New Releases by Chester Brown

A harrowing memoir of loss and the struggle to connect, Brown''s story is told with a spare poetic elegance. A self-absorbed teenager, Chester Brown strays into the difficult territory of friendship and early love while at home there is a slowly building crisis over his mother''s mental health. Emotionally intense, the story veers unsteadily between the extremes of eerie detachment and sudden desperate outbursts of need. A complex and disturbing true story told with a nuanced, queasy visual style that lingers in the mind long after the book has been put away.

"One of the medium''s brilliant mavericks." — time.com The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995 is a collection of short-story works by the celebrated and bestselling Louis Riel cartoonist Chester Brown. From his early experimental comedic surrealism to his later autobiographical and essay strips, we see not a major talent in development but a fully realized storytelling virtuoso. Included are his early autobiographical stories "Helder" (a story about a young man''s tentativeness when pursuing a woman), "Showing Helder" (a blow-by-blow account of the construction of the previous story), and "Danny" (a strangely compelling moment-by-moment account of Brown waking up and trying to avoid contact with a fellow rooming-house tenant). Other standouts are Brown''s controversial essay on schizophrenia (specifically his own mother''s) and various medical views on this baffling disease, and the title story, "The Little Man," a Freudian classroom romp fantasy by a adolescent Brown that ties into the schizophrenia essay in a surprising way. The acclaimed compendium, culled mostly from his groundbreaking comic book series Yummy Fur, provides a fascinating insight into Brown''s psyche; he rounds out the collection with exacting notes on each story.

The idiosyncratic master Chester Brown continues his thoughts on sex work The iconoclastic and bestselling cartoonist of Paying for It: A comic-strip memoir about being a john returns 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 and 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.

The critically lauded memoir about being a john. Now in paperback! Paying for It was easily the most talked-about and controversial graphic novel of 2011, a critical success so innovative and complex that it received two rave reviews in the New York Times, and sold out of its first print run in just six months. Chester Brown’s eloquent, spare artwork stands out in this paperback edition. Paying for It combines the personal and sexual aspects of Brown’s autobiographical work (I Never Liked You, The Playboy) with the polemical drive of Louis Riel. Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in, but a vocal proponent of one of the world’s most hot-button topics—prostitution. While this may appear overly sensational and just plain implausible to some, Brown’s story stands for itself. Paying for It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work—from the timid john who rides his bike to his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of clichéd street corners, drugs, or pimps. Complete with a surprise ending, Paying for It continues to provide endless debate and conversation about sex work.

Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel. Brown won 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 Metis leader''s life. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, an embattled figure in Canadian history, regarded by some as a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.

In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the much-lauded 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 Chester 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, as with every Brown book, astonishingly perceptive about the zeitgeist of its time.

«Forse il miglior graphic novel insieme a Maus.» Gilbert Hernandez, Love and Rockets «Questo libro tenero e limpido è un potente sortilegio contro le illusioni amorose e le commedie romantiche.» dalla prefazione di Francesco Pacifico «Tra i fumetti più delicati mai realizzati.» Eddie Campbell, From Hell «Il memoir minimalista e inquietante di un''adolescenza difficile.» Così la «New York Times Book Review» salutò Non mi sei mai piaciuto. La storia era comparsa a puntate su «Yummy Fur», una rivista a fumetti realizzata dallo stesso Chester Brown: cinque capitoli tra il 1991 e il 1993 per un''opera che oggi è ancora tra le più brucianti autobiografie a fumetti di sempre, seminale al pari di Maus e Persepolis. Nelle pagine di questo classico contemporaneo, che nel 1994 ha esordito in volume per la canadese Drawn & Quarterly, Brown rivive i trascorsi della sua educazione sentimentale, quella di un bel ragazzino, timido e controllato, all''ombra di una madre consumata dalla schizofrenia. Rivelando con crudezza i suoi ricordi, Brown si racconta con la sintesi e la potenza di un vero poeta, scarnificando la sua intimità fino a renderla universale. Arrivato in Italia nel 1999, Non mi sei mai piaciuto è stato oggetto di culto e studio per un''intera generazione di autrici e autori allora emergenti. A lungo introvabile, oggi questa perla del fumetto indipendente viene riproposta ai lettori italiani in una nuova edizione. Un''occasione per scoprire e riscoprire queste pagine che, con la loro impetuosa chiarezza, rievocano le vibrazioni dell''adolescenza: una terra di nessuno contesa dalla voglia di passare inosservati e il bisogno di sentirsi oggetti del desiderio. *********************** Questo eBook è ottimizzato per la fruizione su tablet; se ne sconsiglia pertanto la lettura sui dispositivi eReader.

