Chester Brown
Chester Brown | |
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Born | Chester William David Brown 16 May 1960 |
Other names | CWDB |
Occupations |
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Political party | Libertarian |
Awards | Inkpot Award (2011)[1] |
Chester William David Brown (born 16 May 1960) is a Canadian cartoonist. Brown has gone through several stylistic and thematic periods. He gained notice in
Brown draws from a range of influences, including monster and superhero comic books, underground comix, and comic strips such as Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie. His later works employ a sparse drawing style and flat dialogue. Rather than the traditional method of drawing complete pages, Brown draws individual panels without regard for page composition and assembles them into pages after completion. Since the late 1990s Brown has had a penchant for providing detailed annotations for his work and extensively altering and reformatting older works.
Brown at first self-published his work as a minicomic called Yummy Fur beginning in 1983; Toronto publisher Vortex Comics began publishing the series as a comic book in 1986. The content tended towards controversial themes: a distributor and a printer dropped it in the late 1980s, and it has been held up at the Canada–United States border. Since 1991, Brown has associated himself with Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly. Following Louis Riel Brown ceased serializing his work to publish graphic novels directly. He has received grants from the Canada Council to complete Louis Riel and Paying for It.
Life and career
Early life
Chester William David Brown was born on 16 May 1960 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[2] He grew up in Châteauguay, a Montreal suburb with a large English-speaking minority.[3] His grandfather was history professor Chester New, after whom Chester New Hall is named at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.[4] He has a brother, Gordon, who is two years his junior. His mother had schizophrenia,[5] and died in 1976[6] after falling down the stairs while in the Montreal General Hospital.[5]
Though he grew up in a predominantly French-speaking province and had his first mainstream success with his biography of French-speaking Métis rebel leader Louis Riel, Brown says he does not speak French. He said he had little contact with francophone culture when he was growing up, and the French speakers he had contact with spoke with him in English.[7]
Brown described himself as a "nerdy teeneager" attracted to comic books from a young age, especially ones about superheroes and monsters. He aimed at a career in superhero comics, and after graduating from high school in 1977 headed to New York City, where he had unsuccessful but encouraging interviews with Marvel and DC Comics.[3] He moved to Montreal where he attended Dawson College. The program did not aim at a comics career, and he dropped out after a little more than a year.[8] He tried to find work in New York, but was rejected again. He discovered the alternative comics scene that was developing in the early 1980s, and grasped its feeling freedom to produce what he wanted.[9] At 19 he moved to Toronto,[10] where he got a job in a photography lab and lived frugally in rooming houses.
Toronto (1979–1986)
At around twenty, Brown's interests moved away from superhero and monster comic books towards the work of
In 1983 Brown's girlfriend Kris Nakamura introduced him to the small-press publisher John W. Curry (or "jwcurry"), whose example inspired the local small-press community.
Brown and a number of other cartoonists featured in a show called Kromalaffing at the Grunwald Art Gallery in early 1984. He had become a part of Toronto's avant-garde community, along with other artists, musicians and writers, centred around
Vortex and Ed the Happy Clown (1986–1989)
Starting publication in December 1986,[9] the first three issues of Yummy Fur reprinted the contents of the seven issues of the earlier minicomic, and Brown quit his job at the copy shop.[13] Brown began to weave together some of the earlier unrelated strips[14] into an ongoing surreal black comedy called Ed the Happy Clown. The bizarre misfortunes of the title character include being inundated in the faeces of a man unable to stop defaecating, being chased by cannibalistic pygmies, befriending a vengeful vampire, and having the head of his penis replaced by the head of a miniature Ronald Reagan from another dimension.[15]
A counterpoint to the at-times
The offensive content of Ed caused it to be dropped by one printer,[17][18] and is suspected to be behind Diamond Comic Distributors' decision to stop distributing Yummy Fur starting with issue #9.[19] After The Comics Journal announced they would be investigating the issue, Diamond started distributing it again.[20]
In 1989 the first Ed collection appeared, collecting the Ed stories from the first twelve issues of Yummy Fur with an introduction by American Splendor writer Harvey Pekar and drawn by Brown. At this point, Brown had grown to lose interest in the Ed story[21] as he gravitated toward the autobiographical approach of Pekar, Joe Matt, and Julie Doucet,[22] and the simpler artwork of Seth.[23] He brought Ed to an abrupt end in Yummy Fur #18 to turn to autobiography.
