LEADER 04134nam 2200565 450 001 9910787503603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61703-869-5 010 $a1-62103-969-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000428184 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000999931 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11628828 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000999931 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10942886 035 $a(PQKB)10966314 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181919 035 $a(OCoLC)841518502 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28596 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181919 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10769552 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL838053 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000428184 100 $a20130425d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChester Brown $econversations /$fedited by Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman ; annotated by Chester Brown 210 1$aJackson :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (284 pages) 225 0$aConversations with comic artists 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-61703-868-7 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Chester Brown / Martin Hand -- The Chester Brown Interview / Scott Grammel -- Chester Brown / Jay Torres -- Shades of Brown / Steve Solomos -- Two-Handed Man Interviews Cartoonist Chester Brown / Darrell Epp -- Chester Brown Restrains Himself / Heidi MacDonald -- On the Real: An Interview with Chester Brown / Matthias Wivel -- Chester Brown / Nicolas Verstappen -- Chester Brown: Louis Riel's Comic-Strip Biographer / Nancy Tousley -- Chester Brown / Dave Sim -- Chester Brown / Robin McConnell -- Chester Brown on Prostitution, Romantic Love, and Being a John / Nicholas Kohler -- Laying It Bare: An Interview with Chester Brown / Ian McGillis -- Interview: Chester Brown / Noel Murray -- The Pickup Artist: An Interview with Chester Brown / Dave Gilson -- Chester Brown on Sex, Love, and Paying for It / Paul McLaughlin. 330 $a"The early 1980's saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in subject matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new methods of publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities. Among those artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown quickly developed a cult following due to the undeniable quality and originality of his Yummy Fur. Chester Brown: Conversations collects interviews covering all facets of the cartoonist's long career and includes several pieces from now-defunct periodicals and fanzines. Brown was among a new generation of artists whose work dealt with decidedly nonmainstream subjects. By the 1980's comics were not just for kids anymore and subsequent censorious attacks by parents concerned about the more salacious material being published by the major publishers--subjects that routinely included adult language, realistic violence, drug use, and sexual content--began to roil the industry. Yummy Fur came of age during this storm and its often-offensive content, including dismembered, talking penises, led to controversy and censorship. With Brown's highly unconventional adaptations of the Gospels, and such comics memoirs as The Playboy and I Never Liked You, Brown gradually moved away from the surrealistic, humor-oriented strips toward autobiographical material far more restrained and elegiac in tone than his earlier strips. This work was followed by Louis Riel, Brown's critically acclaimed comic book biography of the controversial nineteenth-century Canadian revolutionary, and Paying for It, his best-selling memoir on the life of a john"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCartoonists$zCanada$vInterviews 615 0$aCartoonists 676 $a741.5/971 686 $aLIT017000$aLCO006000$aBIO001000$2bisacsh 700 $aBrown$b Chester$f1960-$01529004 701 $aGrace$b Dominick$f1976-$01529005 701 $aHoffman$b Eric$f1963-$01529006 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787503603321 996 $aChester Brown$93773021 997 $aUNINA