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Chester Brown

    May 16, 1960
    Chester Brown
    Mary wept over the feet of Jesus
    Ed the happy clown : a graphic novel
    Louis Riel - a Comic-Strip Biography
    Louis Riel
    I Never Liked You
    Sex není zadarmo
    • Paying for It: The Film Edition

      • 344 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      This critically acclaimed memoir about being a john has now been adapted into a major motion picture. The graphic novel was a standout in 2011, receiving two rave reviews in The New York Times for its innovative and complex narrative. Chester Brown's distinctive artwork is featured in this new paperback edition, coinciding with the film directed by his longtime friend Sook-Yin Lee. The memoir offers a candid exploration of sex work through Brown's experiences as a timid john, detailing his encounters with escorts, his concerns about tipping, and his reliance on advice from Dan Savage. It demystifies a sensationalized subject, presenting a world of online reviews and clean environments, free from the clichés of street corners, drugs, or pimps. Brown merges personal and sexual themes from his previous works with a polemical approach, advocating for the legalization of sex work. This edition includes an introduction by Lee, expanded notes on the film adaptation, movie stills, behind-the-scenes shots, and a new cover along with artwork created for the production. This edition is essential for fans of Brown and filmmaking.

      Paying for It: The Film Edition2024
    • Mary wept over the feet of Jesus

      • 280 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      The idiosyncratic master Chester Brown continues his thoughts on sex workThe iconoclastic and bestselling cartoonist of Paying for It: A comic-strip memoir about being a john and Louis Riel returns and with a polemical interpretation of the Bible that will be one of the most controversial and talked-about graphic novels of 2016. Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus is the retelling in comics form of nine biblical stories that present Chester Brown's fascinating and startling thesis about biblical representations of prostitution. Brown weaves a connecting line between Bathsheba, Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, Mary of Bethany, and the Virgin Mother. He reassesses the Christian moral code by examining the cultural implications of the Bible's representations of sex work.Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus is a fitting follow-up to Brown's sui generis graphic memoir Paying for It, which was reviewed twice in The New York Times and hailed by sex workers for Brown's advocacy for the decriminalization and normalization of prostitution. Brown approaches the Bible as he did the life of Louis Riel, making these stories compellingly readable and utterly pertinent to a modern audience. In classic Chester Brown fashion, he provides extensive handwritten endnotes that delve into the biblical lore that informs Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus.

      Mary wept over the feet of Jesus2016
      3,7
    • Louis Riel

      • 296 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      A limited-edition reprint of Brown's celebrated biography of the Canadian rebel Louis Riel tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth-century Metis leader whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nations western frontier. When the collected book appeared in 2003, Brown won widespread critical and industry acclaim for Louis Riel, including two Harvey Awards and inclusion on countless best-of lists. Beyond that, it single-handedly revitalized the biography genre of comics, paving the way for a new generation of artists. This special tenth anniversary edition features rare supplementary material, including early cover art from the original serialization, pencil studies and draft scripts, poster and catalogue art, and a new essay by critic Sean Rogers.

      Louis Riel2013
      4,0
    • Sex není zadarmo

      • 282 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      Autobiografický komiks kanadského autora. Chester se po rozchodu rozhodne nesnažit se navázat pevný vztah s jinou dívkou. Sex, poté co mu začne scházet, získává ho tou nejsnadnější cestou: platí za něj. Ve své knize otevřeně líčí svoje zkušenosti s prostitutkami a zprostředkovává čtenáři svět profesionálních milenek. Věcnému vyprávění odpovídá i přesné a úsporné výtvarné pojetí. Komiks je především polemikou s tradičním chápáním vztahu mezi mužem a ženou.

      Sex není zadarmo2013
      3,7
    • Chester Brown, ein herausragender Comic-Künstler, erzählt in diesem Buch sensibel und schonungslos von seinem Leben mit Prostituierten. Er hinterfragt das Ideal romantischer Liebe und präsentiert seine Ansichten zur Prostitution provokant und sachlich. Browns klare, reduzierte Zeichnungen reflektieren die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen.

      Ich bezahle für Sex. Aufzeichnungen eines Freiers2012
      4,0
    • Ed the happy clown : a graphic novel

      • 243 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      A LONG-OUT-OF-PRINT CLASIC BY A MASTER OF UNDERGROUND COMICS In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the muchlauded Paying for It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking Ed the Happy Clown, revealing a macabre universe of parallel dimensions. Thanks to its wholly original yet disturbing story lines, Ed set the stage for Brown to become a world-renowned cartoonist. Ed the Happy Clown is a hallucinatory tale that functions simultaneously as a dark roller-coaster ride of criminal activity and a scathing condemnation of religious and political charlatanism. As the world around him devolves into madness, the eponymous Ed escapes variously from a jealous boyfriend, sewer monsters, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and a janitor with a Jesus complex. Brown leaves us wondering, with every twist of the plot, just how Ed will get out of this scrape. The intimate, tangled world of Ed the Happy Clown is definitively presented here, repackaged with a new foreword by the author and an extensive notes section, and is, like every Brown book, astonishingly perceptive about the zeitgeist of its time.

      Ed the happy clown : a graphic novel2012
      3,8
    • I Never Liked You

      • 188 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      In one of the best graphic novels published in recent years, Chester Brown tells the story of his alienated youth in an almost detached, understated manner, giving I Never Liked You an eerie, dream-like quality. For the new 2002 definitive softcover edition Brown has designed new layouts for the entire book, using "white" panel backgrounds instead of the black pages of the first edition.

      I Never Liked You2007
      3,0
    • Brown offers an examination of the jurisprudence of a range of international courts and tribunals relating to issues of procedure and remedies, and assessment whether there are emerging commonalities regarding these issues which could make up a unified law of international adjudication.

      A common law of international adjudication2007
    • Louis Riel - a Comic-Strip Biography

      • 280 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      "It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -Time Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Métis leader. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, who some regard a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.

      Louis Riel - a Comic-Strip Biography2006
      3,9