This chapter presents the first step in the book’s exploration of the selfhood shaped in autobiographical graphic narratives, or autographics. The chapter employs Paul Ricoeur’s theory of identity to show that while autographics generate a variety of formal tensions, these tensions should be understood as dialectical. Through a close reading of several panels from Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Zoe Thorogood’s It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, the chapter argues that autographics’ verbal narratives, which often present the self in a first-person voice, shape what Ricoeur characterises as an ipse-identity, whereas the drawn figure, which represents this self from a third-person perspective, generates an idem-identity. Both forms of identity are rooted in what Ricoeur calls flesh, a concept that the chapter links to the cartoonist’s corporeality as it returns in the drawn lines of autographics. The chapter argues that the dialectical tensions between these understandings of identity shape a narrative identity, which, in the case of autographics that tell a story of cartoonist-becoming, is defined as a narrative cartoonist-identity.