DIGESTATE CONTRIBUTOR:
BOX BROWN!
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Box
Brown
is a cartoonist, illustrator and comic publisher from Philadelphia.
His comics have been featured in Mad Magazine and his
illustrations have been on Wired.com. His web and print comic "Everything Dies" was named a notable comic of 2011 in the Best American Comics Anthology and was honored with two Ignatz
Awards. His comics publishing outfit, Retrofit launched in
2011. He's currently working on a comic biography of pro
wrestler Andre the Giant.
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| Page from "Best Friends 4 Ever" |
Editor's Note: I think Box won a Xeric grant in the same cycle as Sophia Wiedeman and me, because I remember meeting him around the same time as her. I always look forward to seeing what new minis he'll have at the various comic conventions at which we both have tables. The man is incredibly prolific. I consider it an accomplishment if I have a new comic at each convention, but Box seems to always have at least two or more new ones!
I love his work for the same reasons I love James Kochalka's work: he is able to pare his drawings down to the essentials without losing any emotional impact. Clean, simple and easy to read.
Oh, and I should mention how much I love his Retrofit Comics outfit. By subscribing you'll have a new "floppy" comic sent to you about once every month. It seems that most everyone has switched over to putting out graphic novels, so it's refreshing to have this neglected format embraced once again.
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| Page from "Everything Dies" series |
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| Page from "Ghosts & Aliens" ("Everything Dies" series) |
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