Comments on: There’s No Such Thing As Escapism Any More

By: mr k

mr k — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:15:31 +0000

“From the main page:

Asylum On 5th Street was officially cancelled without being completed on 1/26/2006 due to poor financial performance, lack of interest, and personal reasons of the artist. There are no current plans to continue work on the comic at a future date. Archives will no longer be available for the general public.”

And I’ve learnt a valuable lesson about, you know, checking things out before I write ‘em.

By: mr k

mr k — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:13:44 +0000

“From the main page:

And I’ve learnt a valuable lesson about, you know, checking things out before I read ‘em.

By: Tropylium

Tropylium — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:29:35 +0000

Yep… It is a feature and not a bug of autobiograf. comics that there will be plenty of stuff that has been done before; I know a few that only raport funny happenings, but they’re mostly on a more sporadic schedule. Real life isn’t exactly a comedy.

By: Jin Wicked

Jin Wicked — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:13:44 +0000

Well, I don’t read either of those comics (or more than a handful in general), but perhaps they come up often because they are fairly universal human experiences.

By: Jeff Lowrey

Jeff Lowrey — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:08:17 +0000

In no way do I intend to belittle your personal experience. This is one of the difficulties of discussiong biographical or “semi-biographical” comics – without in depth interviews with the creator you don’t know where the “real life” is and where the comic is.

But reading #164 as a comic, it is a bit too “Cathy” for my tastes, and #157, again only as a comic, is a bit too “Dilbert” – or maybe “Office Space”.

By: Jin Wicked

Jin Wicked — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:54:34 +0000

#157: That literally happened almost exactly as illustrated. Well, except me breaking in half. Is that the overused part?

Some of the comics are direct translations of real life events, some are things that I added a punchline to, some are things that were just inspired by similar events. In the books I go through strip by strip and explain every one of them. You are really only getting part of the story in each comic.

#164: Body image is something I have struggled with since being a child (I did NOT have a pleasant childhood), and I go through that scenario getting dressed almost every day of my life. I write about it in the second book. There is not a joke there.

Not all the comics are funny. They’re not supposed to be. I’m glad you enjoyed my strip though.

-Jin

By: Jeff Lowrey

Jeff Lowrey — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:45:37 +0000

From the main page:

Asylum On 5th Street was officially cancelled without being completed on 1/26/2006 due to poor financial performance, lack of interest, and personal reasons of the artist. There are no current plans to continue work on the comic at a future date. Archives will no longer be available for the general public.

By: mr k

mr k — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:05:20 +0000

I do rather like Crap I drew, I also think her spin off comic, Asylum on 5th street, is worth a look, although I do not know when it is to be updated again.