Diary Comix
There's a quiet movement out there of comics artists drawing their daily lives. Some draw daily, others weekly, others not on a particular schedule. The result is meditative, compelling, and has plenty of ups and downs without easy answers or pat narratives—like life itself. Here's a list of books and zines to whet your appetite for this small but mighty genre.
The Snake Pit Book: Daily Diary Comics 2001-2003
Ben Snakepit draws his life everyday in 3 comic panels. This was his first book, collecting quite a few various zines.…
$90 Superpack: Snake Pit 2001-2024
Three panels, every day since 2001. TWENTY FIVE years of Snake Pit! NINE books! Snake Pit is nothing if not consistent…
Invincible Summer: An Anthology
Comics memoirist Nicole J. Georges captures her adventures and thoughts in unique, heartfelt illustrations & stories.…
Invincible Summer: An Anthology II
After years of over-caffeinated and restless free time, acclaimed artist and writer Nicole J Georges has amassed…
Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition
Throughout most of the year 2016, Julia Kaye created a comic strip a day surrounding the topic of her identity as a…
Forever and Everything #2
Kyle Bravo is back in this second issue of Forever and Everything. You'll be chuckling along as Kyle battles with…
Forever and Everything #3
Kyle Bravo's diary comics describe the ups and downs and joys of everyday life. In this issue, it's 2017, his kid is 2…
Forever and Everything #4
Kyle's story of fatherhood continues with the fourth volume of diary comics zine Forever and Everything. He recounts…
Forever and Everything #5: The "Feeling Bad Then Feeling Better" Issue
Kyle's ongoing diary comics series shows him navigating life at 40, which is filled with many downs, but a few good…
BFF: Brainfag Forever
BFF: Brainfag Forever! collects nearly a decade of Nate Beaty's self-published comics. Brainfag is a medical term for…
Don't Cry Wolfman Chicago
Diary comix ftw! Nate Beaty (Brainfag Forever) shares 120 pages of comics pages outlining scenes from his daily life…
Diary of a Miscreant
Fans of the zine Morgenmuffel will celebrate this anthology of some of Isy Morgenmuffel's best comics! Covering a decade…
Year of Zines: In which Sarah Mirk (That's Me!) Somewhat Obsessively Tries to Make a Zine Every Day For a Year
After spending a year making one zine every day, Sarah Mirk collected her favorite 100 of them into this bright yellow…
Dumb: Living Without a Voice
Georgia was a chatty, singing-in-the-shower twentysomething working at a bike shop in Montreal, before losing her voice…
I Thought YOU Hated ME
A comic about the twists and turns of a complex, lifelong friendship between two women, from childhood to adulthood,…
Monsters by Ken Dahl
Monsters is the latest graphic novel by Ken Dahl, author of the Microcosm published title Welcome to the Dahlhouse.…
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures
While set in the libertine atmosphere of 1970s San Francisco, Minnie's journey to understand herself and her world is…
The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life
This comprehensive guide to writing a graphic memoir is both helpful and moving, and will tell you everything you need…