The Poor Bastard

Joe Matt's The Poor Bastard is a single-issue comic from Drawn & Quarterly, first published in 1997 and still ongoing. Written and drawn entirely by Matt, it's a brutally honest and often uncomfortable autobiographical work that dives into the creator's own neuroses, compulsive behaviors, and messy personal life. As a landmark of the confessional indie-comics movement, it matters for its unflinching self-portrait of an artist who holds nothing back.