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Chester Brown

Title	Creator	Publisher	Series	Price
Paying for It	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly		$22.75 ($24.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Chester Brown is one of the greats of cartooning. His bravery in baring all in pen and ink is unmatched, in our opinion, even by the legendary R. Crumb, in whose footsteps he follows, and who, quite fittingly, has provided the introduction to this work. In Paying for It, a 280 page hardcover that is his first new work in eight years, he bares his soul and reveals a world in which sex is an end in and of itself, a consumer good like any other. Ironies abound as he comparison shops, debates tipping percentages and searches for value. Chester's brilliance as a cartoonist so utterly overshadows his skills as a polemicist, that the book, which is putatively a defense of decriminalizing prostitution, is transformed into something else entirely: an implicit indictment of the commodification of human sexuality by contemporary corporate capitalism.
Louis Riel - S/N hardcover	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly		$39.95 ($39.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This book is a downright hefty tome that's nicely put together. It features a textured hard cover with 276 interior pages on a heavy cream colored stock. Done in a style deliberately reminscent of Harold Grey's Little Orphan Annie, Louis Riel is sub-titled, "A Comic-Strip Biography." "Who is Louis Riel?," you may well ask. Well, that's exactly what this book sets out to answer; and then some. Not to leave you entirely in the dark, however, we will tell you that Louis Riel was a Metis (descended from both French immigrant and native American Indian stock) Canadian whose adventures took place primarily during the second half of the 19th century, and that he was an important, if little understood, figure in Canadian history. Brown's life of Riel weaves an intricate mosaic of political intrigue, big money scheming and the rugged and sometimes brutal struggles between the native settlers and the power brokers that are out to add them to their conquests. This fascinating fable of frontier life presents one man's metaphysical struggle for meaning, and in the process creates an allegory for the ages that has more in common with current events than you might think. SPECIAL NOTE : This listing is for the signed (by Chester Brown, of course) and numbered hardcover edition. This edition was limited to 400 copies, and we still have a few left! The tipped in signature plate includes an extra page NOT (at least, to the best of our knowledge) included in any other edition!
I Never Liked You	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly		$15.00 ($16.95 list)
Read more and comment...	One of the best – perhaps the best, and almost without doubt, the most painfully sad – graphic memoir ever penned. The urtext of adolescent alienation. An undisputed masterpiece. Recommended to all serious comics readers as well as anyone who needs help in facing up to painful and unhappy memories.
The Playboy	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly		$11.75 ($12.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	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.
Underwater #11	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$7.50 ($3.25 list)
Read more and comment...	This is the last issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed (this is as far as it went) – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language. It is now out of print and we have very few copies left in stock.
Underwater #10	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$7.50 ($3.25 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	This is the second-to-last issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language. It is now out of print and we have very few copies left in stock. NO MORE! This issue is currently out of stock. We'll do our best to find more copies, but have no idea whether or not we'll be successful.
Underwater #9	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$3.25 ($3.25 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
Underwater #8	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$3.50 ($3.50 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
Underwater #7	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$3.50 ($3.50 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
Underwater #6	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$3.50 ($3.50 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
Underwater #5	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$3.50 ($3.50 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
Underwater #4	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$2.95 ($2.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
Underwater #3	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$2.95 ($2.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
Underwater #2	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$2.95 ($2.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
Underwater #1	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Underwater	$2.95 ($2.95 list)
Read more and comment...	This issue of Chester Brown's unique – but, sadly, never completed – attempt to employ the language of comics to delinieate the development of awareness and language is still available for cover price!
The Little Man: Short Strips 1980 - 1995	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly		$13.50 ($14.95 list)
Read more and comment...	There’s no one quite like Chester Brown. This is probably a good thing. Nevertheless, he is one of the handful of certifiable masters to have worked in comics during the last two decades; and while Dave Sim can take rightful credit for being, along with his estranged former spouse, Deni Loubert, the progenitor of the modern comics movement in Canada, it is Chester Brown that is the single most important figure to have emerged out of this movement thus far and it is Brown’s work that has had and will continue to have the greatest impact on both his compatriots and the medium as a whole. The Little Man is the best single-volume compendium of his work. Collecting work spread out over the span of the first fifteen years of Brown’s career, this pert little book packs a hefty punch. The bulk of the material is culled from Yummy Fur, the comics series which established Brown's reputation and with which he is still most closely associated in the comics world. Click on the image at left to read our full length reveiw.
Ed the Happy Clown #3	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$3.50 ($2.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The third issue of the definitive edition Chester Brown's seminal '80s masterwork is now in stock and available. This issue features extensive autobiographical and critical annotation by Brown himself. These notes shed new light on the genesis of many of the particular's of this epic tale as well as provide ample insight into Brown's state of mind at the time of creation. This issue comes wrapped in a new cover produced especially for this edition.
