Mr. Brown Will Come to Town

Comic-book creator Jeffrey Brown is a featured guest at this year's Staple! The Independent Media Expo

"...however; we're going to focus our energies on Jeffrey Brown...."

March 6, 2009 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Andy Brown Wins Scoot Inn Beer-Bobbing Contest

"...keep pace with the relentless bobbing skills of Andy Brown who left no doubt that he was king of..."

July 8, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

Eating My Way Through Two and a Half Decades of Comics

The Drawn and Quarterly 25th Anniversary Anthology

"...breakfast that my mind flashes on an image of Chester Brown masturbating...."

June 5, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

On Second Thought, Never Mind that Whole Virgin/Whore Dichotomy

Chester Brown's Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus? Oh holy shit.

"...If the cartoonist Chester Brown had lived a few hundred years ago, they’d..."

April 20, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Journey of a Gun

Gun traveled circuitous path to Kevin Brown's hands

"...31, just two days before he died, Kevin Alexander Brown got a phone call from his friend Wesley Smith...."

Oct. 5, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

New in Graphic Novels

These are two books so ripe with sex, it's as if the subject has fermented in the pages

"...McKean Fantagraphics Books, 282 pp., $35 Paying for Itby Chester Brown Drawn & Quarterly, 288 pp., $24.95..."

June 10, 2011 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Unsuspended Judgments

Battle lines drawn over the police shooting of Kevin Brown

"...outside the Austin NAACP offices, the family of Kevin Brown, shot and killed by Austin Police Department Sgt. Michael..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Acevedo Fires Olsen

Following investigation and hearing, APD Chief Art Acevedo decides to terminate Sgt. Michael Olsen

"...termination) for the fatal June shooting of 25-year-old Kevin Brown. Following a disciplinary review board meeting at Austin Police..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Ed the Happy Clown? Ed the Happy Clown!

Chester Brown's early magnum opus is hardcovered for you

"...Happy Clown, the surreal narrative that originally appeared in Chester Brown's periodical Yummy Fur, went through a couple of..."

Aug. 7, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...books – Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown and Company), which was the victim of a hand-me-down..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

East Side Dandies Squirrel Nut Zippers Graham Reynolds WHAT?

Not to mention the Whiskey Sage mixologists

"...aside some simeoleons for wooing? Surely it's not only Chester Brown who has a "love-budget," right?) Here's a chance..."

Oct. 18, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chris Ware and Seth at the Texas Book Festival

Two titans of sequential art, gabbing craftwise in Austin on Saturday

"...Library, of Jimmy Corrigan and Building Stories and Rusty Brown, of anything that requires stunning draftsmanship, nonpareil design skills,..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post

SXSW and Amazon Announce Virtual Festival Lineup

Feature and shorts from 2020 fest going online for 10 days

"...screenwriter: Nicole Bazuin Producer: Lisa Baylin Cast: Andrea Werhun, Chester Brown, Michael Cuddy Former escort Andrea Werhun shares the..."

April 21, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Book This Gift, You Graphic Self-Chronicler

Because your life’s narrative structure deserves some good paneling

"...an intense work like Debbie Drechsler’s Daddy’s Girl. Like Chester Brown’s I Never Liked You. Like Alison Bechdel’s Fun..."

Dec. 6, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVDanger: Animation Nations

Napping Princess leads this week's home releases

"...a mainstay of independent comics – less autobiographical than Chester Brown, yet still often a character through alter-egos. While..."

Jan. 29, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hey, Grownups! Graphic Novels!

Three new releases from the good folks at Drawn & Quarterly

"...almost required, we’d suggest – Seth’s longtime cartooning pals Chester Brown and Joe Matt)...."

Dec. 6, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

KRAKATHOOOOM!! Free Comic Book Day Is Soon Upon Us Once Again!

Annual giveaway of popular sequential art stirs area interest, desire

"...and exquisitely produced things like Daniel Clowes’ Patience and Chester Brown’s Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus and..."

May 3, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tony Scalzo

"...Just as its Chester Brown-style cover portrait and Peter O'Toole-inspired title insinuate, Fastball's..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Review by Greg Beets

Are You Headed Straight For Failure, Friend?

Ah, it looks like Karl Stevens got there first.

"...rendered with the sort of minimalism purveyed by, say, Chester Brown or John Porcellino? These are comics being created..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Whore Stories?

Tyler Stoddard Smith brings them to BookPeople this Wednesday

"...this ramble back to the subset of prostitution – Chester Brown's Paying For It. The focus is definitely on..."

July 16, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Three for You, and They're Coming Up Fast!

Click to know the current opps you know ain't gonna last

"...situation of sex-workers or haven't gotten around to reading Chester Brown's personal and philosophical Paying For It from Drawn..."

July 12, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Drawing Interest

Books with graphic value

"...Tomine, his writing the equivalent of Chris Ware + Chester Brown x Lynda Barry. That's a bit facile, sure,..."

July 11, 2008 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

First, Free Comic Book Day, and Then – Ka-Baam!!

Comic books and comedy improv go hand in hand, sometimes with repulsor rays

"...Tomine's Optic Nerve and the holy navel-gazing trinity of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Seth; Spiegelman's Maus won a..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'My Life in a Jugular Vein' and 'My Life In a Jugular Vein: Three More Years of Snakepit Comics'

New work from Joe Matt and Ben Snakepit

"...outside world (aside from fellow comic artists Seth and Chester Brown), is racked with anxiety over his eventual death,..."

July 27, 2007 Books Review by Mark Fagan

Me, Ange, and the Interlocking Shadows of Trees

Why do I love Naruto? Because I love my daughter.

"...its more realistic concerns – the autobiographical explorations of Chester Brown and Julie Doucet, the complex fictional constructions of..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Truth Serum

Pity the poor costumed heroes of our childhood

"...The setting's a place called Manchester, a modern burg that Adams has rendered in fine..."

May 12, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gift Guide

"...gotten into the act, most recently and notably with Chester Brown's serialized retelling of the Gospel According to Matthew...."

Dec. 23, 2005 Books Feature by Ken Lieck

Has Daniel Clowes Really Grown Up?

"...tends to earn Clowes' peers like Joe Matt and Chester Brown steady streams of hisses and boos from the..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Ken Lieck

APD Shooting: What went down

Officer shoots and kills 25-year-old after scuffle early Sunday in East Austin, Department of Justice to investigate APD's use-of-force tactics

"...Department and for the family of 25-year-old Kevin Alexander Brown, who was shot and killed by Sgt. Michael Olsen..."

June 8, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...connection with the June 3 shooting death of Kevin Brown in East Austin. The grand jury returned the no-bill..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature

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