Uma polêmica interpretação da Bíblia, Maria chorou aos pés de Jesus é a versão em quadrinhos de nove histórias do Antigo e do Novo Testamento, que apresentam a fascinante e surpreendente tese sobre as representações bíblicas da prostituição. Brown traça uma linha conectando Betsebá, Rute, Raabe, Tamar, Maria de Betânia e a Virgem Maria e reavalia o código moral cristão examinando as implicações das representações do trabalho sexual na Bíblia.

''[A] clear-eyed, not-even-slightly-erotic, compulsively readable, sometimes painfully honest account of his time, reasons and experiences paying for sex...[W]ill engage your mind and force you to think about things in ways you may never have done before.''-Neil Gaiman A CONTEMPORARY DEFENCE OF THE WORLD''S OLDEST PROFESSION Paying For It is a natural progression for Brown as it combines the personal and the sexual aspects of his autobiographical work with the polemical drive of Louis Riel. Brown calmly lays out the facts for us of how he became, not only a willing participant, but a vocal proponent of one of the world''s most hot-button topics-prostitution. While this may appear overtly sensational and just plain implausible to some, Brown''s story stands for itself. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work from the timid John who rides his bike to his escorts, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of cliched depictions of street corners, drugs, or pimps.

Collected interviews with the unconventional comics creator of Yummy Fur (1983-1994), comics memoirs such as The Playboy (1991/1992) and I Never Liked You (1991-1994), and his best-selling memoir Paying for It (2011)

Condamné à la traditionnelle messe dominicale, le jeune Chester ne peut détourner ses pensées du Playboy qu''il a entraperçu la veille au drugstore. Surmontant la peur et la honte, il finit par acquérir la sulfureuse revue dans l''après-midi. Nous sommes le 23 mai 1975, la vie de Chester Brown vient de basculer. Un rituel s''installe rapidement autour de la parution du magazine : les risques liés à son achat, le plaisir fugace qu''il procure, la recherche d''une cachette pour s''en défaire. Une version diabolique et narquoise du Chester adulte commente les efforts réalisés par son double adolescent pour maintenir cette obsession secrète. Oscillant entre désir et déni, le jeune garçon grandit dans la honte et la transgression, s''émancipant avec difficulté d''une éducation qui a fait du sexe un tabou. Cette culpabilité adolescente ne le quittera pas une fois adulte et c''est cette histoire de rejet et de fascination pour Playboy que l''auteur détaille ici avec malice. Les lecteurs de Vingt-trois prostituées seront une nouvelle fois conquis par ce portrait attachant, d''une précision maniaque et d''une honnêteté déconcertante. Publié initialement en 1992, The Playboy a marqué son époque et la bande dessinée autobiographique. Vingt ans plus tard, Chester Brown a choisi d''en réécrire les textes, le redessinant partiellement, supprimant les cadres noirs qui l''alourdissaient et le complétant de notes éclairantes et parfois cocasses. C''est cette version inédite que nous publions aujourd''hui.

O amor romântico? Não existe. Pagar por sexo é melhor. Realizado e emocionalmente impassível, Chester Brown, um dos monstros sagrados da HQ moderna, se revela em um relato cheio de detalhes, provocativo e irreverente da sua experiência com prostitutas. Feliz em pagar por sua felicidade.

