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20.4.04
CHESTER BROWN RESTRAINS HIMSELF : Heidi MacDonald interviews Chester on the pulse
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One of the most respected indie cartoonists of the last 20 years, Chester Brown has made perhaps his most impressive mark yet with LOUIS RIEL (ree-AHL), a comics biography of a still-controversial Canadian rebel. But it's only the latest in a remarkable string of hits, starting with ED, THE HAPPY CLOWN, a lurid, surreal excursion into sexual dysfunction and political satire; THE PLAYBOY, a frank examination of the author's adolescent interest in pin-ups; and I NEVER LIKED YOU, a devastatingly understated autobiographical tale which juxtaposes Brown's emerging sexuality with his mother's mental disintegration.

Brown chats about all this in the following interview, but be forewarned, he can be a man of few words who lets hiw work do the talking; with work so eloquent, who can blame him? --->>



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