Jeffrey Brown. Chronicle Books, $14.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4521-0655-7
When the first Star Wars film conquered the world in 1977, no one could have possibly foreseen it going on to become such an ubiquitous part of our cultural heritage. Now even parenthood can be viewed through the filter of the Sith lord Darth Vader.
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Jeffrey Brown, Author, Jeffrey Brown, Illustrator . Top Shelf $14.95 (227p) ISBN 978-1-891830-41-9
Brown's second autobiographical graphic novel mines similar territory to his debut, Clumsy
. It tells of Brown losing his virginity at age 24 and the relationship that precedes and follows the event. Brown meets Allisyn at a party and they begin
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Jeffrey Brown, Author . Top Shelf $12.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-891830-56-3
Brown is best known for his unflinching autobiographical comics Clumsy
and Unlikely
. Here he ventures into genre territory with a hilarious superhero parody. Brown writes these stories in a deliberately simple, tongue-in-cheek style, and after a...
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Jeffrey Brown. Chronicle, $14.95 trade paper (108p) ISBN 978-1-4521-1870-3
Brown’s popular recent works, like Darth Vader and Son, feature epically horrific villains bumping up against the quotidian concerns of family life. The author’s latest feels like more of the same—but without the preconceptions inherent in the Lucas
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Jeffrey Brown. Crown, $12.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-38835-1
Brown’s (the Jedi Academy series) episodic graphic novel about a clan of Neanderthals starts out low-key enough, as goofy Andy, his much smarter sister Lucy, and other children bicker over tool-making and food-gathering. (After debating mammoth-hunti
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Jeffrey Brown. Top Shelf, $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-60309-266-1
Brown added to his growing rep last year with the bestselling Darth Vader and Son, and his newest title presents a more down-to-earth view of fatherhood, a theme that Brown clearly has deep feelings about. The book focuses on his relationships with...
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Jeffrey Brown, Author, Pentti Otsamo, Author, Jeffrey &. Otsamo Broan, Author . Drawn & Quarterly $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-896597-81-2
The second volume in Drawn & Quarterly's ongoing young cartoonists' showcase features three stories from three very different artists. All share an interest in the mysteries possible in even the most mundane of life's events. Finnish
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Jeffrey Brown, Author . Touchstone $14 (342p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4946-8
A comics memoirist in the slightly worn-out quotidian mode pioneered by Harvey Pekar, Brown has already produced a series of books about his relationships with women. This one's a bit more scattered—it's a collection of short pieces...
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Jeffrey Brown, Author . Touchstone $15 (308p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4947-5
Previous books by Brown (Clumsy
; Little Things
) have explored his romantic life and eventual progression to a steady relationship and fatherhood in his trademarked slice-of-life style, leavened with awkward, self-deprecating humor. His latest...
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Jeffrey Brown, Author, Jeffrey Brown, Illustrator . Top Shelf $15 (352p) ISBN 978-1-60309-058-2
Thoroughly engaging and loaded with charm to burn, this latest work from Brown (Clumsy
) is a perfect example of how to do autobiographical comics right. The appealingly simple “cartoony” art serves to draw the reader into Brown's...
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Jeffrey Brown, Author, Jeffrey Brown, Illustrator . Top Shelf $12 (224p) ISBN 978-1-891830-71-6
Apparently, one of the side effects of dating Brown is that he draws a comics memoir about you afterwards. This work, originally published in a limited edition, is Brown's follow-up to his previous dating books Clumsy
and Unlikely
, and...
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Jeffrey Brown. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-55659-480-9
Brown, a correspondent on PBS NewsHour, records the sentiments of a life spent in TV news in his debut collection. Sardonic, excited, appalled, or simply exhausted, the spare, honest poems at first tell “the story we know to be true.” Brown reported
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Edited by Jennifer L. Holm, Matt Holm, and Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Random, $7.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-553-51264-9
Comics creators including Cece Bell, Jeffrey Brown, Nathan Hale, and Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon let loose on lunchtime in this second Comics Squad outing. In Bell’s standout story, Ellie’s reliance on her same-every-day lunch collides with her
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Jeffrey Brown. Crown, $17.99 (40) ISBN 978-0-553-53451-1
In this anecdotal tale, Brown (the Lucy & Andy Neanderthal series) steps out of the Stone Age into the flamboyant realm of a boy’s imagination. Fred grumps that everything his dry, no-nonsense teacher says is “robot talk,” and the boy’s boredom...
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Jeffrey Brown. Crown, $13.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-5535-3435-1
In 2216, 10 years after aliens first made contact, international students study as cadets at the Earth School for Space Missing Preparation (ESSMP). When humankind is ready to “[become] part of the galactic civilization,” Tobey—the face of a goblin-l
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