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Chester Brown - Conversations (Paperback)
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Chester Brown - Conversations (Paperback)
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series
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The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in subject
matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new methods of
publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities. Among
those artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown (b. 1960)
quickly developed a cult following due to the undeniable quality
and originality of his Yummy Fur (1983-1994). Chester Brown:
Conversations collects interviews covering all facets of the
cartoonist's long career and includes several pieces from
now-defunct periodicals and fanzines. It also includes original
annotations from Chester Brown, provided especially for this book,
in which he adds context, second thoughts, and other valuable
insights into the interviews. Brown was among a new generation of
artists whose work dealt with decidedly non-mainstream subjects. By
the 1980s comics were, to quote a by-now well-worn phrase, ""not
just for kids anymore,"" and subsequent censorious attacks by
parents concerned about the more salacious material being published
by the major publishers--subjects that routinely included adult
language, realistic violence, drug use, and sexual content--began
to roil the industry. Yummy Fur came of age during this storm and
its often-offensive content, including dismembered, talking
penises, led to controversy and censorship. With Brown's highly
unconventional adaptations of the Gospels, and such comics memoirs
as The Playboy (1991/1992) and I Never Liked You (1991-1994), Brown
gradually moved away from the surrealistic, humor oriented strips
toward autobiographical material far more restrained and elegiac in
tone than his earlier strips. This work was followed by Louis Riel
(1999-2003), Brown's critically acclaimed comic book biography of
the controversial nineteenth-century Canadian revolutionary, and
Paying for It (2011), his best-selling memoir on the life of a
john.
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