Autobio and Drawn & Quarterly (1990–1992)
The 19th issue of Yummy Fur[24] began his autobiographical period. First came the strip "Helder", about a violent tenant in Brown's boarding house, followed by "Showing 'Helder'", about the creation of "Helder" and the reactions of Brown's friends to the work-in-progress.[25] With "Showing 'Helder'" Brown breaks from his earlier syle by giving the panels no borders and arranging them organically on the page—a style that was to characterize his work of this period.[26] He found his friends were uncomfortable with his writing about their lives, and soon turned to his adolescence for source material.[27]
Brown began the first installment of what was to become the graphic novel The Playboy in Yummy Fur #21, under the title Disgust. The revealing, confessional story tells of the teenage Brown's feelings of guilt over his obsessive masturbating over the Playmates of Playboy magazine, and the difficulties he had relating to women even into adulthood.[15] Critical and fan reception was strong, though it drew some criticism from those who saw it glorifying pornography. Playboy's publisher Hugh Hefner wrote Brown a letter of concern that Brown could feel such guilt in a post-sexual revolution world.[28] It appeared in a collected edition titled The Playboy in 1992.[28]
Around this time, Brown had become friends with the cartoonists Seth and
Vancouver and Underwater (1992–1997)
In 1992, Brown began a relationship with musician
Brown moved away from autobio after the conclusion of Fuck, and for his next major project, Chris Oliveros convinced him to change the title, believing the title Yummy Fur was no longer a fitting one for the direction that Brown's work had taken, and that the title made the book harder to sell. His next work, Underwater, would appear under its own title, while continuing the Gospel of Matthew adaptation as a backup feature.
Underwater was an ambitious work. Its lead character, Kupifam, was an infant who was surrounded by an encoded[a] gibberish-like language, which she comes to understand in bits and pieces. Fans and critics gave the series a lukewarm reception, with its glacial pacing and obscure narrative. Eventually, Brown came to feel he had gotten in over his head with the scope of the project. In early 1998, he decided to leave it in an unfinished state.[31]
Partway through the series, in 1996, Brown and Lee broke up. They continued to live with each other, and have continued to be close friends. Brown came to decide that he no longer wanted to have exclusive relations with women, but also realized he lacked the social skills to pick up girls for casual sex.[32] He spent the next few years celibate.
Louis Riel and frequenting of prostitutes (1998–2003)
Brown's father died in 1998[33] as he was putting together his collection of short strips, The Little Man. He lost interest in Underwater, and had been reading about Métis resistance leader Louis Riel, and decided he wanted to do a biography on him. He wanted to do it as an original graphic novel, but Chris Oliveros convinced him to serialize it first.[34] Drawn & Quarterly put out the ten issues of Louis Riel from 1999 until 2003, and with help from a CAD$16,000[10] grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts,[35] the finished annotated collection appeared in 2003, to much acclaim and healthy sales. In Canada it became a bestseller,[36] a first for a Canadian graphic novel.[37]
In 1999, after three years of celibacy, Brown decided he would start frequenting prostitutes. His open nature prevented him from hiding this fact from his friends, and the fact soon became widely known. After completing Louis Riel, he embarked upon another autobiographical graphic novel that would detail his experiences as a
In the early 2000s, Brown moved out from the place he shared with Lee and got himself a
Libertarianism and Paying for It (2004–present)
While reading up on issues surrounding Louis Riel, Brown became increasingly interested in property rights. His reading eventually took him to believe that countries with strong property rights prospered, while those without them did not. This path gradually led him to espouse the ideology of libertarianism. He joined the Libertarian Party of Canada and ran as the party's candidate in the riding of Trinity—Spadina in Toronto in the 2008 and 2011 federal elections.[38][39]
During the long wait between Louis Riel and Paying for It, Brown allowed Drawn & Quarterly to reprint Ed the Happy Clown as a serial comic book, with explanatory notes[40] that were becoming both more common and more detailed in Brown's work.[41] In 2007 Brown provided six weeks worth of strips to Toronto's NOW magazine as part of the "Live With Culture" ad campaign. The strip features a male zombie and a living human girl participating in various cultural activities, culminating in the two going to a movie theatre to watch Bruce McDonald's yet-unmade Yummy Fur adaptation.[42]
