Passed Proposals

This is a list of past proposals that have either passed following discussion in gcd-policy or expired. You can also see the list of Current Proposals.

Adding 'autobiography' to the genre list

proposed on 3. March 2010
one reminder on 8. March 2010
passed on 17. March 2010

The reason for this is that autobiography (or autobiographical) is an easily defined and specific genre of creators producing comics about their own lives. The current alternative 'bio' is not as precise. I'd include Harvey Pekar and Dennis Eichhorn in the category, despite their not actually drawing the comics themselves. Pekar has shown himself producing layouts in his stories, if that helps convince people.

In a list of categories if one merges the likes of superhero and super- hero and discounts foreign language genre categories, 'autobiography' is already among the top 30 used genres, with over 1200 uses.

Ten minutes thought has produced the following comics that fall exclusively into the genre:

Peep Show, Collier's, Melody, American Splendor, Real Stuff, Real Smut, Real Schmuck, Real Life, Real Girl, Voyeuse, the Fantagraphics series about sexual experiences the title of which I can't bring to mind at the moment, Binky Brown, Streetwise, Last Days In Vietnam, The Dreamer, A Sailor's Story, Get A Life, Alec, Total Sell Out, Assume Nothing, Our Cancer Year, Confessions of a Cereal Eater, Yahoo, Life Is Cheap, Fortune And Glory, Fun Home, Nowhere, A Child's Life, The Bakers, Epileptic, Palestine, Fax From Sarajevo, Peter Kuper's ComicsTrips, A Few Perfect Hours, Tuesday, We Are On Our Own, Lewis Trondheim's diary book, Self-Loathing Comics, My Troubles With Women, Life Under Sanctions

These all have stories that fall into the genre

Weirdo, Jizz, Palookaville, 9-11, Dirty Plotte, Wimmin's Comix, Keyhole, Tomato, Maus (partially), Hup, Naughty Bits.

To save you counting, that's over 50 titles, and I reckon that's more than enough to warrant a genre classification.