I'm itching to call my ex gf that I portrayed her as a reptilian shapeshifter in my comic (her true form). I just cant find her number!!!
Yeah… she's going to be so burned when she realizes she missed out on a mature, responsible guy who takes out his aggression through strained metaphors via a comic. That'll show her.
Anyway, Atom brought up Allan, and if you're curious to see how a secret like that can go out of control, you can read his The Truth arc.
Think about stuff like this, though, is that, in a way, having the people know about it can taint the comic. Basically in the sense that, if you know they're reading it, you might not do something that would be good for the comic, or perhaps even true, for fear of upsetting them. Really, though, it depends on what kind of comic one is doing. I'm not so much saying this for Liz's sake (since she already told her boyfriend), but it's something I've been thinking about, largely because I've also started an autobiographical comic recently (seems to be all the rage, doesn't it?)
I guess it really depends on what kind of comic one is writing. If a person is just writing a fun, silly comic that pokes fun at themselves as well as their friends, there's not much to worry about. But some people use their comic to express darker feelings, such as anger, confusion, or sadness. And if someone you know and care about finds out you're telling people about the time they threw a can of coke at the back of your head because they were in a shitty mood from work, they might get upset. Odds are they're most likely embarassed by the whole thing, and don't like that it's being recorded on the internet. But something like that is also real, and it's emotional… well, not my example, obviously, since I just made it up. But it helps people sort through things, and that's got to count for something.