Maria pianse sui piedi di Gesù. Prostituzione e obbedienza religiosa nella Bibbia

Would have been the strangest book I read this year, I guess, if it wasn’t that I already read Death Scenes which features a photograph of a man suffering from elephantiasis of the testicle, so that became the gold standard of strangeness for 2016. First, this book is not a graphic novel, it’s a bon Leggi tutto

Four stars here doesn't really mean in this instance that I loved this book. I admire it and at turns find it fascinating and weird, like much of Brown's work that with the exception of his Louis Riel seems to focus in part on his own sexual practices, and increasingly, his political activism around Leggi tutto

Chester Brown draws comics like it was a traditional craft practised since ancient times: a vocational path to God. Reading this book put me into a slow meditative trance. It's like Sufi cartooning.

Chester Brown is something of... an oddity among cartoonists. Not just in terms of creative output (which ranges from unflinching autobiography, absurdist fiction, non-fiction treatments of historical events, to searing polemics) but as a human being as well. In his mannerisms, tone of voice, etc..

It's a 170 page comic book with a 100 page afterward and notes. Which leaves me asking... Why? Why do that? If you want to write a book, write a book. If you want to write a comic, write a comic. Then there's the content. It's weird. And yet not weird. Bible stories, but bent slightly because, well, Leggi tutto

When I first discovered Chester Brown it was in the underground comic Yummy Fur, which was part, ... well, what does "Yummy Fur" make you think of? And in the back he was re-telling word for word (I think) one of the Gospels. It is wild that after all this time, after he has developed as a graphic st Leggi tutto

I was going to give this two stars... but it's Chester Brown so gave it 3. I'll be honest and admit that I didn't read all the author's notes at the end of the book where he explains the point he's getting at, which is basically that sex workers get a pretty bad rep in the Bible. Chester Brown is a