Tag: Box Brown

A fascinating, multifacted gem of a comic that is up for the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work. The book's creator, Box Brown, is up for the Best Writer/Artist award.

by Stephen Harrick   Box Brown's modus operandi as a cartoonist is to scrutinize aspects of popular culture and unearth their messy and unsanitized realities without judgment. His takes on Andre the Giant and the making...

  Denver-based comics publisher Kilgore Books & Comics has announced its fall publishing lineup via a crowdfunding campaign. The crowdfunding campaign aims to help publish those 4 new comics and also serves as a pre-ordering...

Box Brown (Retrofit Comics, Andre" is serializing a new unnamed comic that deals with fantasy/superhero/video game elements as an unnamed hero deals with the tedium of grinding, and argues with another explorer over the life of crystal thieving. It's a few pages in, but another solid entry in the "magical kingdom" genre of indie comics. Jump on board!

This weekend it's Comic Arts Brooklyn in Williamsburg and here's a look at the books that will be debuting. Thanks to all the contributing publishers and cartoonists for supplying the info and lightening our wallets. Because there were so many new and exciting books I'm splitting this into two parts. Look for part two tomorrow!

If there's such a thing as "a big micro press" Retrofit Comics might just apply. With a monthly schedule of small, attractive books by the premiere cartoonists working, they've put out some of the most notable comics of the past few years, including Wicked Chicken Queen by Sam Alden, Tom Hart's Daddy Lightning, and Flocks by L. Nichols. And now you can subscribe to the whole 2015 lineup, which is a stunner, including works by Olivier Schwawen, Matt Madden, Kate Leth and more.

While we were enjoying Comic Arts Brooklyn this year, my partner Marguerite Van Cook and I took a break from the excitement of promoting our new Fantagraphics Book The Late Child and Other Animals...

I've been remiss in announcing localish events but there's a good one tonight at Bergen Street Comics where Box Brown will read from Andre The Giant: Life and Legend. Deets: Friday, May 16th 8:00PM Comics Reading,...

Standing at seven and a half feet tall, pro-wrestler Andre The Giant more than earned his title over a three-decade career which saw him wrestle in America and Japan and memorably then turn his...

Box Brown's Andre the Giant: Life and Legend GN bio promises to be a sympathetic look at one of the greatest sports entertainment personalities of all times, and the cover has just been released...

  Here for your perusal, I examine a pile of worthy comics and graphic novelish books that I have found in my travels to Brooklyn; from a few book release parties at Bergen Street Comics,...

Box Brown ("Belen!", "Love is a Peculiar Kind of Thing") is a fixture at indie comics shows, tirelessly producing his own bold and appealing short comics on a regular basis, but also, in 2011,...