Greg Dean is a guy who actually strikes me a lot as the kind of guy Chris might have been had he been "less mainstreamed."

much :autism: (meme, at least) but has made it work, and even has an appropriately strange wife (and kids, maybe, I haven't followed in years.) I've picked some strips that I think subtly indicate what I mean but I stumbled across them somewhat arbitrarily and realized it was working... all that said, I might be injecting a broader reading into them, the art example (from someone who didn't grow up aspiring to be an artist, stands.) At its heart, his comic is still mostly four frames for him to insert dialogue about his autistic interests, but he has noticeably gotten much better, and clearly has increased the effort and investment in his work as time has gone on. I wouldn't want Sonichu to not be Chris' weird interpretations of his life and fantasies, just better.