Ed the Happy Clown #2	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$3.50 ($2.95 list)
Read more and comment...	The second issue of the definitive edition Chester Brown's seminal '80s masterwork is now in stock and available. This issue features extensive autobiographical and critical annotation by Brown himself. These notes shed new light on the genesis of many of the particular's of this epic tale as well as provide ample insight into Brown's state of mind at the time of creation. This issue comes wrapped in a new cover produced especially for this edition.
Ed the Happy Clown #1	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$2.65 ($2.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Well, this comic book series pretty much occupies the opposite end of the social acceptability spectrum from Owly: this is not the comic book you want to share with your mom. Monsters, clowns, hordes of sociopathic pygmies, severed limbs, blown brains, talking penises... well, you probably get the idea. Originally serialized in Yummy Fur from 1983 through 1989, the saga of "Ed the Happy Clown" captured in ink on paper the non-stop hemorrhagic flow of Chester Brown's subconscious as he submitted to the surrealist imperative of spontaneous creation -- without, let it be said, personally identifying with the surrealists themselves (it's all explained in the copious notes that append this issue's installment -- and, presumably, those of future issues -- nine in all -- as well). This is the work that announced Chester's presence to the world of comics, and it made quite an impact at the time. Now's your chance to revisit one of the seminal comics of the 1980s, personally guided by the author himself.
Ed the Happy Clown #9	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$2.65 ($2.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	Well, it's like they say: when it rains it pours. Here it is, the final entry in this month's Chester Brown trifecta: the concluding chapters to Drawn and Quarterly's new edition of the stunningly original (and freakishly deranged) work that launched Mr. Brown's career. Originally published twenty years ago in the pages of Yummy Fur, "Ed the Happy Clown" remains comics' greatest single surrealistic work.
Ed the Happy Clown #7	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$2.65 ($2.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	It just keeps getting weirder and weirder in this epic representation of one of the strangest (and best!) comic book series of all time. If you're looking for the truest embodiment of the surrealist ethos in comics, look no further, you have found it.
Ed the Happy Clown #5	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$2.65 ($2.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	The latest installments of the classic story that put Chester Brown on the map when it was initially serialized in the pages of Yummy Fur nearly 20 years ago(!) are now in stock. These issues are tailor-made to enrage the repressed.
Ed the Happy Clown #4	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$2.65 ($2.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	The latest installments of the classic story that put Chester Brown on the map when it was initially serialized in the pages of Yummy Fur nearly 20 years ago(!) are now in stock (sorry about the delay on #4; it's a long story). These issues are tailor-made to enrage the repressed.
Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume Two	David Mazzuchelli, Leif Goldberg, Brian Chippendale, Elinore Norflus and more ...	Yale University Press		$20.00 ($28.00 list)
Read more and comment...	edited by Ivan Brunetti It's too early to say for certain, but this follow-up to Brunetti's already classic 2006 anthology, also published by Yale University Press, might just be even better than its precursor. One thing's for certain: Brunetti has held onto -- and further refined -- his editorial vision of arranging the work contained in this volume in an organic sequence, deftly managing to map out the similarities between artists so that each piece flows smoothly into into the other, creating an amazing sense of an innate connectivity between all areas of comics here on display. This book is a powerful ally in the struggle to bring the light of comics to those poor souls still dwelling in the darkness. It's the perfect choice to turn on a friend or relative to the joy, beauty and pleasures of our favorite medium. Hold onto your hats, here's the contributor list: Daniel Clowes, Saul Steinberg, Sammy Harkham, Chris Ware, R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman, Drew Friedman, Mark Beyer, Mack White, Jayr Pulga, Renee French, Kim Deitch, Richard Sala, J. Bradley Johnson, Archer Prewit, Anonymous (utility sketchbook), HJ Tuthill, Milt Gross, Bill Holman, Harvey Kurtzman, R.Crumb, Basil Wolverton, Art Spiegelman, Jess, John Hankiewicz, Tim Hensley, Bill Griffith, Richard McGuire, Gilbert Hernandez, Jim Woodring, David Collier, Eugene Teal, Charles Burns, Karl Wirsum, Gary Panter, Paper Rad, Fletcher Hanks, CF, Charles Forbell, Ron Rege, Jr., Winsor McCay, Matthew Thurber, Souther Salazar, Kevin Scalzo, Megan Kelso, James McShane, Laura Park, Vanessa Davis, Onsmith, Joe Matt, Jeffrey Brown, Martin Cendreda, Dave Kiersh, John Porcellino, Carrie Golus/Patrick Welch, Jessica Abel, Cole Johnson, Lynda Barry, Debbie Drechsler, Diane Noomin, Aline Kominsky-Crum, Ariel Bordeaux, Chester Brown, Anders Nilsen, Joe Sacco, Phoebe Gloeckner, Elinore Norflus, Brian Chippendale, Leif Goldberg, David Mazzuchelli, Jerry Moriarty, Ben Katchor, Frank Santoro, Dan Zettwoch, Kevin Huizenga, Harvey Pekar/R.Crumb, Carol Tyler, Maurice Vellekoop, Seth, Adrian Tomine, Jaime Hernandez & David Heatley. It's simply amazing. Comics Power! PLEASE NOTE: We feel compelled to mention that this volume includes several pieces that contain quite explicit sexual content; and while this content represents only a miniscule fraction of the total, it nevertheless renders this volume fit for ADULTS ONLY.
