So I've been reading Joe Sacco lately.
His arts's interesting, because he's so practiced and finessed at the environments and background details that tell the reader hey, he actually was there, but chooses to make all the people he draws grotesque and weirdly proportioned.. He's just really damn good at drawing ugly people. He's illustrated his travels across the middle East, Bosnia and other places with a host of characters that are just about on the good sidely of 'badly drawn'. Also, everything has big gross teeth.
He extends this to himself, as he is always depicted as a sort of eyeless, big-lipped goblin. This is a pretty smart way of avoiding the reputation for narcissism and self-obsession that hangs around other autobiographical cartoonists. Had a go myself, but I'm just too darn pretty.