{"product_id":"chester-brown-9781496858351","title":"Chester Brown","description":"Best known for his alternative comics, Chester Brown (b. 1960) is one of the most acclaimed and influential cartoonists of the last half century. This first biography provides a critical account of Brown's life and career, highlighting his role in the evolving comics landscape and tracing his journey from self-publishing minicomics on the streets of Toronto to creating award-winning graphic novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Characterized by often minimalist art and unconventional themes, comics such as \u003ci\u003eYummy Fur\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEd the Happy Clown\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Never Liked You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLouis Riel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePaying for It\u003c\/i\u003e have consistently pushed boundaries and confronted taboos. \u003ci\u003eChester Brown\u003c\/i\u003e offers unique insight into Brown's creative process as well the scope of his work and its larger cultural contexts. Organized chronologically, the book provides a full account of the artist's career, beginning with his failed attempts to break into superhero comics and ending with discussions of his most recent work, in which he blends autobiography with political views on sex work and religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book also examines Brown's extensive authorial revisions and considers how he has deployed both these and an increasingly voluminous amount of paratextual material in the service of creating a highly distinctive authorial persona that in turn cannot help but influence how we encounter and read his work. \u003ci\u003eChester Brown\u003c\/i\u003e pulls back the curtain on this pioneering artist and emphasizes the inseparability of Brown's art and life, including the myriad ways they have informed each other across the last four decades of comics history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederik Byrn K?hlert\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in English and film at Edinburgh Napier University. In addition to several articles and book chapters about comics, he is author of \u003ci\u003eSerial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eeditor of two companion book series for Routledge on gender, sexuality, and comics. Alongside his work on comics and related visual media, he has authored and edited two books on the literary and cultural history of Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51213153042706,"sku":"9781496858351","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c12c286f-9e9e-4e63-bf28-119124c12bb5.jpg?v=1745360801","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chester-brown-9781496858351","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}