Brown's next graphic novel, Paying for It, came out during the 2011 election, in which he was running.[43] Again he finished with the help of a Canada Council grant.[44][45] It was a polemic promoting the decriminalization of prostitution, and attracted praise for its artistry and bare-all honesty,[46] and criticism for its subject matter and Brown's perceived naïveté as he brushes aside concerns about human trafficking[47] and dismisses drug addiction as a myth.[48] At about this time, Brown finally stated he didn't intend to finish his Gospel of Matthew, which had been on hiatus since 1997.[49]
In 2016 Brown followed up Paying for It with
Personal life
Religion
Brown was brought up in a Baptist household,
Politics
In the 1980s Brown expressed sympathy for left-wing politics, although he has stated his understanding of politics was not deep.[10] He considered himself an anarchist until, while researching Louis Riel,[33] he became interested in issues of property rights, especially influenced by his reading of Tom Bethell's The Noblest Triumph, a book which argues that the West owes its prosperity to having established strong property rights.[33] Brown thus gained an interest in libertarianism—a belief that government should protect property rights (although, he says, not copyrights), and otherwise should mostly keep out of people's lives. After attending a few meetings of the Libertarian Party of Canada, he was asked to run for Parliament, and collected the 100 signatures necessary to appear on the ballot.[10]
Brown ran as the Libertarian Party's candidate for the riding (or constituency) of Trinity—Spadina in the 2008 federal election.[10] He came in fifth out of seven candidates. He stood in the same riding for the same party in the 2011 Canadian federal election,[57] coming in fifth out of six candidates.[58] The 2011 election coincided with the release of Paying for It, in which Brown talks about his frequenting prostitutes. He was worried his promotion of that topic in the media would make the Libertarian Party uncomfortable with having him run, but his official Party agent and the Ontario representative assured him that, as libertarians, they believed in individual freedom, and would continue to support his candidacy.[59]
Personal relations
A longtime friend of fellow cartoonists
to Brown ("Best Cartoonist, Best Friend").Brown had a long-term relationship with the musician, actress and media personality
Work
Thematic subjects
Throughout his early years as a cartoonist he mostly experimented with drawing on the darker side of his
Brown first discusses mental illness in his strip "My Mother Was A Schizophrenic". In it, he puts forward the
Brown's Louis Riel book was inspired by the alleged mental instability of Riel, and Brown's own anarchist politics, and he began his research for the book in 1998. Over the course of researching for the book, he shifted his politics over the course of several years until he was a libertarian.[b] Regarding anarchy, Brown has said, "I'm still an anarchist to the degree that I think we should be aiming towards an anarchist society but I don't think we can actually get there. We probably do need some degree of government."[63]
Art style
Brown's drawing style has evolved and changed a lot throughout his career. He's been known to switch between using
Working method
Brown does not follow the tradition of drawing his comics by the page – he draws them one
He has used a number of different drawing tools, including
Drawing influences
In an interview with Seth, Brown says his earliest childhood cartoon was an imitation of Doug Wright's Little Nipper.[55] He frequently mentions Steve Gerber as amongst his foremost influences of his teenage years. From about the age of 20, Brown discovered the work of Robert Crumb and other underground artists, as well as class comic strip artists such as Harold Gray, whose influence is most evident in Brown's Louis Riel.
Brown often talks of contemporaries
The stiff, stylized look of
Bibliography
Series
Title | Date | Publisher | Issues | Notes |
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mini-comic )
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1983–1986 | self-published | 7[69] | #1–6 compiled in one volume in February 1987 with an extra one-page strip[70] |
Yummy Fur
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1986–1995 | Vortex Comics (#1–24) Drawn & Quarterly (#25–32) |
32 | |
Underwater | 1995–1998 | Drawn & Quarterly | 11 | Left incomplete |
Louis Riel | 1999–2003 | Drawn & Quarterly | 10 | |
Ed the Happy Clown | 2004–2006 | Drawn & Quarterly | 9 | Reprinted material from Yummy Fur with extra background information |
Books
Title | Year | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
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Ed the Happy Clown: A Yummy Fur Book | 1989 | Vortex Comics | 978-0-921451-04-4 |
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Ed the Happy Clown: The Definitive Ed Book | 1992 | Vortex Comics | 978-0-921451-08-2 |