McSweeney's #13	Mark Beyer, Ivan Brunetti, Kaz, Art Spiegelman and more ...	McSweeney's	McSweeney's	$20.00 ($24.00 list)
Read more and comment...	Finally, it's here: the most anticipated release of 2004 (so far). Striving for objet d'art status, McSweeney's 13 comes as close as any comics release to attaining it. Starting with a dust jacket that folds out into a two sided comics poster: the outer side featuring a dense full color, 360º narrative by editor and comics fiend, Chris Ware; the inner side featuring a vaguely ceremonial (think Mayan) worshipping of the idols of comics by Gary Panter. But there's more: tucked into the folds of this dust-jacket-cum-suitable-for-framing-wall-art are two mini-comics commissioned especially for this issue; one -- in full color -- by Ron Rege, Jr., and the other in B & W (as it should be) by long time mini-master, John Porcellino. And that's just the dust jacket! Moving on to the front and back binding plates (the hard covers beneath the dust jacket), we have a hundred or so images culled from a 1936 guide to cartooning separated by a lavishly embossed spine. The end papers are by Ivan Brunetti, and feature a wallpaper of minimalistic renditions of his personal comics and cartoon hall of fame. And, finally, there is the contents of the book itself. The subject of much speculation as to whether it would be reprints or newly commissioned work, the answer is... Both! About half and half, depending on how you look at it. Here's how it breaks down: Some of the work has appeared in non-comics periodicals, but is collected herein for the first time. Under this category are Mark Beyer, Ivan Brunetti, Kaz, Art Spiegelman (although his pieces are being reprinted everywhere at this point) and some of the pieces by Chris Ware. Straight out reprints are the inclusions by Charles Burns (although the frontispiece is new), Chester Brown, Debbie Drechsler, Jaime and Gilberto Hernandez, Mark Newgarden, Archer Prewitt, Joe Sacco, Richard Sala (newly colored, however), Seth, and Adrian Tomine. New to us -- and therefore, we imagine, new to you as well -- are the works by Lynda Barry, Jeffrey Brown, Dan Clowes, David Collier, R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, Julie Doucet, David Heatley, Ben Katchor, Joe Matt, Richard McGuire, Gary Panter, some of the Chris Ware, and of course the aforementioned dust-jacket and minis. In addition to all this contemporary work, there are selections of classic and archival work sprinkled throughout: First and foremost among these is a 15-page spread on "the inventor of comics," Rodolphe Töpfler, and his first appearance in America, introduced by Chris Ware; an 80% reproduction of an original 1922 Mutt and Jeff daily strip by Bud Fisher that takes four pages to display (which gives you an idea of how big they drew comics back then!); and a nine page spread on George Herriman, introduced by Tim Samuelson and featuring Herriman's last Krazy Kat dailies, also reproduced from the originals. And, as if this weren't enough, there are two appreciations by Chris Ware, one of the abstract-expressionist-turned-representational-painter-with-a-personal-affinity-for-comics-iconography, Philip Guston, and the other of Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz. In addition there is a critical appreciation of comics from John Updike, and nostalgiac/elegiac remembrances of comics related experiences by Glen David Gold, Malachi Cohen, and Chip Kidd. The volume opens with a preface from Ira Glass, followed by an introduction by Chris Ware, who, when all is said and done, is clearly more than simply the editor of this work. This is a great piece, especially when you consider it's primary purpose: preaching to the unconverted, those countless, teeming millions out there in America and beyond who don't locate the foundation of their identity in comics. With this volume, McSweeney's begins a new ambitious distribution arrangement with Publisher's Group West in the USA and Penguin Books in the UK; thereby bringing their publications before a great many more potential readers. They couldn't have chosen a better volume to initiate this venture. Let's wish them luck.
Ed the Happy Clown #6	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$2.65 ($2.95 list) OUT OF STOCK!
Read more and comment...	It just keeps getting weirder and weirder in this epic representation of one of the strangest (and best!) comic book series of all time. If you're looking for the truest embodiment of the surrealist ethos in comics, look no further, you have found it.
Ed the Happy Clown #8	Chester Brown	Drawn and Quarterly	Ed the Happy Clown	$3.50 ($2.95 list)
Read more and comment...	Well, it's like they say: when it rains it pours. Here it is, the final entry in this month's Chester Brown trifecta: the concluding chapters to Drawn and Quarterly's new edition of the stunningly original (and freakishly deranged) work that launched Mr. Brown's career. Originally published twenty years ago in the pages of Yummy Fur, "Ed the Happy Clown" remains comics' greatest single surrealistic work.
Louis Riel	Chester Brown			$15.25 ($17.95 list)
Read more and comment...	- softcover edition This award-winning Canadian bestseller that brings to life the enigmatic 19th century Métis leader whose life and times offer many an intriguing echo of our own is now available in a sturdy yet attractive and affordable softcover edition.

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