To The Last Page

You don't need to think too hard to figure out that a semi-autobiography by an artist called My Badly Drawn Life has a fair degree of self-deprecation. And bad drawings. The intention, from the random manner that the stories in the book are related, is almost as if Gipi feels embarrassed to give the stories and his life the respectability of beautiful drawings. Although unconventional, he is certainly capable of that - and there are examples of that in the book, mostly in the colour sections - but when it comes to speaking about what a dork he was as a youth, he prefers to leave it sketchy and a bit of a mess. Which sums up those events perfectly. Published in English translation by Fantagraphics, its ideal home, the US publisher often publishing international foreign language translations of works equivalent of the Drawn & Quarterly sad sack loser indies of Joe Matt, Julie Doucet and Chester Brown. Written and drawn between 2006 and 2007, what is special about Gipi is (much l...