True Porn

In the early 2000s, the indie publisher Alternative Comics released True Porn, a short-lived two-issue series that featured a rotating lineup of celebrated alternative cartoonists—including Chester Brown, James Kochalka, and James Sturm—each contributing their own unfiltered, autobiographical takes on the theme of pornography. Rather than a single narrative, the anthology offered a raw, confessional snapshot of how these artists grappled with desire, shame, and the medium itself, making it a distinctive artifact of the era's willingness to blur the lines between personal comics and taboo subject matter.