autographics means the creation of autobiographical works using a variety of technologies and materials, such as signs, symbols, and visual arts, as well as words. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
Why “autographics” is a great word
AUTOGRAPHICS — [Noun] The creation of autobiographical works using a combination of words, images, and graphic design elements. Coined by Gillian Whitlock from the Greek prefix auto- ("self") and the English word graphics ("the products of graphic arts"). Unlike "autobiography" (which chronicles a life in prose) or "memoir" (which isolates a period or theme in written recollection), autographics is a multimodal architecture of the self. It is the deliberate bleed of ink into a family photograph, the gutters of a comic panel holding unsaid history, and the careful collage of a faded snapshot and a stark medical chart—a testament that we are composed not only of events, but of the very textures through which we choose to remember them.
Etymology
Coined by Gillian Whitlock from auto- + graphics
noun
- The creation of autobiographical works using a variety of technologies and materials, such as signs, symbols, and visual arts, as well as words.“This special issue of Biography devoted to exploring the potential of autographics as a concept and a practice is thick with illustrations, for graphic life narrative resists reduction to summary or translation into a single medium, and requires that we pause and explore the sight, the sounds, the sensational feel of autobiographical representations.”