autobio has become a stone in my shoe, a comic review
This is the second review I've done of comics I bought in the shortbox comics fair - see my shortbox tag for the previous one.
By the way, if anyone has any recommendations for a good app for reading pdfs on android, please let me know! I've not found anything I'm satisfied with yet.
An exploration of attention: how we spend it, and what it means. A look at love and happiness: what to make work about when autobiography feels useless.
I bought this one because of the title - as someone who blogs and diaries a lot, it interested me - and the cover, which grabbed my eye.
This comic is a series of musings on autobiographic "content", creating art on the internet, the attention economy. It meanders through topics, but I found it very thoughtfully put together.
It's a digital multi-media collage of sorts, including tweets and excerpts from articles and essays. Although these are themes I spend a lot of time thinking about (and you might too, if you blog or struggle with the state of the internet today), I still found something new to think about - like the quote in the screenshot below.
Another one I'd recommend. I also enjoyed the sketchy art style and use of colour.
You can buy autobiography is a stone in my shoe here, on the shortbox comics site.