Steve in comments a few days back:
"...that's one of my favourite panels in Alec. I groped towards why it was, back when I thought I could write stuff like this out loud ..."
Steve wrote a whole essay on that panel at the link. The same panel was used on the cover of a Spanish book published by the Semana Negra festival in 2008. They were doing special events on the subject of autobiographical comics. I wasn't able to be there because I was doing my Monsieur Leotard tour. The wife, who was never amused about me sitting up drawing all night, said at least they got the title right.



Here's a video from the event. I think the speakers are Phoebe Gloeckner, Spain Rodriguez, Angel de la Calle, Fabrice Neaud, and if i've got that wrong, somebody correct me. There are three different languages; Spanish shows are always a linguistic soup. (arf! I've just remembered the time I called down for soap in a Spanish hotel and they brought up soup- it's in the big Alec book)