Joe Matt created autobiographical comics that turn his own pettiness, sexual habits, relationships and financial anxieties into deliberately uncomfortable comedy. Peepshow collects diary-like strips in which Matt portrays himself arguing with friends, avoiding responsibility and documenting behaviour he knows makes him look bad. The Poor Bastard follows the breakdown of a relationship and his obsessive self-justifications, while Spent focuses even more directly on pornography, isolation and the routines of a cartoonist reluctant to change. His drawing is clean and traditional in contrast with the messiness of the material, and the humour often depends on extreme self-exposure without asking readers to admire the narrator. His work fits alternative comics, confessional graphic memoir and adult autobiographical cartooning. Read more Less
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