Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown (born 1975) is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He specialises 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. He won an Ignatz award in 2003 in the category of Outstanding Mini-Comic, for "I Am Going To Be Small". He directed the music video for Death Cab for Cutie's "Your Heart is an Empty Room".

His work has been featured on NPR's This American Life and in MOME, "Drawn and Quarterly Showcase" and "McSweeney's" #13, which was edited by Chris Ware. James Kochalka has called "Clumsy" his "favorite graphic novel ever". "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 by Brown in "The Comics Journal".

Brown's "To Phoenix I'm Sorry I Missed You" was published in the Spring 2008 issue of "The Florida Review".

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)

External links

* [http://www.topshelfcomix.com/ "Top Shelf Comix"] - Jeffrey Brown's publisher.
* [http://www.margomitchell.com/thc/indexthc.htm "The Holy Consumption of Chicago"] - Regularly updated with work by Jeffrey as well as John Hankiewicz, Paul Hornschemeier and Anders Nilsen.
* [http://crudelydrawnnakedpeople.wordpress.com/ "Crudely Drawn Naked People"] - A blog attempting to review all of Jeffrey Brown's published work. (Ongoing as of January 2008)
* [http://www.ifpthendirt.com/interviews.html "Hand-written interview with Jeffrey Brown'] - A 2-page interview from ifpthendirt.
* [http://crowncommission.com/?cat=6 "Audio Interview at Crown Commission"] April 2006 interview.
* [http://thepanelkjhk.blogspot.com/2006/07/podcast-from-070606-show-guest-jeffrey.html "Radio Interview with The Panel"] July 2006 interview.
* [http://www.angryheartproductions.com/DBL/index.html"Drawing Between the Lines"] A short documentary created in 2006 about Jeffrey Brown and his work.
* [http://www.aroundcomics.com/new/around-comics-ep.-072.html"Audio Interview"] February 2007 interview on the Around Comics Podcast
* [http://www.itsnicethat.com/index.php?c=Its-Not-Us"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.
* [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/culture/2007/11/01/2007-11-01_comic_book_artist_jeffrey_brown_more_tha-1.html "Comic book artist Jeffrey Brown: More than meets the eye"] November 2007 interview with the New York Daily News.
* [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2008/04/13/2008-04-13_comic_artist_jeffrey_brown_is_back_with_-1.html?page=0 "Comic artist Jeffrey Brown is back with Little Things"] April 2008 interview with the New York Daily News.