This essay presents a critical reflection on contemporary autobiographical illustration by women as a space for subjective, political, and aesthetic enunciation. Building on the classical conceptualization of autobiography as a retrospective narrative in prose, the study explores the expansion of the autobiographical genre into the visual realm, examining the specifics of drawing and imagery in the construction of the self, while questioning how female bodies are represented, reclaimed, and reconfigured through illustration, counteracting the normative models of femininity imposed by dominant visual culture. The incorporation of humor, irony, and the grotesque in these practices is seen as a strategy of resistance and symbolic reappropriation, allowing the authors to expose the absurdity of social conventions, challenge decorum, and assert experiences traditionally silenced. In this sense, visual autobiography emerges as fertile ground for negotiating female identity, while also addressing the relationship between self-representation, gaze, and agency. Supported by an interdisciplinary approach, this reflection aims to contribute to a broader understanding of the critical and transformative potential of autobiographical graphic practices, focusing on contemporary female illustrators whose work contributes to a more inclusive and comprehensive representation of women’s experiences, filtered by humor. Far from being a mere rhetorical flourish, humor becomes central to the visual reconfiguration of the sensitive and the political, creating spaces where complexity, contradiction and dissent are not only possible but necessary.