Ben Snakepit – författare

Ben Snakepit's latest collection of daily diary comics takes place in the town of Manor, a suburb of Austin, Texas. Ben buys a house with his wife and adjusts to slow-paced country living. He also turns 40 and gets a new job, and then gets another job. Along the way, every day without fail, he draws a three-panel comic describing the day's events. Against that steady march of time, patterns emerge and shift and the result is a meditative, addictive read that captures the humanity of everyday life.

Eventually you have to accept that it's time to take responsibility. Snake Pit Gets Old sees our hero transitioning from the pants-pooping idiocy of youth to the responsibilities of adulthood. Join Ben as he quits his band, gets a real job, has a kidney stone removed and much more! We see him interacting with familiar characters in some shitty job' at the local tacqueria, or hanging out with a motley assortment of punks at home. In this graphic novel, Ben's three-panel strips are as entertaining as they are real.'

Everyday Ben White draws his life in three comic panels. There are punk shows, drinking binges, rotating girlfriends, some outstanding days and some where little happens. But each is chronicled by Ben into comic art. Jimmi Payne's Punk Zine summarises his work saying Taken individually, each strip resembles what a friend would say if you asked what they had done that day. Ben sifts through the minutiae of life as well as the full experience of time in a day... years of common actions load into a highly concentrated snapshot that wkaes you up.''

Each day since 2001, he's drawn a three-panel comic about his day, creating a rhythm with subtle humor and genuine feeling that draws you into events both startling and mundane. This collection starts off in San Francisco, but aging parents and a major family emergency cause Ben to move back in Richmond, VA. After 23 years away, Snakepit returns to the place where it all started. His band breaks up, he turns 50, and the world and his life change dramatically, but Ben keeps bringing us a comic-and a song-every day throughout it all. Grown-up punks, fans of outsider art and diary comics, and anyone with aging parents will get it-and once you get it, much like growing older, there's no going back.

After years living in Texas, Ben Snakepit and his wife are excited to move to San Francisco and start a whole new adventure together. However, as the reality of the pandemic bears down only a month after their arrival, this next chapter in their lives turns out to be different than expected. Told in lo-fi daily diary comics spanning 2019-2021, Snakepit chronicles the challenges of living in lockdown, learning a new city under strange circumstances, and making the best of it.