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The Playboy | 1992 | Drawn & Quarterly | 978-0-9696701-1-7 | |
I Never Liked You | 1994 | Drawn & Quarterly | 978-0-9696701-6-2 | |
The Little Man: Short Strips 1980–1995 | 1998 | Drawn & Quarterly | 978-1-896597-13-3 | |
I Never Liked You (Second Edition) | 2002 | Drawn & Quarterly | 978-1-896597-14-0 |
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Louis Riel | 2004 | Drawn & Quarterly | 978-1-894937-89-4 | |
Paying for It | 2011 | Drawn & Quarterly | 978-1-77046-048-5 |
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Ed the Happy Clown: A Graphic Novel | 2012 | Drawn & Quarterly | 978-1-77046-075-1 |
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Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus
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2016 | Drawn & Quarterly | 978-1-77046-234-2 |
Title changes
Many of his books have undergone title changes, sometimes at the behest of his publisher, sometimes without his permission. Ed the Happy Clown: the Definitive Ed Book was given the Definitive title, despite the fact that he "didn't want to put that as the subtitle of the second edition. Vortex did it for marketing reasons."[71] The Playboy was originally titled Disgust and then The Playboy Stories, and I Never Liked You was called Fuck (the German translation retains that title[72]). Underwater was originally intended to appear in Yummy Fur, but Brown's new publisher felt they could attract more readers with a different title. Paying for It carries the sense of a double entendre that Brown dislikes[c]–he would have preferred to call the book I Pay for Sex.[43]
Illustration
Brown has also done a certain amount of illustration work. In 1998, he did the cover to Sphinx Productions' Comic Book Confidential #1;
Collaborations
Brown provided the illustrations for the story "A Tribute to
He
He also
A jam piece with Dave Sim was included in the Cerebus World Tour Book in 1995.[81]
Recognition
Over the years, Brown has received four
Awards
Year | Organization | Award for | Award |
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1990 | Harvey Awards
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Chester Brown | Best Cartoonist[83] |
1990 | Harvey Awards | Ed the Happy Clown | Best Graphic Album[83] for the first edition |
1990 | U.K. Comic Art Award | Ed the Happy Clown | Best Graphic Novel/Collection[29] for the first edition |
1999 | Urhunden Prizes | Ed the Happy Clown | Foreign Album[84] |
2004 | Harvey Awards | Louis Riel | Best Writer[85] |
2004 | Harvey Awards | Louis Riel | Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work[85] |
Nominations
Award Nominations | |||
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Year | Organization | Award for | Award |
1989 | Harvey Awards[86]
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Yummy Fur
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Best Writer |
Best Cartoonist | |||
Best Continuing or Limited Series | |||
Special Achievement in Humor | |||
1990 | Chester Brown | Special Award for Humor | |
1991 | Yummy Fur
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Best Continuing or Limited Series | |
" The Playboy Stories" in Yummy Fur #21–23
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Best Single Issue or Story | ||
Yummy Fur
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Best Cartoonist (Writer/Artist) | ||
1992 | Best Cartoonist | ||
1993 | The Playboy
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Best Graphic Album of Previously Released Material | |
1998 | Ignatz Awards[87]
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The Little Man | Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection |
1999 | Harvey Awards[86]
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Special Award for Excellence in Presentation | |
1999 | Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work | ||
2000 | Louis Riel | Best New Series | |
2002 | Ignatz Awards[87]
|
Outstanding Artist | |
2003 | Harvey Awards[86]
|
Chester Brown | Best Cartoonist |
Louis Riel | Best Continuing or Limited Series | ||
2004 | Ignatz Awards[87]
|
Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection | |
Outstanding Artist |
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h Bell 2006, p. 144.
- ^ Epp 2002; Bell 2006, p. 164.
- ^ a b Brown 2002, p. 191.
- ^ a b Grace & Hoffman 2013b, p. xxxii.
- ^ Interview with Dave Sim Part 1
- ^ a b Juno 1997, p. 132.
- ^ a b c Bell 2006, p. 146.
- ^ a b c d e f Weisblott 2008.
- ^ Juno 1997, p. 131.
- ^ a b Bell 2006, p. 145.
- ^ Juno 1997, p. 135.
- ^ Wolk 2007, p. 149.
- ^ a b Bell 2006, p. 154.
- ^ Grace & Hoffman 2013a, pp. xvi–xvii.
- ^ Mackay 2005.
- ^ a b c d e Brown, Ed the Happy Clown #5, notes page 1
- ^ Davis 1989.
- ^ Brown, Ed the Happy Clown #8, notes page 2
- ^ Levin 1993, p. 47.
- ^ Grace & Hoffman 2013a, p. xvi.
- ^ Køhlert 2012, p. 381.
- ^ Pustz 1999, p. 92.
- ^ Grace & Hoffman 2013a, p. xviii.
- ^ Grace & Hoffman 2013a, pp. xviii–xix.
- ^ Grace & Hoffman 2013a, p. xix.