Au terme de sa rupture avec Sook-Yin Lee, Chester Brown décide qu''il ne veut plus de petite amie. Trois ans d''abstinence plus tard, il décide de sauter le pas et de fréquenter les prostituées. Ce livre évoque chacune des vingt-trois filles (vingt-quatre en réalité) avec lesquelles l''auteur a eu des relations sexuelles tarifées entre 1999 et 2010. Souvent drôle, toujours lucide, ce journal de bord d''un micheton offre un tableau saisissant de la prostitution contemporaine, que le talent de son auteur exempte de tout voyeurisme ou sensationnalisme. S''il ne montre jamais le visage de ses partenaires, et préserve leur anonymat, Chester Brown s''efforce de rendre aussi fidèlement que possible et leurs corps et leurs conversations. Il décrit le métier de la prostitution et les relations entre les filles et leur client avec une honnêteté et un recul dignes d''éloge. Dessinant crûment mais sans misérabilisme les matelas à même le sol et les préservatifs, il alterne les scènes les plus prosaïques, qui posent la question du pourboire ou de la véracité des photos sur les sites d''escort-girls, avec des séquences où il confronte ses vues à celles de ses amis et confrères, Seth et Joe Matt. Le trait est à l''unisson du récit : sec, sobre et ironique. Livre sans apprêt repoussant le narcissisme, 23 prostituées, véritable plaidoyer pour la libéralisation et la reconnaissance de la prostitution, révèle en creux la détresse affective et l''hypocrisie des sociétés modernes.

"Pagando por ello es un libro muy instructivo, a la par que divertido: [Chester Brown] en este sentido es un artista muy habilidoso." R. CRUMB Las memorias en cómic de Chester Brown son un relato franco y sincero de su decisión de pagar a mujeres para que practiquen sexo con él. Pagando por ello se articula en base a tres ejes: el relato gráfico pormenorizado de sus encuentros con prostitutas, la reflexión y crítica amarga de la trampa del amor romántico y la argumentación sólida a favor de la despenalización de la prostitución. En Pagando por ello Chester Brown nos narra sus experiencias con la prostitución. Desencantado del amor romántico tras la ruptura con su última novia, Chester Brown debe solucionar el problema de seguir manteniendo relaciones sexuales tras haber decidido que no quiere volver a tener novia nunca más. Como no es lo suficientemente sociable y atrevido para conseguir mantener relaciones sexuales esporádicas con desconocidas, la única manera de seguir manteniendo relaciones sexuales es recurriendo a la prostitución. Pagando por ello nos ofrece una completa exploración contemporánea del trabajo sexual: desde el cliente tímido que va en bicicleta a la búsqueda de prostitutas y se pregunta cómo dar propina sin ofender, lee a expertos en la materia para saber cómo actuar, hasta las transacciones modernas a través de reseñas on-line de prostitutas, y todo ello denunciando todos los clichés asociados a la prostitución (marginalidad, suciedad, drogas y proxenetas). En la obra no sólo describe pormenorizadamente sus encuentros con las prostitutas, sin entrar en detalles morbosos, sino que también refleja todas las discusiones que tuvo con sus allegados (entre ellos Seth y Joe Matt) sobre la prostitución, ya fuesen sus aspectos económicos, personales, morales, éticos, etc.

Recent years have seen a proliferation of international courts and tribunals, which has given rise to several new issues affecting the administration of international justice. This book makes a signification contribution to understanding the impact of this proliferation by addressing oneimportant question: namely, whether international courts and tribunals are increasingly adopting common approaches to issues of procedure and remedies. This book''s central argument is that there is an increasing commonality in the practice of international courts to the application of rulesconcerning these issues, and that this represents the emergence of a common law of international adjudication.This book examines this question by considering several key issues relating to procedure and remedies, and analyses relevant international jurisprudence to demonstrate that there is susbstantial commonality. It goes on to look at why international courts are increasingly adopting common approachesto such questions, and why a greater degree of commonality may be found with respect to some issues rather than others. In doing so, light is shed on the methods adopted by international courts to engage in the cross-fertilization of legal principles.The emergence of a common law of international adjudication has important practical and theoretical implications, as it suggests that international courts can also devise common approaches to the challenges that they face in the age of proliferation. It also suggests that international courts do notgenerally operate as self-contained regimes, but rather that they regard themselves as forming part of a community of international courts, therefore having positive implications for the development of an truly international legal system.

27 histoires courtes, souvent drôles ou absurdes, qui permettent de découvrir l’univers de Chester Brown, figure de l’underground nord-américain. Sorte de florilège des manières de se raconter (expérimentations graphiques et mises en page diverses), à travers des récits délirants.