The Playboy: A Comic-Strip Memoir - Softcover

Chester Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770461183 ISBN 13: 9781770461185

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2013

Synopsis

"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. "

About this title

Product Description:

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-05-28 Pages: 176 Language: English Publisher: Pan Macmillan US A memoir of shocking honesty by the graphic novelist behind 2011s acclaimed comic Paying for ItAs with every Chester Brown book. The Playboy-originally published in 1992 -was ahead of its time. illustrating the fearlessness and prescience of the iconoclastic cartoonist. A memoir about Browns adolescent sexuality and shame. The Playboy chronicles his teenage obsession with the magazine of the same name. but its also a work that explores the physical form of comics to their fullest storytelling capacity. In it. a fifteen-year-old Chester is visited by a time-traveling adult Chester. and the latter narrates the formers compulsion to purchase each issue of Playboy as it appears on newsstands. Even more fascinating than his obsession with the magazine is his need to keep his habit secret and ...

Review:

"Brown has the ability to open a door that leads directly back into the very texture of childhood with all its darkness." --The Vancouver Sun

"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 this edition

• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1770461183
• ISBN 13: 9781770461185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176