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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Chester Brown
- Chester William David Brown (born 16 May 1960) is a Canadian cartoonist. Brown has gone through several stylistic and thematic periods.
- He gained notice in alternative comics circles in the 1980s for the surreal, scatological Ed the Happy Clown serial.
- After bringing Ed to an abrupt end, he delved into confessional autobiographical comics in the early 1990s and was strongly associated with fellow Toronto-based cartoonists Seth and Joe Matt, and the contemporary autobiographical comics trend.
- Two graphic novels came from this period: The Playboy (1992) and I Never Liked You (1994).
- Surprise mainstream success in the 2000s came with Louis Riel (2003), a historical-biographical graphic novel about rebel Métis leader Louis Riel.
- Paying for It (2011) drew controversy as a polemic in support of decriminalizing prostitution, a theme he explored further with Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus (2016), a book of adaptations of stories from the Bible that Brown believes promote pro-prostitution attitudes among early Christians. Brown draws from a range of influences, including monster and superhero comic books, underground comix, and comic strips such as Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie.
- His later works employ a sparse drawing style and flat dialogue.
- Rather than the traditional method of drawing complete pages, Brown draws individual panels without regard for page composition and assembles them into pages after completion.
- Since the late 1990s Brown has had a penchant for providing detailed annotations for his work and extensively altering and reformatting older works. Brown at first self-published his work as a minicomic called Yummy Fur beginning in 1983; Toronto publisher Vortex Comics began publishing the series as a comic book in 1986.
- The content tended towards controversial themes: a distributor and a printer dropped it in the late 1980s, and it has been held up at the Canada–United States border.
- Since 1991, Brown has associated himself with Montreal publisher Drawn and Quarterly.
- Following Louis Riel Brown ceased serializing his work to publish graphic novels directly.
- He has received grants from the Canada Council to complete Louis Riel and Paying for It.
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