Snake Pit 2007 by Ben Snakepit

Snake Pit 2007
By Ben Snakepit
Microcosm

Of all the many hats one must wear in order to execute an effective diary comic, perhaps none is more important than that of editor. Let’s be perfectly honest with ourselves here—most of us lead fairly dull, repetitive existences. The same thing applies to the vast majority of those who write autobiographical strips—if not more so. After all, most professional cartoonists spend a large percentage of their time slaving away under the lamps of their drawing boards or huddled around sketchpads, honing their craft. With rare exceptions—like, say, Joe Sacco—comic book artists lead a very un-Hemingway-like existences.

Boiled down to their true essence, how many of our days would read something along the lines of: “This morning I ran a few errands. Then I went to work. I came home and got stoned”? Ben Snakepit certainly has more than his share. The above, for the record, was transcribed verbatim from the Jan 29th entry of the artist’s latest book. A full collection of last year’s strips, there are plenty more strips along those lines, which, one imagines, were Snakepit to pull out during a book reading at the local Barnes & Noble, would be something akin to performing a dramatic reading of a grocery list.

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