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Chester Brown lives the dream. Making comix on his own terms since 1986, the 44-year-old Canadian has bucked his fans' expectations more times than a crazy lover, and managed to make a living doing it. Now, with the publication of his graphic novel, "Louis Riel," he not only has a hit, but also the accolades of the industry...
...brief history: Brown's first series, "Yummy Fur" appeared during a surge in the popularity of black and white, independent comix. Collected as the howlingly funny and surreal graphic novel "Ed the Happy Clown," those early issues were canonized as a highlight of 80s graphic literature. Then Brown did something unexpected: He radically changed the format of "Yummy Fur," using it for an autobiographical exploration whose nakedness caused many fans to cringe and slink away. Still, Brown soon found himself leading an "autobio" trend in the medium. Never one to stick to trends, after an aborted fictional project that featured...
...REVIEW OF A RECENT NOVEL OF YOURS SUGGESTED THAT ONE OF YOUR CALLINGS HAS BEEN TO WINNOW THE KOOKINESS OUT OF RIGHT-WING POLITICS. ARE THERE KOOKS STILL IN NEED OF WINNOWING? There are always kooks. The question becomes, Is their strength damaging to the vital and healthy organs of a political movement? The communists took over the American Labor Party. The Birchers did not take over the Republican Party...
Looking for a great comic? Just follow Buddha. Osamu Tezuka (1928-89), a pioneer of the manga (Japanese comic book) form, added his own characters and stories to the life of the great spiritual leader, creating a graphic-novel epic. Translated into English by Vertical Inc. as an eight-volume series of stylish, $25 hardcovers, the third installment comes out this month. Though Tezuka's characters are cartoonishly cute and he frequently inserts goofy humor, the series also explores adult themes of romance and violence. Literati and pop-culture mavens alike will enjoy this manga masterwork. By Andrew D. Arnold
...Jackson. In A Change of Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom, from food to the way a town's sewage system works. Exciting new writer Zakes Mda also mines South Africa's past for his feisty novel, The Madonna of Excelsior (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a fictionalized account of the arrest in 1971 of 19 small-town citizens for breaking the Immorality Act by having sex across the color line. Like so much in South Africa - past and present - expect it to challenge your prejudices...