When Diary Comics Become Graphic Memoir

Mining Our Lives for the Laugh

From “Passion Project”. A Background Noise Comic. Art by John Hazard

Last year I had a crisis of faith. I tried to shoehorn a few graphic memoir-like stories into our diary comic. But it turns out that trying to draw a comprehensive version of your life in real time is about as misguided as a trying to build a sandcastle at high tide.