TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Chester AU - Hoffman,Eric AU - Grace,Dominick ED - Project Muse. TI - Chester Brown: Conversations T2 - Conversations with comic artists SN - 9781621039693 AV - PN6733.B76 Z46 2013 U1 - 741.5/971 PY - 2013/// CY - Jackson PB - University Press of Mississippi KW - Brown, Chester, KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Canadian KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels KW - Cartoonists KW - Canada KW - Interviews KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes index; Libro Electrónico N2 - "The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in subject matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new methods of publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities. Among those artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown quickly developed a cult following due to the undeniable quality and originality of his Yummy Fur. Chester Brown: Conversations collects interviews covering all facets of the cartoonist's long career and includes several pieces from now-defunct periodicals and fanzines. Brown was among a new generation of artists whose work dealt with decidedly nonmainstream subjects. By the 1980s comics were not just for kids anymore and subsequent censorious attacks by parents concerned about the more salacious material being published by the major publishers--subjects that routinely included adult language, realistic violence, drug use, and sexual content--began to roil the industry. Yummy Fur came of age during this storm and its often-offensive content, including dismembered, talking penises, led to controversy and censorship. With Brown's highly unconventional adaptations of the Gospels, and such comics memoirs as The Playboy and I Never Liked You, Brown gradually moved away from the surrealistic, humor-oriented strips toward autobiographical material far more restrained and elegiac in tone than his earlier strips. This work was followed by Louis Riel, Brown's critically acclaimed comic book biography of the controversial nineteeth-century Canadian revolutionary, and Paying for It, his best-selling memoir on the life of a john"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/26715/ UR - http://www.udb.edu.sv/biblioteca/inicio_recursos_electronicos.php ER -