I saw My Alcoholic Escape from Reality on a list of the best graphic novels of 2021, and the novelty of it caught my attention. An autobiographical manga artist is hospitalized for pancreatitis thanks to her alcoholism, then decides to make an autobiographical manga about this experience as well. I admittedly wasn’t familiar with her other work, but I do have a fondness for seeing writers examine and expel their own demons through the process of writing about them. Sometimes it can feel disingenuous, like […]