Chester Brown: 20 books

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 Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995 is a collection of short-story works by the celebrated and bestselling Louis Riel cartoonist Chester Brown. From his early experimental comedic surrealism to his later autobiographical and essay strips, we see not a major talent in development but a fully realized...

In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the muchlauded Paying for It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking Ed the Happy Clown, revealing a macabre universe of parallel dimensions. Thanks...

Chester Brown is commonly regarded as one of the leading figures of the alternative comics "renaissance" that began in the 1980's. As a cartoonist, he has produced three regular comic book series, Yummy Fur, Underwater, and Louis Riel, and his work has been collected in four books: Ed The Happy Clown,...

Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. As the cartoonist of the autobiographical The Playboy and the biography Louis Riel, Paying For It is a natural progression for Brown as it combines the personal and sexual aspects of his autobiographical work with the...

Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis...

The complex puzzle of Chester Burton Brown's history of Mars is one piece closer to completion with this glimpse into Earth's official colonization attempt and the rebuff they receive at the hands of Earth's unofficial colonists. Earth's brand-sponsored culture and its penchant for show begs for exploitation,...

Across history and continents Lallo Long walks, doing laps around the Earth since prehistory. He understands neither why he is immortal nor what he should do with his power, and 'The Long Man' is the story of his quest to understand his fellow immortals and, ultimately, to discover his part in their...

When an allied soldier crash-lands deep in the jungle behind enemy lines, he becomes the guest of a troupe of lost chimpanzees inexplicably capable of sign language. Mike Zhang Cutherberson of NIGHT FLIGHT MIKE returns in this wilderness thriller as a leader of trained apes determined to escape the...

Captain Ting of Chester Burton Brown's seminal novel SIMON OF SPACE returns as the young, blustering skipper of an interstellar skiff called The Dollar. His mission is to escort an escaped concubine out of the system, but the concubine has a mission of her own: one that will alter the economies of worlds and the balance of power in the galaxy.

Dark humor and a unique spin on classic tropes makes the simple story of a man without memories recovering his identity into a twist-filled, idea-rich adventure through a complex galactic culture. Simon's quest to discover his hidden past uncovers ever larger secrets, including the resting place...

Chester Burton Brown's famous dark wit and striking imagery come to the forefront again in this gripping tale of two young lovers who are neither of them what they seem. IDIOT'S MASK is a layered story in which the voice of the narrator itself is a clue to the final mystery penetrated by the book's...

Mike is a scholastic eleven-year-old who decides to force his own coming of age by sneaking into a downtown night-club while his parents stay at a nearby hotel. Mike is immediately drawn into a mad parade of music, romance and crime as the club he's penetrated turns out to be the staging ground...

A grim but all too believable near future is painted in striking visual detail by science-fiction veteran Chester Burton Brown in this harrowing story of poverty and power during a global energy-crisis. We follow Luc Drapeau on his descent into the underworld of New York in a desperate bid to secure...