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Box Brown

Box Brown

American cartoonist

For the abolitionist, see Henry Box Brown.

Brian "Box" Brown (born 1980) is an American cartoonist whose first work was the online comic Bellen![1] He was awarded in 2011 a Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing.[2]

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In 2011, Brown started a Kickstarter fundraiser[3] to create a new publisher called Retrofit Comics, with the goal of publishing 16 alternative comic books over 16 months.[4] Since completing this goal, Retrofit Comics has continued to publish new comic books every month or two.

Brown created a full-length graphic novel about the professional wrestler André the Giant called André the Giant: Life and Legend. It debuted as ninth bestseller on the New York Times Bestseller List for Paperback Graphic Books and remained on the list for three weeks.[5]

In 2019, his book Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work.[6]

He has a syndicated non-fiction comic strip, Legalization Nation.[7][8]

Graphic novels

References

  1. [1]
    "Box Brown / Top Shelf 2.0". Topshelfcomix.com. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  2. [2]
    "Interview: Box Brown's Excellent Adventure". Newsarama. April 2, 2009. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Retrofit Comics: The Return of the Alt-comic Floppy". Kickstarter. July 25, 2011. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  4. [4]
    "Retrofit Comics has arrived!". Comic Book Resources. September 13, 2011. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  5. [5]
    "Best Sellers". The New York Times website. June 1, 2014. Retrieved September 8, 2014.
  6. [6]
    "Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. September 23, 2019. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  7. [7]
    Elissa Esher (January 7, 2022). "Legalization Nation: A provocative cannabis comic for the weed-curious". San Francisco Chronicle.
  8. [8]
    "New syndication options for illustrators". Editor and Publisher. June 16, 2022.
  9. [9]
    "Exclusive: Box Brown Pieces Together the Story of TETRIS – Nerdist". April 26, 2015. Archived from the original on November 10, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  10. [10]
    Brown, Box (May 15, 2017). Tetris: the games people play. OCLC 928492029. Retrieved May 15, 2017 – via Open WorldCat.
  11. [11]
    "Book Review". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 12, 2018.


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