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The playboy

Pages
231
Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

Chester Brown's graphic memoir delves into his lifelong relationship with Playboy magazine and pornography. Through his distinctive art style, Brown reflects on his adolescence, sexuality, and the complex role these magazines played in shaping his understanding of desire and masculinity. This introspective work offers a candid look into a cartoonist's personal history.

About the author

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Chester Brown

Brown was born in Montreal, Canada, on May 16, 1960, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chateauguay. At nineteen he moved to Toronto where, in 1983, he began self-publishing his work in photocopied mini-comics under the title Yummy Fur. Those pamphlets attracted the attention of comic book publishers and, in 1986, he began began writing and drawing for the Toronto based Vortex Comics. The first Vortex issue of Yummy Fur sold well and Brown quit his day job and began working full time as a carto...

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