Nobody Gets Me 4
by JY
on September 8, 2021
at 11:14 pm
I hope you enjoyed this. The subject matter is a bit of a departure from Clarissa’s usual travails, but I have wanted to occasionally show the broader hell-world that is Clarissa’s daily life.
If you liked this, please share it everywhere you want and let other current (or potential) Clarissa fans know that a new story has been released into the world. The more Clarissa fans I get, the closer we all come to the Clarissa graphic novel!
(And drop a comment too!)
Um, is that it? I was sort of expecting more of the new Clarissa comic story than that.
thrilled to see a new chapter, i had no idea this was still ungoing!
Great work, hope you get to release a graphic novel
I thought it was well wrapped up in the short time it had…
Interesting. Clarissa is starting to move away from being the victim. In previous stories she was always victimized, or accepted victimhood to protect others (Clarissa Saves Hallowe’en), but here she is starting to fantasize about getting her revenge on society for what it has done to her. The strongest monsters in society are the ones that society has created. Will Clarissa eventually find a healthy outlet for all the suffering she has experienced or will she finally snap, have her revenge and then spend the rest of her life being punished for striking out against her own personal demons.
Amazing as always, can’t wait for the Clarissa graphic novel!
I’ve started reading this comic after finding it posted on /pol/ a lot. Wow this is really something I’d expect form a manga not an American comic. Props for writing about such serious topics.
JY: Grazi! Please spread the word!
“Clarissa Graphic Novel”
I had no idea that would even be thought of. I don’t know of I could handle the despair but I want it anyway.
This was funny though, it’s nice to see some of Clarissa without the gut punch.
A good departure… I’d like to see her run… be forced to run for student council.
I’m so happy to see my favorite grumpy little girl again. I love how every time you expand her world little by little. Her intense expression in the previous page’s last panel made my chest feel tight with emotion, it was so expressive and unusual. It kinda felt like she got to ‘breathe’ for a moment in this particular story, roleplaying like that, even if she hated the idea of the drill.
I don’t live in the US, so at first I didn’t realize they were doing a simulation and thought the teacher was nuts and reacting to a real school shooting all South-Park style. But of course, the idea of a ‘school shooting drill’ is nuts by itself. “Thoughts and prayers!”
I’d like to see Clarissa go to the zoo, or maybe the planetarium for a moment of poetic melancholy and imagination. Something Iike that. I loved how surreal some of your older Clarissa comics got.
Well, that’s enough fangirling for now. (In my defense, I’ve never sent you my impressions before.) Love from Argentina!
JY: Thanks for the praise! And watch out for those capybara’s! (Wait– is that like if you told *me* to watch out for bison?)
I hope you make a ton more of these and end up giving her a good ending to her life in which something happens like she meets someone that she could tell about what has happened to her and then that person going to the police and locking up her dad and then the person that helped her adopts clarissa and then she gets to experience a loving family for the first time and receiving some sort of therapy or something to boost her mental health but idk that’s just what I would love to see. Keep up the comics your work is awesome!
This is a repost of what i put on the first page of this comic because I feel this has more comments and will be seen by JY
JY: You are seen!
I’m not an abusive monster father. This all still makes me rethink myself. Do I ever have one kid try to take responsibility for another? Do I inadvertently play them against one another? Do I use guilt to get what I want rather than correction to try and help them grow? Idk if I can handle much more of this, but it’s amazing.
Man I can’t wait for more, idk why I like reading a comic that makes me want to punch a few of the characters in it, as well as just making me upset in many different and slightly nauseating ways…morbid curiosity or something?…
I’ll keep an eye out for more, and let everyone else know about it!
Poor Clarissa, I Wana give her a hug but I feel like she might not like that…
I think more comics like this are great. Not that you’d need my suggestions, but ideally I’d like to see this out of the “clarissa” narrative.
1.) How she deals with the things she has to do. The bath time story is a good example of this, as we’re essentially seeing her trauma first hand; its as impactful as it is sad. Same thing with the girl and the cast.
2.) How she deals with things people make her do. Both this story and the Halloween ones are great examples.
Regardless, this story is pretty great. I’m not one to get attached to fictional characters, but you’d have to be made of stone to not feel the incredible weight of this story on you. I also appreciate how its darkly comical, but also knows when to just be dramatic and sad. Great job!
JY: Thanks! Fans like you are why I keep making Clarissa… which, cruelly, is why she continues to suffer. 🙁
i had been wanting to check on these comics for a while and got quite the attachment to clarissa now, i hope you keep making more stories of her and that good things happen to her at some point. i like how the last ones have been showing more of clarissa as a person and not focusing only on her abuse, this is a well told story in my opinion, so good luck with the rest!
JY: I’m glad you like this direction. This was actually a slight detour on the way to what I hope will be the next big Clarissa arc. Stay tuned!
