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Ed the Happy Clown - A Serialized Reprinting of Chester Brown's First Graphic Novel
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Chester Brown
127 books268 followersChester Brown is a Canadian cartoonist.
Brown was born in Montreal in 1960 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chateauguay.
At 19, Brown moved to Toronto, where he found a day job while practicing cartooning in his free time. In 1983, he began to self-publish his work in photocopied mini-comics under the title Yummy Fur. These pamphlets attracted some attention in the industry, and in 1986 the Toronto-based comic book publisher Vortex Comics approached Brown. The first Vortex issue of Yummy Fur sold well, so Brown quit his day job to become a full-time cartoonist.
In the pages of Yummy Fur, Brown serialized the story Ed the Happy Clown, which was published as a graphic novel in 1989 and went on to win several awards.
Brown's following book The Playboy (1992) was the first graphic novel released by the Canadian comic publisher Drawn & Quarterly. It was followed by I Never Liked You (1994) and the collection of shorts tories The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995 (1998). From 1998 to 2003 Brown worked on Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography. His latest books are Paying for It (2011) and Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus (2016), both tackling at some level the theme of decriminalisation of prostitution.
Brown was born in Montreal in 1960 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chateauguay.
At 19, Brown moved to Toronto, where he found a day job while practicing cartooning in his free time. In 1983, he began to self-publish his work in photocopied mini-comics under the title Yummy Fur. These pamphlets attracted some attention in the industry, and in 1986 the Toronto-based comic book publisher Vortex Comics approached Brown. The first Vortex issue of Yummy Fur sold well, so Brown quit his day job to become a full-time cartoonist.
In the pages of Yummy Fur, Brown serialized the story Ed the Happy Clown, which was published as a graphic novel in 1989 and went on to win several awards.
Brown's following book The Playboy (1992) was the first graphic novel released by the Canadian comic publisher Drawn & Quarterly. It was followed by I Never Liked You (1994) and the collection of shorts tories The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995 (1998). From 1998 to 2003 Brown worked on Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography. His latest books are Paying for It (2011) and Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus (2016), both tackling at some level the theme of decriminalisation of prostitution.
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March 17, 2014
No sabía que Chester Brown tenía un registro tan amplio. Y qué bien dibuja. Quiero rescatar este texto que cita casi al final del primer número de Ed The Happy Clown:
"A fines de 1981, llevaba en Toronto algo más de dos años y sólo había completado tres tiras cortas, las cuales completaban escasas nueve páginas. Había un par de razones para esto. Me costaba mucho motivarme para trabajar en mi tiempo libre. Aparte, quería que cada tira fuera brillante, por lo que pasé bastante tiempo escribiendo guiones y descartándolos cuando me daba cuenta que eran menos que eso. Pero cuando miré las tres tiras completas me di cuenta de que, a pesar de que estaban lejos de ser brillantes, había una satisfacción en el tener un trabajo acabado en mis manos y en ver cómo se desarrollaban mis habilidades para el dibujo. Así que decidí preocuparme menos por ser brillante y mucho más en solo crear".
"A fines de 1981, llevaba en Toronto algo más de dos años y sólo había completado tres tiras cortas, las cuales completaban escasas nueve páginas. Había un par de razones para esto. Me costaba mucho motivarme para trabajar en mi tiempo libre. Aparte, quería que cada tira fuera brillante, por lo que pasé bastante tiempo escribiendo guiones y descartándolos cuando me daba cuenta que eran menos que eso. Pero cuando miré las tres tiras completas me di cuenta de que, a pesar de que estaban lejos de ser brillantes, había una satisfacción en el tener un trabajo acabado en mis manos y en ver cómo se desarrollaban mis habilidades para el dibujo. Así que decidí preocuparme menos por ser brillante y mucho más en solo crear".
August 24, 2014
Nine-issue reissue from Drawn & Quarterly.
November 26, 2014
As surreal, absurd and wonderful as I remember.
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