I've read it and can confirm, it's amazing.

That's great, gonna look it up. I check the old HAV website sometimes and I thought she had moved on from writing comics. Thank you!

I still haven't.

You should have probably realized by now that "no-one" in most contexts doesn't literally mean "no one, ever, in the history of reality", it usually just means "a statistically insignificant number".

what is reddit's weird obsession with headlines and clickbait all about? it's on like 90% of all posts. i seriously don't understand. headlines are shorthand for the detailed info within. this isn't some complicated concept. i honestly just think the intended relay of general information in less than 15-20 words is an impossible feat to placate the demands of redditors. which, from a reddit POV, is an abject failure in understanding what headlines actually are. i don't see this self-imposed annoyance on other sites, tbh

Winners become royalty, or Nobelity.

I'm way below average and I hadn't heard of it, either.

Oscars get a bad rap. I disagree with them often but at least it’s not a pure popularity contest like the Grammys.

Yes, I suppose that in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by nepotism, being the most liked by your peers is the highest accomplishment.

I think I thought that genre was in fact over-done, that there wasn't room for any more of it, that if I was going to create something like that I should have tried doing it ages ago and now I'm unrelatably old. After reading *Fun Home* and *Maus* and some works by Adrian Tomine — again, ages ago — I had those yearnings but didn't think I was anywhere near good enough. I'm probably not. Then tons of time passed!

Can you suggest other titles of autobiographical memoir genre? I am surprised that you find it over-saturated, and interesting to overlook the manga and DC marvel categories that are dominating sales - and wonder if that speaks to the specific (non-YA?) market you belong to. It is actually quite encouraging you said that

> Okay well I don’t know where you got that idea

I think it may have come from the psychological suffering and anxiety.

I've gotta get back in there and take another look around. It's been awhile.

> Rare as story talent is, we often meet people who seem to have it by
nature, those street-corner raconteurs for whom storytelling is as
easy as a smile. When, for example, coworkers gather around the
coffee machine, the storytelling begins. It’s the currency of human
contact. And whenever a half-dozen souls gather for this mid-
morning ritual, there will always be at least one who has the gift.

>Let’s say that this morning our storyteller tells her friends the
story of “How I Put My Kids on the School Bus.” Like Coleridge’s
Ancient Mariner, she hooks everyone's attention. She draws them
into her spell, holding them slack-jawed over their coffee cups. She
spins her tale, building them up, easing them down, making them
laugh, maybe cry, holding all in high suspense until she pays it off
with a dynamite last scene: “And that’s how I got the little
nosepickers on the bus this morning.” Her coworkers lean back
satisfied, muttering, “God, yes, Helen, my kids are just like that.”

> Now let’s say the storytelling passes to the guy next to her who
tells the others the heartrending tale of how his mother died over
the weekend . . . and bores the hell out of everyone. His story is all
on the surface, repetitious rambling from trivial detail to cliche:
“She looked so good in her coffin.” Halfway through his rendition,
the rest head back to the coffee pot for another cup, turning a deaf
ear to his tale of grief.

> Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus
profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the
trivial told brilliantly. Master storytellers know how to squeeze life
out of the least of things, while poor storytellers reduce the profound
to the banal. You may have the insight of a Buddha, but if
you cannot tell story, your ideas turn dry as chalk.

- Robert Mckee, *Story*

>Can I, an emigrant, make my battle with depression of over 25 years into a graphic novel and win an eisner?

Nothing is stopping you.

I'm guessing the execution of it is very good and they're not judging it solely on premise.

Maybe it's not only about what race the author is?

Maybe people like her work for itself and not just according to a formula of boxes to tick?

>Is it that she’s not a white man?

Yes. Yes, that’s exactly it.

Depression is an illness, the same as any other. Would you criticise a 20-something "white person" for having a broken leg, or cancer? No, I doubt you would.

Mental illness deserves to have the word 'mental' removed. It's an illness, and it's something that can affect anyone from any background. I don't mean to speak harshly, but if you don't understand that then you have no business talking of it. None of us know what each other are going through, and it isn't about skin colour or money. The richest, whitest person in the world might still die by their own hand.

There's an argument to be made about Full Metal Alchemist as well, and probably a couple of others that I can't recall off the top of my head

My favorite anime, glad the artist gets respect.