Chester Brown

Can we somehow compel Chet legally to do a collection of the fucking yummy fur bible stories? It'd be like his best book.

^^^ when i heard about the new book i was hoping it was this.

I assume that will never happen. are there rights issues?

it seems bizarre that's the only work of his (with the exception of "underwater") that's still uncollected. i mean he even included his (extreme) juvenalia in "the little man."

lol Underwater. that seemed like such a bad idea

He only got partway through the second gospel, so there is no book to collect. (Since part of the point in doing them was to contrast the different portrayals of Jesus in each, he wouldn't want to give the wrong impression by only reprinting the bits that got done, and it was over two decades ago, so he's proooobably moved on by now)

Sex workers weigh in on problems of representation in the new book: http://titsandsass.com/mary-wept-at-the-feet-of-jesus-2016/

notice only dudes are into cb

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not a sausage partier and CB is my main man of cartooning tho yeah he is and always has been a total weirdo

i rewatched SHORTBUS recently and wikipedia'ed it ~~ sook-yon lee is the main character (repressed sex therapist) and that was a mind blower!!
she gets depicted like an everyday friend/ex in 'the little man' and this demure nothing in 'paying for it'
ches talks about her unhappiness with her portrayal in TLM in its footnotes (how did this guy start drowning in his own footnotes??)
well she seems like her own person
and it made me feel weird to realize that!!
tho clearly this guy is in his own world and always has been
always digging deep in the gospels and a big rep of the conspiracy that shakespeare was someone else

like what I <3 about ches is 1. above all his acumen at cartooning and its form; he is such an excellent draw-er
and
2. that he is totally the guy who gets THEORIES from public library RABBIT HOLES but is frank about the how and why of it

I’d prefer it if that work wasn’t reprinted.

Creating those Yummy-Fur/Underwater adaptations was part of my process of learning about the gospels and coming to understand them on a deeper level. (Suat would probably disagree that my understanding is deeper.) While I had some knowledge of the gospels when I began adapting them, that knowledge was pretty shallow. I feel that I’d do a much better job now. Also, the artwork in most of my version of Mark is poor. I did a better job in drawing Matthew.

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when the retrospective thoughts of artists, especially in light of their evolving work, deprive us of their older work :(

let's cut a deal, Chester, I'll buy your new shit if you reprint some of the old ones

i rewatched SHORTBUS recently and wikipedia'ed it ~~ sook-yon lee is the main character (repressed sex therapist) and that was a mind blower!!

I only found out about this myself recently (altho I recall being aware of Shortbus when it came out), was totally surprised. is that film actually worth seeing?

yeah. it's not very good, though.

this new one is good and a fast read (probs wouldve been better as a mini comic tbh) and the notes get sleep-inducing. also no matter how deep into the theory he tries to go, there is no way to not see this as a dude trying to justify his love of hookers by way of his love of god.

is he no longer in love with just the one hooker

haha oh shit... also the drawing in the new one is beautiful (of course)

if chester brown's work didn't exist, we would need a morally conflicted sex robot to invent it