Yes that's a good observation Anthony. I'm certain that were I to write a comic or graphic novel (which is my intent, sometime in the future hopefully), the fact that I have PTSD would definitely be an influence. Writers do tend to include personal experiences in their writing, consciously or unconsciously.

Off the top of my head, I know that the creator of V for Vendetta had an odd childhood with fanatical religious parents and "escaped" from them in his teens. He's a very strange person himself, worships an obscure Roman snake god and practices magick, among other things..

Stan Lee (Stanley Lieber), the creator of X-Men (and Spiderman, The Hulk, and many others), is the son of Jewish immigrant parents. He served in WW2 and helped to liberate fellow Jews from the Nazis. I read him saying once in an interview that his experiences in WW2 influenced the characters he created. Most of the creators of the original American comic book characters are now in their 80s and 90s and lived through the Great Depression, and many also served in WW2. So I imagine their experiences of the Depression and being in the war shaped the characters they created.

Thanks for the book examples Linda. I haven't read any of those but I'll have to check them out at some point. There aren't many movies that show PTSD other than combat related. There is one though that's quite good, it's called "My Family", it's about a hispanic family in East L.A. The one character witnesses the murder of his older brother while he's still a child. The movie then shows him growing up, being an alcoholic, isolating himself from everyone and basically having all sorts of troubles. He meets and marries a woman from El Salvador who is also traumatized. Anyways it's very good. He definitely has PTSD although it's not mentioned.