- ^ a b Grace & Hoffman 2013a, p. xx.
- ^ a b Bell 2006, p. 150.
- ^ Verstappen 2008.
- ^ Bell 2006, p. 158.
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- ^ ISBN 9781621039693.
- ^ Interview Archived 24 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine with Heidi MacDonald in The Pulse. 2004-04-20. retrieved 2011-04-10
- Canada Council for the Arts, August 2002. page 29
- ^ Baker & Atkinson 2004.
- ^ Bell 2006, p. 166.
- ^ "Trinity-Spadina 2011 federal election results: Chow crushes opposition". West Annex News. 1 May 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
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- ^ Wolk 2007, p. 148.
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- ^ a b Wagner 2011.
- ^ Weisblott 2011.
- Canada Council for the Arts, August 2006. page 30
- ^ Mackay 2011; Heer 2011.
- ^ Kohler 2011; Garner 2011, p. 2.
- ^ Randle 2011; Brown 2011, pp. 250–251; Mautner 2011.
- ^ Rogers 2011, part 3.
- ^ Donachie 2016.
- ^ a b Lehoczky 2016.
- ^ Juno 1997, p. 143; Hwang 1998.
- ^ Juno 1997, p. 143.
- ^ Hwang 1998.
- ^ a b Seth Interviews Chester Brown Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, hosted at sequential.spiltink.org. retrieved 2011-05-15
- ^ Walker 2011.
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- ^ Rogers 2011, part 5.
- ^ "Fred Hembeck's Dateline". The Ephemerist. 11 January 2007.
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- ^ Matheson 2004.
- ^ Daniel Epstein. "Chronicling the revolutionary:Chester Brown on Louis Riel".[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c Grammel 1990, p. 35.
- ^ Tousley 2005.
- ^ Rogers 2011, part 2.
- ^ Juno 1997, p. 136.
- ^ Rogers 2011, part 1.
- ^ inside front cover of Yummy Fur #1. Vortex Comics (1986)
- ^ Bell 2006, p. 147.
- ^ Arnold 2004.
- ^ Reprodukt product page for Fuck Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Brown 2011, p. 259.
- ^ Sterling, Mike (25 January 2010). "COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL #1 (SPHINX PRODUCTIONS, 1988)". Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-14-303961-7
- ^ "Cover Story on Graphic Novels in N.Y. Times Magazine: Will They Replace Traditional Novels?". ICv2. 13 July 2004. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ "Chester Brown on the NY Times Magazine Cover". Inappropriate Laughter. 20 January 2010. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ Carruthers.
- ^ Balkissoon 2010.
- ^ "Annotated 1963 Annotations". Retrieved 19 May 2011.
- ^ Sim, Dave et al. Cerebus World Tour Book 1995, pages 47–65. Aardvark-Vanaheim, 1995. ISSN 0712-7774
- ^ "Nominations for the 2011 Joe Shuster Awards". February 2011.
- ^ a b "1990 Harvey Award Winners". The Harvey Awards official website. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ Hammarlund 2009; Hahn 2006.
- ^ a b "2004 Harvey Award Winners". The Harvey Awards official website. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ a b c Harvey Awards official website
- ^ a b c Ignatz Awards official website
Notes
- ^ "It's really just a code. Simple letter substitution." – Brown in 2008[30]
- ^ "I was an anarchist when I began the strip and I knew the story would make the government look bad. ... But in doing all the research for this book [Louis Riel], I learned a lot about general political theory. I came to realize that anarchy is completely unworkable, which I sort of suspected all along." – Brown in 2004[62]
- S-T-D, I haven't been arrested, I haven't lost my career, and my friends and family haven't rejected me." – Brown in 2011[73]
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- Weisblott, Marc (17 September 2008). "Chester the Libertarian". Retrieved 5 May 2011.[dead link]
- Weisblott, Marc (14 April 2011). "Federal election candidate publishes comic book memoir about prostitutes". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-306-81509-6.
Further reading
- Chester Brown: Conversations by Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman, with notes by Chester Brown, University Press of Mississippi, 2013
External links
This section's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. (July 2019) |
- Chester Brown at the Grand Comics Database
- Chester Brown at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- News Briefs featuring Chester Brown at Drawn & Quarterly's website
- Time.com interview with Chester Brown
- CBC Arts Online article about Chester Brown's Ed The Happy Clown series
- Chester Brown induction into CBC Arts Online's Alternative Canadian Walk of Fame
- Audio interview Archived 19 July 2011 at the Seth