Tag: Chester Brown
RIP Joe Matt
Cartoonist Joe Matt, a pioneer of autobiographical comics, passed away suddenly at age 60.
Sook-Yin Lee is adapting Chester Brown’s 2011 graphic novel PAYING FOR IT for a...
Chester's Brown's graphic novel Paying For It is being made into a movie by his ex, acclaimed filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee
Interview: ‘This Is Serious’ Curator Alana Traficante talks Canadian comics’ place in art museums
47 Canadian indie cartoonists' work is on display until January.
Chester Brown vs the Bible: The final chapter
Regular Beat readers know I'm OBSESSED with Chester Brown's Mary Wept Over The Feet of Jesus. For many years, I've generally admired Brown's work, from the gonzo Ed the Happy Clown to the devastating...
Chester Brown is hitting the road with his Biblical prostitution treatise (NSFW)
There's a new Chester Brown book coming out, and it's a doozy. It's called Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, and it examines stories of bibles heroines via their relationship with prostitution. This...
Chester Brown is also going biblical with a book on Bible prostitutes
While Gilbert Hernandez is new to the bible comics business, Canadian iconoclast Chester Brown has long been fascinated by scripture; long ago he adapted the gospels of Mark and Matthew in the back of...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/17/14: People said things
§ This appreciation of Cliff Sterrett's great Polly and Her Pals says many of the right things:
More than 50 years later, it’s difficult to explain why Cliff Sterrett’s magnificent creation never quite took flight....
You won’t believe this Chester Brown Louis Riel cartoon
A tiny snippt of a lost project that would have animated Chester Brown's great graphic novel of Canadian history.