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)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Snakepit, Ben

How To Create Comics & Manga

Birdcage Bottom

A graphic memoir about being a dad, building a ramp, and recalibrating your inner gyroscope by blunt force.

Sk8 Dad Summer: Ramps, Rebellion, and Raising a Kid

Hamil, Brett

Graphic Novels

Everything Is Super: The Great Unwashed

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Dramedy has never looked so? squiggly. The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening Act is the debut graphic novel by Desmond Reed, and features seven stories starring the five members of the eponymous psychedelic rock band, The Cola Pop Creemees. Laugh and cry as you witness Ralph Jonathan, Mona Gertrude, Gil Christopher, Henrietta Susan, and Wallace T.J. tackle depression, anxiety, trauma, family, heartbreak, jobs, parents, memories, addiction, drugs, alcohol, stress, comics, obsession, loss, creativity, music, school, unrequited love, mental health, existential sadness, and more!

The Cola Pop Creemees: Opening ACT

Reed, Desmond

Starting as a hardscrabble misfit and minister's son in the Bible Belt, followed by a stint as a suburban So-Cal Black punk, and onward to bicycle-obsessed, graphic novelist and dad in Oakland, Steady Rollin' is a portrait of the author in time-lapse. His memoir is composed of vignettes, uncovering his origins as an artist, exploring relationships past and present, ruminating on trauma and loss, and ultimately finding his place in the flow of life. Noland employs styles that capture the essence of the moment and dialogue that reflects the multi-layered complexities and challenges of communication. Steady Rollin' is an autobiographical anthology stitched together by years of work across styles that range from the sharp and detailed renderings for his New Yorker pieces to dreamier representations from his childhood. His reflections are at turns absurd, bitingly funny, and poignant. With its investigation the into the cycle of life from the Before Times to The New Normal, Steady Rollin' documents a world and a life in transition

Steady Rollin'

Noland, Fred

Abysmalation: Collected Short Works

Bayer, Josh

Misfortune is a dark look into the prisms that create the illusion we call modern life, guided by fortunes from fortune cookies.

Misfortune: A Book of Illustrated Fortune Cookie Messages

Hand, Aeon

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