There was a question on Quora asking what the darkest comic was you had read. I gave an answer describing Clarissa. Hopefully, this will attract some more Clarissa fans and get us closer to that graphic novel.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-darkest-comics-you%E2%80%99ve-ever-read/answer/Derek-McNeil-3
JY: It BETTER.
I feel like I need resolution in this story, but I have no idea what form that would take. Clarissa just needs to find a way to cope. A way to smile.
Anyway, if you want to make it darker, you should consider a story where the mom gets pregnant and Clarissa freaks out at the thought of a baby sister and the implications thereof.
This is SO spot on. I was also sexually abused starting when I was a toddler, and it ended around kindergarten, the same age Clarissa is here, because I spoke up and told my teachers what was going on. The roles were kind of reversed though because my mother and her friends were the abusers, and my father was the enabler who pretended everything was okay. I can see Clarissa developing her communication skills in the “Halloween” comic and moving on from quiet cries for help like the “Mimi” drawing to actually speaking up. After fighting to get myself out of that situation, I also had a phase of bullying other students and re-enacting abusive behavior. I think Clarissa is dealing with that same balance between being assertive and aggressive and whether she will break the cycle or not.
JY: Thanks for the story.
Clarissa Columbine ending confirmed???
Also, is there more Clarissa comics in PEEK? I think it was mentioned in previous strips, but now that these are here is there anything that I am missing? No offence, but I am here for Clarissa, I would be willing to buy PEEK if there was Clarissa content that is not on the site but to be honest I would rather not buy a book that only has content I have already seen online.
JY: Sign up to the Clarissa mailing list (clarissa@whatisdeepfried.com) for updates on new Clarissa material. More is coming!
Not sure if you had ever read Stray Bullets, but the development of Clarissa’s story reminds me of Virginia Applejack’s. Hope this isn’t a slight, because obviously different themes are being displayed between your work and David Lapham’s, it’s just to say that you keep good company.
JY: High praise!
Greetings from the chan of four, Im so happy Clarissa is still getting stories, it feels so long ago that I came across her for the first time on the imageboard and when then I found this site and saw it discontinued I just assumed the artist had just moved on to other things and that Clarissa had just been a small not significant side thing for him, or that maybe the attention gathered from the ass of the internet had deterred him from making more even.
Then today many years later I decide to randomly duckduckgo her name and find myself here again, and what I find is quite some unseen content by me and an artist more than willing to make even more and interacting with fans, you have made my year good sir and Id love to pay you good money if you put all these and more together in a graphic novel. Godspeed.
The Clarissa tale is dark and sad and depressing, but accurately embodies reality for countless children who have no voice. I would very much like to see Clarissa’s story continued with Daddy being hauled away in chains for being the hateful pedophile that he is, and she herself being rescued from her hell on earth and being given a shot at a decent life. Hey, I can dream.
I’m going to have to be a bit repetitive, but like many other commenters, I just found out today that Clarissa has gotten more chapters – I think the latest I had read was “Take Me to Work Day”. And being the bad supporter that I am, I read all these comics on other platforms than your site.
But, now I’m here, and what I really want to say is that Clarissa has to be one of the more exceptional comics out there. I’m not an avid comic reader – I rarely do, and the comics and graphic novels I’ve read can probably be counted with two hands; maybe three if we’re being generous and slightly mutated (knew I shouldn’t have tasted cockroach – but it did taste like peanut). But there’s something about Clarissa that just keeps living rent-free in the back of my head, every now and then popping out of there, bringing back these stories, moments and emotions. There’s a very evocative reality behind all the zaniness.
I wish all the best to you and Clarissa, and I really hope you get to make a Clarissa graphic novel – consider me a sure buyer. I hope it’ll ship to Finland!
JY: Thanks for the encouraging words. I will happily ship to our new NATO ally! (Just remember: We supply the cash, YOU supply the blood.)
Apart from the… questionable background character in the family portrait strip, I’ve found this comic to be near-flawless. I recognised myself in the younger brother; mediating, not realising what was going on until it was too late and then being desperate to stand up for my younger sibling – but being too scared to. Luckily it’s not physical or sexual, but the guilt-trip in the take your kid to work day mirrors many conversations that I’ve had with my parental unit. I hate how I missed the signs in my brother until I began individuating and got a taste of it myself. I was always the ‘golden kid’ of the pair, ended up getting kinda angry at my bro (not that I showed it), then realised my mistake later on. Sorry for the traumadump, but I just wanted to say that parts of this comic, although the abuse was different, made me feel seen.
JY: Giving and receiving trauma is what this strip is all about!
Greetings from Brazil!
Wow, just read this last comic for the first time. It’s been a while since I’ve been to your website, but every now and then I remember this amazing comic and come back for a revival. I was happy to see a new chapter.
“Clarissa” is amazing and always get me thinking deeply. I hope you continue to work on this project in this new year!