The Little Man
Short Strips 1980-1995
Brown, Chester
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
"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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A note of pure genius." --Rain Taxi Review of Books
"It might seem jarring for a book to begin with 'The Toilet Paper Revolt' . . . and end with 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic' . . . , but Brown pulls it off by mixing equal parts surrealism, violence, and contemplation. As a whole, this book tells another story: the maturing of an artist." --Details
"Outrageous, surreal, hushed, mystical, and, often, funny as hell." --Metro Times (Detroit)
"They universally exhibit Brown's inimitable mix of intimate and surreal." --Now
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ISBN: 1896597130
ISBN(13-digit): 9781896597133
Dewey Decimal: 741
Library of Congress: 2006491579
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.65
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