Right away, the fact that this "autobiography" is written by other than the subject is a dead giveaway that this work is not going to be what it purports to be; the fact that its author is Michael Kupperman let's you know that not only is it not going to be what it purports to be, but that it is also going to be odd and strangely off-kilter in a way that you can't quite put your finger on (but maybe sometimes you sort of can – like the way thetime period outlined in the title occurs entirely after the subject of the autobiography has died), but that will somehow involve an unusual combination of prose and comics in putting together the pieces in which the core of the meaning resides.  Oh yeah – it's also going to be funny.