Chester Brown's autobiographical works such as
I Never Liked You (1.3 MB PDF) placed #38 on
The Comics Journal's
list of the 100 Best Comics of the 20th Century. In his new graphic novel,
Paying For It, he "calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--
prostitution".
posted by Trurl
on May 16, 2011 -
46 comments
"There was a night, maybe sometime around 1993, when
I [Joe Matt] was working on an issue of my comic book,
Peepshow and I was using some xeroxes of
Peanuts strips from the collection, “You Can Do It, Charlie Brown” as blotter-paper. Anyway, there came a moment when I was using white-out and to remove some excess white-out from my brush, I wiped it on the blotter paper beneath my hand. And that’s how I came to idly white-out the words balloons on a few
Peanuts strips. Once I saw the balloons whited-out and forgot what they originally said, I began filling them with the first
perverted thing my brain thought they might say. It was so much fun and I was so happy with the results that I brought the pages out to show to
Seth and
Chester [Brown] the next day. Seth was eager to try it and immediately suggested we each go home and produce a set number of pages for a mini comic.
Less than a week later, Chester brought out his original take on the concept and put Seth and I to shame."
[more inside]
posted by Alvy Ampersand
on Jan 20, 2011 -
56 comments
