Three years in the life of its hero and author, Ben. Ben Snakepit has been chronicling his life in three-panel comic strips for the past three and a half years. The material is funny at first, but becomes transcendently more than funny, showcasing repetitive patterns of behavior, common mistakes, the redeeming beauty of small moments and all the life that’s in between.

The Snake Pit Book

Comics & Graphic Novels

Cometbus, Aaron

Snakepit, Ben

How To Create Comics & Manga

Gorsky Press

Follow Ben through his daily comic adventures involving beer, weed, work, shows, tour, love, and parties filled with monsters. His drawing and writing style is sincere and heartfelt and you can feel his highs and lows. Each day is captured in 3 frames, along with what he was listening to while drawing the frame. Despite his skull t-shirts and rough exterior you can tell he's a big softy and not just cruising for the next kiss or party. The more you read the more it sucks you in. Overall, it's a captivating look at each of our own lives and perspectives.

My Life in a Jugular Vein: Three More Years of Snakepit Comics (Comix)

Humor & Entertainment

Microcosm Publishing

People keep daily diary comics for different reason. For the progenitor of the format, Ben Snakepit, it has become sheer habit, drawing his life into three panels every day since Dec 23, 2000. That and documenting the events of his life into a macro-digestible format where years of his life can be consumed, processed, and analyzed in one sitting. In the intro, he spells it out like this, "Skip ahead 10 years, and everyone and their mother has a MySpace and a Facebook and a Twitter and a Blogspot," writes Snakepit, "and the idea of recording and sharing what I did every day in three panels doesn't seem like such a good idea anymore." Ben has always been self-effacing and modest. He describes his work as "shitty drawings to read on the toilet" and genuinely seems surprised when people like it. Despite this being his fifth book with a "real" publisher over a period of ten years. He's an accomplished musician, having spent time with Party Garbage, J Church, and even The Sword, but his life has slowed down in recent years, as he approaches 40. But the individual events have never been the point of Snakepit. The point is real life and your ability to digest it in massive doses, often reflecting these events onto your own life.

Snake Pit: 2009 (Punx)

Birdcage Bottom

Manor Threat, Ben Snakepit's latest collection of daily diary comics, takes place in the town of Manor, a suburb of Austin, Texas. Ben buys a house with his wife and adjusts to slow-paced country living. He also turns 40 and gets a new job, and then gets another job. Along the way, every day without fail, he draws a three-panel comic describing each day's events. Against that steady march of time, patterns emerge and shift and the result is a meditative, addictive read that captures the humanity of everyday life.

Manor Threat: Snake Pit Comics 2013-2015 (Punx)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Ben Snakepit returns with an all-new book of daily diary comics, continuing to draw years of his life, day-by-day in three panel comic format. Not knowing what the future will hold and no matter how mundane each appears at the time, an apparent narrative always begins to emerge in Ben's life as characters re-appear and interact with him at "Some Shitty Job," at the local tacqueria, or at home. As the title implies, Ben transitions from the pants-pooping idiocy of youth to the dark, sobering responsibilites of adulthood. Read along in amazement as he quits his bands, gets a real job, has a kidney stone removed and much much more. A truly existential text that can be 18+ fun for the whole family!

Snake Pit Gets Old: Daily Diary Comics 2010-2012 (Punx)

Ben “Snakepit” White draws his life every day in three comic panels. This book collects the years 2001–2003 and follows his participation in the heavy metal band, the Sword, up to the invitation to join the punk rock band J Church. His punk-influenced comic memoirs focus on every day, no matter how uneventful, in order to find the deeper meaning in the seemingly mundane. It is one of the few unintentional and revealing cultural studies of punk rock lifestyles. As Jimmi Payne summarizes in Punk Zine, “Patterns emerge and story arcs materialize and years of common actions load into a highly concentrated snapshot that wakes you up to the ongoing machinations of life beyond your present day.”

The Snake Pit Book: Daily Diary Comics 2001 2003

Follow Ben's life through a transitional period, starting the year off with punks and puke and then mellowing out into watching TV and going to bed early. The way he lives his life may have changed, but the way he draws it is still the same honest, real, sloppy Snakepit that we all know and love.

Snakepit 2008 (Comix)

Ben illustrates his daily life in 3-panel comic adventures involving beer, weed, work, shows, tour, and love. He journals his exploits from each and every day, whether he goes innertubing, attends raucous parties filled with monsters, or hangs out with his girlfriend. And for each entry he lists the song that he drew the day's strip to. His drawing and writing style is sincere and heartfelt, in a way that makes you concerned for Ben's happiness, whether you've met him or not. The quarterly and bi-monthly formats are no more, and now each year will be collected in a single slim paperback, just like in the beginning.

Snake Pit 2007 (Comix)

Ben Snakepit has drawn a three-panel comic strip about his day, every single day, since 2001. This new book compiles the three years of comics from 2016-2018, seeing Ben through the loss of his beloved Peeber and getting to know Frankie, in the low-fi style that he’s known for.

Dog Days of Snake Pit: Daily Diary Comics 2016-2018

Silver Sprocket

All of Ben Snakepit’s comics for Razorcake magazine, collected into one definitive volume! Spanning from 2003 until 2020, Snakepit covers the essentials of DIY punk life, from show reviews and scene reports, to the basics of touring on the cheap and making friends on the road, to falling in love and eating pizza he found face-down on the street. Offered with retrospective footnotes from the artist, this collection shows the growth and change of one punk’s perspective.

One Hundred Columns for Razorcake by Ben Snakepit: The Complete Comics 2003-2020

Graphic Novels

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