The Playboy: A Comic Book - Softcover

Brown, Chester

3.73

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9780969670117: The Playboy: A Comic Book

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0969670117 ISBN 13: 9780969670117

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2006

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"As with every Chester Brown book, when published in 1992 The Playboy was ahead of its time, illustrating the fearlessness and prescience of the iconoclastic cartoonist. The Playboy is a memoir about Brown s adolescence, sexuality, and shame that chronicles his teenage obsession with the magazine of the same name. Exploring the physical form of comics to its fullest storytelling capacity, a fifteen year-old Chester is visited by a time-traveling adult Chester, and the latter narrates the former s compulsion to purchase each issue of Playboy as it appears on newsstands. Even more fascinating than his obsession with the magazine is Brown s need to keep this habit secret, and the great lengths to which he goes to avoid detection by, at first, his family, and then, later, by girlfriends. The comics that became The Playboy first appeared in issues of Brown s controversial, ground-breaking comic Yummy Fur over twenty years ago, and yet the frankness of the work makes it seem avant-garde even now. As in every work by this master cartoonist, The Playboy uses no extra words, no extra panels, no extra lines, conveying environment and emotion through perfectly chosen moments. Fans of his acclaimed and controversial memoir Paying For It are sure to be drawn in by this early autobiographical portrait of blazing honesty. The expanded reissue includes all-new appendices and notes from the author. "

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Brown has the ability to open a door that leads directly back into the very texture of childhood with all its darkness...an astonishing narrative. "The Vancouver Sun" His best work yet. Brown has painted these embarrassing scenes with cathartic candor but also with a keen eye for detail and an understated tone...a landmark look at an artist's growth. "The Comics Journal"" "Brown has the ability to open a door that leads directly back into the very texture of childhood with all its darkness...an astonishing narrative."-"The Vancouver Sun" "His best work yet. Brown has painted these embarrassing scenes with cathartic candor but also with a keen eye for detail and an understated tone...a landmark look at an artist's growth." --"The Comics Journal "

About the Author:

Chester Brown lives in Toronto, where he ran for parliament in the general election as a member of the Libertarian Party of Canada. He is the author of I Never Liked You, Louis Riel, and Paying for It.

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