Chester Brown
Chester Brown (born May 16, 1960 in Montreal ) is a Canadian comic artist.
Life
Brown grew up in Chateauguay , a suburb of Montreal . His comic book career began in Toronto in 1983 . For the first few years he published his works there (mainly mini-comix and his own magazine Yummy Fur ) himself. From 1986 he was published by Vortex Comics, where his first graphic novel , Ed the Happy Clown, was published in 1989 . In 1991 Brown moved to Drawn and Quarterly (D&Q), where he published heavily autobiographical stories and a free interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew in Yummy Fur (until 1994), followed by his experimental (and unfinished) series Underwater (1994-97), which from an infant's point of view addressed the slow understanding of the environment and language. D & Q also published The Playboy (1992, the same year in German as The Playboy Stories at Jochen Enterprises ), I Never Liked You (1994, the same year as Fuck at Jochen), The Little Man Short Strips 1980-1995 (1998 ) and a new edition of Ed the Happy Clown (2000).
This was followed by a biography of the legendary Canadian politician and mystic Louis Riel (Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography) . This comic was published from 1999 to 2003 as a series, which then appeared in a revised version in 2003 in a 272-page anthology and was nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2004 ("Best Graphic Album - Reprint" and "Best Publication Design"). and was named one of the ten best comics of 2003 by Time .
His most recent work is Paying for It , which describes his experience of sex work from the perspective of a customer. When I pay for sex - records of a client , this comic was published in 2012 with a longer section with explanations in German.
Publications
Original editions
- Ed the Happy Clown. Vortex Comics, Toronto Canada 1989, ISBN 0-921451-04-0 .
- The Playboy. Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, Canada 1992, ISBN 0-9696701-1-7 .
- I never liked you. Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, Canada 1994, ISBN 0-9696701-5-X .
- The Little Man. Short Strips 1980-1995. Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, Canada 1998, ISBN 1-896597-13-0 .
- Louis Riel. A comic strip biography. Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, Canada 2004, ISBN 1-894937-89-9 .
- Paying for it. A comic strip memoir about Being a John. Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-77046-048-5 .
- Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus. Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, Canada 2016, ISBN 978-1-77046-234-2 .
German editions
- The Playboy Stories. Jochen Enterprises, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-9803050-0-7 .
- Ed the Happy Clown. Jochen Enterprises, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-9803050-2-3 .
- Fuck. Jochen Enterprises, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-9803050-9-0 (Contains the stories The Little Man and I Never Liked You ).
- I'm paying for sex - a suitor's records. Walde and Graf, 2012, ISBN 978-3-03774-045-3
- Louis Riel - A comic biography. Bahoe Books, 2020, ISBN 978-3-903290-38-9 .
Exhibitions
- 2013/2014: Chester Brown and Louis Riel. , Art Gallery of Ontario , Toronto
Web links
- Literature by and about Chester Brown in the catalog of the German National Library
- Chester Brown at Drawn and Quarterly
- Chester Brown at Bahoe Books
- Chester Brown at Reprodukt
- Andrew D. Arnold: Keeping It "Riel" , interview with Chester Brown on TIME.com , April 12, 2004.
- Brad Mackay: Special Ed , ( March 17, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ) Article on CBC.ca , July 18, 2005
- Matthew McKinnon: Inductee: Chester Brown. February 22, 2005.
- Interview ( memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on twohandedman.com, April 22, 2002
Individual evidence
- ↑ comicbookresources.com
- ↑ Top 10 Everything 2003
- ↑ ago.net Text from the museum on the exhibition, accessed on April 18, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Chester |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |