Return to the Snake Pit: Daily Diary Comics 2022-2024, San Francisco-Richmond
By (Author) Ben Snakepit
Microcosm Publishing
Microcosm Publishing
2nd January 2026
3rd June 2025
United States
General
Fiction
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction
Paperback
228
Width 152mm, Height 203mm
In his classic no-frills style, Ben Snakepit documents the daily events of the years 2022 to 2024. Each day since 2001, he's drawn a three-panel comic about his day, creating a rhythm with subtle humour 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.
Ben Snakepit has drawn a three-panel comic strip about his day, every single day since 2001. His comics have been collected in nine books over the past two decades. His books have received glowing reviews in publications like Vice, Maximum Rocknroll, Wizard magazine, USA Today, and GQ. He currently lives in Richmond, VA.