The Little Man (comics)
The Little Man: Short Strips 1980-1995 | |
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Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography |
The Little Man: Short Strips 1980–1995 is a collection of short works by award-winning Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, published by Drawn & Quarterly in 1998. It collects most of Brown's non-graphic novel short works up to that point, with the notable exception of his incomplete adaptations of the Gospels.
The collection is especially notable for the cartoon essay My Mom was a Schizophrenic, which
This book also notably collects the stories
Contents
- The Toilet Paper Revolt (1980)
- City Swine (1981)
- Walrus Blubber Sandwich (1981)
- Mars (1982)
- Bob Crosby and his Electric TV (1982)
- Dirk the Gerbil (1982)
- Brad's Enlightenment (1984)
- Garbage Day (1984)
- My Old Neighborhood[a] (1984)
- An Authentic Inuit Folk Song (1984)
- I Live in the Bottomless Pit (1984)
- Things to Avoid Stepping On (1985)
- Help Me Dear (1985)
- The Gourmets from Planet X (1986)
- A Late Night Snack (1986)
- An American Story (1986)
- The Twin (1986)
- Back to Obedience School (1986)
- Anti-Censorship Propaganda (1988)
- The Afternoon of March the 3rd (1988)
- Helder (1989)
- Showing "Helder" (1989)
- The Little Man (1991)
- The Weird Canadian Artist (1991)
- Danny's Story (1991)
- Knock Knock (1993)
- My Mom was a Schizophrenic (1995)
The Twin
Adapted from a story from the
Autobiographical Comics
Between finishing
My Mom Was a Schizophrenic
Originally appearing in Underwater #4, Brown has said he wanted to write an
The strip is an anti-psychiatric
Brown intended the strip to cover some of the ideas of R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz. He first encountered the ideas that would provide the basis of the strip in Szasz's Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry, which he came across in 1990.[10]
The strip is six pages, each laid out in a 9-panel grid, which "seems to be well suited for 'talking at the reader' stories", as it "really lets the author pack in the dialogue".[11] It came complete with two pages of footnotes, which were expanded on in the collection.
Publication history
In 1997, Brown took some time off of doing his series
The book originally came with a 12-page appendix, with notes on the backgrounds of each of the stories in the collection. The 2006 edition of the book added four more pages of commentary to the appendix.[12]
Recognition
Award Nominations
Awards | |||
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Year | Organization | Award | Result |
1998 | Ignatz Awards[13]
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Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection | Nominated |
1999 | Harvey Award Nominations[14]
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Special Award for Excellence in Presentation | Nominated |
Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work | Nominated |
Foreign editions
Translations | |||||
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Language | Title | Publisher | Date | Translator | ISBN |
French | Le Petit Homme | Éditions Delcourt (Outsider collection) | 2009-03-04 | Laurence Lemaire | 978-2-756-01661-0 |
Korean | 똑똑 리틀맨 | Sai Comics | 2004-11 | 8-932905-84-3 |
References
- ^ Sim 2003, part 2.
- ^ The Comics Journal 1999.
- ^ Brown 1998, p. 163.
- ^ a b Brown 1998, p. 168.
- ^ Brown 1998, p. 168; Birch 2012, p. 174.
- ^ Juno 1997.
- ^ Birch 2012, p. 174.
- ^ Brown 1995, p. 154.
- ^ Wolk 2007, p. 147.
- ^ Juno 1997, p. 141.
- ^ Santoro 2010.
- ^ Park 2011b, p. 2.
- ^ Ignatz Awards official website
- ^ Harvey Awards official website
Notes
- Canadian spelling, in this story he uses the spelling "Neighborhood" rather than "Neighbourhood"
Works cited
Primary sources
- ISBN 1-896597-13-0.
Secondary sources
- Birch, Michael (2012). "My Mom was a Schizophrenic". Mediating Mental Health: Contexts, Debates and Analysis. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 174–185. ISBN 978-0-7546-7474-0. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- ISBN 1-896597-13-0.
- ISSN 0194-7869.
- Juno, Andrea (1997). "Interview with Chester Brown". Dangerous Drawings. Juno Books, LLC. pp. 130–147. ISBN 0-9651042-8-1.
- Park, Ed (2011-05-02). "Text Appeal". Toronto Standard. Retrieved 2011-05-05. (followup at The Comics Journal, Notes to a Note on the Notes of Chester Brown)
- Park, Ed (2011-05-11). "Notes to a Note on the Notes of Chester Brown". The Comics Journal. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
- Santoro, Frank (2010-10-23). "9-Panel Grids". Comics Comics. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
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- Sim, Dave (2003). "Getting Riel (interview)". Cerebus (295–297). Aardvark-Vanaheim. Also available online: parts 1 2 and 3.
- ISBN 978-0-306-81509-6.
External links
- Chester Brown's catalogue page at Drawn & Quarterly's website
- Preview (696Danny's Story)