Summary Of Emily Steinberg's Webcomic Graphic Therapy

In reading Emily Steinberg’s webcomic Graphic Therapy: Notes from the Gap Years I am starting to notice a common thread in graphic novels, the father narrative. In Debbie Drechsler’s Daddy’s Girl, and Alison Bechdel’s, Fun House: A Family Tragicomic, the father was the main theme of their story. In Steinberg’s webcomics the father is not the main character, however, he does have a powerful impact on her psyche. By analyzing Steinberg’s and the other two comic artists, I found I have several things in common with them: first, we are all artists; second, we are all women; third, we had an emotional or estranged relationship with our father; and lastly, we used art as a form of therapy. Even though I did not experience everything these artists did I can relate to their father narrative. I question the relationship between father and daughter and how it influences your creativity.
What makes this panel significant is Steinberg conversation with her therapist Victor as he explained the correlation between staying with men she does not like and the absent father, “I suffer from abandonment disorder. Maybe that’s because my dad was getting his PhD in engineering, while working full-time, from the day I was born until I was around seven.” In reading these graphic novels and Steinberg’s webcomic, I remember my father’s physical abusive toward my mother and I. Painfully, I remember how drawing as a child was a relief and wondered if I had a different relationship with my father would I be an