This chapter explores ‘documentary comics’ and ‘graphic memoir’ as distinct comics genres, discussing differences and similarities in their affordances and constraints, especially concerning their materialization as graphic narrative. The proposed distinction will be illustrated through a case study of two works by Sarah Glidden: her graphic memoir How to Understand Israel in 30 Days or Less (2010) and her documentary comic Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (2016). In addition to a discussion of Glidden’s authorial intent, which is explicitly stated in the paratexts or voiced as metanarrative commentary, this investigation focuses on a range of other narrative techniques used to represent subjective experiences that are particular to both the works and their genres.