It truly makes my heart bleed that the comics scene in this country I'm forced to live in has been so spellbound by autobiographical comics for so very long. Hardly anything that isn't badly drawn and concerning the cartoonist's pathetic and uninteresting life (see particularly some works by Mats Jonsson) is ever published around here.
This has been disturbing me deeply ever since I reimmigrated back in '98.

But maybe someone with an interesting life could do well with the autobiographical genre. And my life isn't maybe always interesting, but it's bizarre enough most of the time. So, I conjectured I could draw down a nice little episode, and see how it would come out ...

Of course, this isn't all drop dead authentic ... he didn't have peyot, for example. And he wasn't that fat ...