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Playboy
The Playboy
by Chester Brown
published by Drawn and Quarterly

This classic memoir of Chester's high school obsession with Playboy magazine disabused Hugh Hefner of his notion that Playboy magazine was just good clean fun, but only for the five minutes or so it took him to put it out of his mind.  Other, more engaged thinkers will hold onto this impression a bit longer.  It's hard for most to realize in this day and age when the high school memoir is a major staple of the comics  – or should we say, graphic novel – market, but when the comics that make up this volume, and its companion piece, I Never Liked You, were first serialized in the pages of Yummy Fur, they were like nothing anyone had ever read before.  Chester's acute perceptions of and brutal honesty about his adolescence surpassed that of even the master of confessional comics, R. Crumb.  The only true precursor to these works is Justin Green's seminal underground comix masterpiece, Binky Brown and the Virgin Mary.  But, as good and revolutionary as Justin Green's work indisputably was, it was Chester Brown's work that created the template for today's spate of confessional comics.

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