HIGH MAINTENANCE MACHINE

When will autobiographers stop ruining comics for all time? Nobody likes them, and the cartoonists who do them can't tell a story to save their lives! These books are clogging the arteries of the medium and destroying any hope it has of finally getting super hero fans the respect they deserve! Their real lives make Superman cry!

Or something... The debate continues to rage across the blogosphere. The mass debaters almost all hail from the land of the ill-informed. And they've got big axes to grind with the unknown, shaking their fists in an unlit corridor.

Anyone who hates autobio comics should try reading one so they can speak from just a little bit of experience. Might I suggest Matthew Reidsma's High Maintenance Machine? It's a great daily diary comic full of humor and melancholy, drawn with an expressive and assured line. Reidsma also ably captures anecdotal scenes in a limited space and probably could've written this piece with considerably more concision than me.

High Maintenance Machine is copyleft Matthew Reidsma.