gracefully.
		As a book, on the other hand, it is fascinating, loose, and charmingly revealing in a way that very few autobiographical comics are.
	www.comicsreporter.com /index.php/briefings/eurocomics/1249 (748 words)

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