Jeffrey Brown
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| Jeffrey Brown | |
 Jeffrey Brown at Heroes Con 2006. |
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| Born | 1975 Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
| Notable works | Bighead Clumsy |
| Awards | Ignatz Award, 2003 |
Jeffrey Brown (born 1975) is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After growing up in Michigan, a 25 year old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, he had abandoned painting and started drawing comics seriously. His first self-published book, Clumsy, appeared seemingly out of nowhere to grab attention from both cartoonists and comics fans. He specializes in personal and intimate works detailing moments in relationships. He writes his comics in sketchbooks, and his drawing is often out of proportion or incorrect in a way that mirrors that strain and awkwardness of the situations he depicts.
Established as an overly sensitive chronicler of bittersweet adolescent romance and nonsense superhero parody, Brown's current direction remains split between more autobiography examining the minutae of everyday life and whatever humorous fiction he feels in the mood for, and a wide range of fiction subjects in his new series SULK.
He won an Ignatz Award in 2003 in the category of Outstanding Mini-Comic, for I Am Going To Be Small.[1] He directed the music video for Death Cab for Cutie's " Your Heart is an Empty Room."[2]
His most popular works include Clumsy, Unlikely, AEIOU, and Every Girl is the End of the World For Me, comprising the so-called 'Girlfriend Trilogy' and its epilogue. More recently his autobiographical work has included Little Things and Funny Misshapen Body. His humorous works include Bighead, I Am Going To Be Small, Cat Getting Out Of A Bag and The Incredible Change-Bots.
His work has been featured on NPR's This American Life[3] and in MOME Summer 2005 Vol. 1, as well as Drawn and Quarterly Showcase, McSweeney's #13, and The Best American Comics 2007 both of which were edited by Chris Ware. He was also featured in local newspapers such as the Chicago Reader and NewCity.
James Kochalka has called Brown's Clumsy his "favorite graphic novel ever."[4] Clumsy was originally self-published and was later published by Top Shelf Productions and as of 2007 an estimated 20,000 copies have been printed, according to an interview with Brown in The Comics Journal.[5]
Brown's "To Phoenix I'm Sorry I Missed You" was published in the Spring 2008 issue of The Florida Review.
[edit] Bibliography
- Bighead (2004)
- Clumsy (Re-release, 2005)
- Unlikely (Re-release, 2005)
- AEIOU or Any Easy Intimacy (Re-release, 2005)
- Be A Man (2005)
- Top Shelf Tales (2004)
- Minisulk (2005)
- Conversation #2 with James Kochalka (2005)
- Every Girl is the End of the World for Me (2006)
- I Am Going To Be Small (Re-release, 2006)
- You Ain't No Dancer Vol. 2 (2006)
- Feeble Attempts (2007)
- Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations (2007)
- The Incredible Change-Bots (2007)
- Little Things (April 2008)
- MOME (Summer 05, Fall 05, Winter 06, Spring/Summer 06, Fall 06, Winter 07)
- Funny Misshapen Body (coming out Summer 2009)
[edit] References
- ^ 2003 Ignatz Award Recipients, SPX website. Accessed Dec. 27, 2008.
- ^ "News: Nick and Directions’ director Jeffrey Brown Signing in Minneapolis," Death Cab for Cutie website (Apr. 17, 2006). Accessed Dec. 27, 2008.
- ^ "237: Regime Change," This American Life website (Apr. 18, 2003). Accessed Dec. 27, 2008.
- ^ Quoted on Clumsy page at Top Shelf website. Accessed Dec. 27, 2008.
- ^ Stump, Greg. Comics Journal interview, Comics Journal #287 (Dec. 3, 2007). Accessed Dec. 27, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Top Shelf Comix - Jeffrey Brown's publisher.
- The Holy Consumption of Chicago - Regularly updated with work by Jeffrey as well as John Hankiewicz, Paul Hornschemeier and Anders Nilsen.
- Crudely Drawn Naked People - A blog attempting to review all of Jeffrey Brown's published work. (Ongoing as of January 2008)
- Hand-written interview with Jeffrey Brown' - A 2-page interview from ifpthendirt.
- Audio Interview at Crown Commission April 2006 interview.
- Radio Interview with The Panel July 2006 interview.
- Drawing Between the Lines A short documentary created in 2006 about Jeffrey Brown and his work.
- Audio Interview February 2007 interview on the Around Comics Podcast
- It's Nice That Two guest posts on the blog It's Nice That made by Jeffrey Brown in July 2007, discussing a forthcoming book titled Little Things and author Tao Lin.
- Comic book artist Jeffrey Brown: More than meets the eye November 2007 interview with the New York Daily News.
- Comic artist Jeffrey Brown is back with Little Things April 2008 interview with the New York Daily News.
- Jeffrey Brown at the Internet Movie Database
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