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.''