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Chester Brown 
Conversations

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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 nonmainstream 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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About the author

Eric Hoffman is author of Oppen: A Narrative. He coedited (with Jason Sacks and Dominick Grace) Steve Gerber: Conversations and Jim Shooter: Conversations; (with Dominick Grace) Dave Sim: Conversations; Chester Brown: Conversations; Seth: Conversations; and The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels; and (with Nina Goss) Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also author of several books of poetry, most recently This Thin Mean: New Selected Poems; Presence of Life; and Losses of Life.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 284 ● ISBN 9781628467840 ● File size 5.3 MB ● Editor Dominick Grace & Eric Hoffman ● Publisher University Press of Mississippi ● City Jackson ● Country US ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5378795 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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