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The Playboy
Chester Brown
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Description for The Playboy
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, Black and White. BIC Classification: FXL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 182.
A memoir of shocking honesty by the graphic novelist behind 2011's acclaimed comic Paying for It As with every Chester Brown book, The Playboy--originally published in 1992--was ahead of its time, illustrating the fearlessness and prescience of the iconoclastic cartoonist. A memoir about Brown's adolescent sexuality and shame, The Playboy chronicles his teenage obsession with the magazine of the same name, but it's also a work that explores the physical form of comics to their fullest storytelling capacity. In it, a fifteen-year-old Chester is visited by a time-traveling adult Chester, and the latter narrates the former's compulsion ... Read more
A memoir of shocking honesty by the graphic novelist behind 2011's acclaimed comic Paying for It As with every Chester Brown book, The Playboy--originally published in 1992--was ahead of its time, illustrating the fearlessness and prescience of the iconoclastic cartoonist. A memoir about Brown's adolescent sexuality and shame, The Playboy chronicles his teenage obsession with the magazine of the same name, but it's also a work that explores the physical form of comics to their fullest storytelling capacity. In it, a fifteen-year-old Chester is visited by a time-traveling adult Chester, and the latter narrates the former's compulsion ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly Canada
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781770461185
SKU
V9781770461185
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Ref
99-20
About Chester Brown
Chester Brown lives in Toronto, where he ran for parliament in the general election as a member of the Libertarian Party of Canada. He is the author of I Never Liked You, Louis Riel, and Paying for It.
Reviews for The Playboy
Brown has the ability to open a door that leads directly back into the very texture of childhood with all its darkness.
The Vancouver Sun Brown has painted these embarrassing scenes with cathartic candor but also with a keen eye for detail and an understated tone . . . A landmark look at an artist's ... Read more
The Vancouver Sun Brown has painted these embarrassing scenes with cathartic candor but also with a keen eye for detail and an understated tone . . . A landmark look at an artist's ... Read more