I do agree that a lot of comic artists often suffer from being too much the artist and not enough the writer. Some of this might be assuaged by more reading outside comics.

If one reads enough literature from the past century it can be shocking to realize how conservative (and I don’t mean politically) most comics are.

Thanks for the comment!

Most autobiography is fiction anyway, just as much fiction contains autobiographical elements; and then there is a sort of unavoidable self-spin that centres the individual in their own narritive of the imagination. Even ‘historical facts’ are subject to a mixture of willing self-delusion that recreates the events not as they happened but in light of propoganda - something the Scottish historian Angus Calder dealt with in his book The Myth of the Blitz. Not being aware of this can lead to a text peppered with capital I’s, which symbolises the male-organ to many feminist-critics.

I honestly think it’s just down to the fact that some cartoonists have limited writing ability, and perhaps even very little interest in literature, unlike some authors who even write their autobiography with a Book of Symbols and a copy of Catcher in the Rye nearby.