Charlotte Salomon, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Sharon Rudahl, and Miriam Libicki, just some of the names of the maverick Jewish women who have transformed the world of autobiographical graphic narratives. These women and many, many more, have challenged the traditional rubricks of comics making, and found authentic drawing styles and voices on their pages. They uncover family stories, and their own evolving journeys of self, often as they unpack and examine their Jewish lives and identities. In this talk I will introduce the artists and artworks that have inspired me as I produced The Book of Sarah, my autobiographical graphic novel that was distilled from thousands of diary drawings begun in my parents’ garden shed back in 1996. My book is structured like an alternative bible as I chart my movement away from the religious lifestyle I followed as a teenager and find a feminist Jewish identity that now suits me better. Tracing my experiences of family, motherhood, and mental health, I also critique the patriarchal cannon of art history that once held me enrapt at art school, and bring forth the sidelined, silenced women of great master paintings.