The Alcoholic (2008)

Another dark confessional narrative from Vertigo comics. The Alcoholic is not more honest than The Quitter, but it is a stronger book overall. I think a sense of humor is the key element: when Jonathan Ames recounts how his crafted persona ended up with a horny old lady in a car, or passed out naked in a trash can, he is smartly realizing that it would be a mistake to play a story of addiction totally seriously. Dean Haspiel's art is certainly more effective overall, perhaps because Haspiel can serve up Ames' black humor as fast as Ames can dish it out.
As the title implies, addiction is a major theme throughout the book, but a surprise queer angle emerges as Ames remembers his best friend from high school, Sal. Since Sal and Ames spent all their high school weekends drunk together, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they also had a significant sexual experience together, one that would drive them apart forever. Ames shows with some skill how our sexual identities, our careers, and all the just plain bad stuff that we do is sort of connected in the end.