The Playboy
by Brown, Chester
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No
- ISBN 10
- 0969670117
- ISBN 13
- 9780969670117
- Seller
-
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Drawn & Quarterly, 1990. softcover. Fine/No . 6x9. A memoir of shocking honesty by the graphic novelist behind 2011's acclaimed comic Paying for ItAs with every Chester Brown book, The Playboy-originally published in 1992-was ahead of its time, illustrating the fearlessness and prescience of the iconoclastic cartoonist. A memoir about Brown's adolescent sexuality and shame, The Playboy chronicles his teenage obsession with the magazine of the same name, but it's also a work that explores the physical form of comics to their fullest storytelling capacity. In it, a fifteen-year-old Chester is visited by a time-traveling adult Chester, and the latter narrates the former's compulsion to purchase each issue of Playboy as it appears on newsstands. Even more fascinating than his obsession with the magazine is his need to keep his habit secret and the resulting lengths to which he goes to avoid detection by his family and, later, his girlfriends.The comics that became The Playboy first appeared in issues of Brown's controversial, groundbreaking comic Yummy Fur more than twenty years ago, and yet the frankness of the work makes it seem avant-garde even now. As in every work by this master cartoonist, The Playboy uses no extra words, no extra panels, no extra lines, conveying environment and emotion through perfectly chosen moments. Fans of his acclaimed and controversial memoir Paying for It are sure to be drawn in by this early autobiographical portrait of blazing honesty. The expanded reissue includes all-new appendixes and notes from the author. Distributor sticker on first page.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mustang (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1095-R
- Title
- The Playboy
- Author
- Brown, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0969670117
- ISBN 13
- 9780969670117
- Publisher
- Drawn & Quarterly
- Place of Publication
- Montreal, Pq, Canada
- Date Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 172
- Size
- 6x9
- Keywords
- comics, graphic novel, autobiography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Comics;
- X weight
- kg
Terms of Sale
Mustang
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Mustang
Biblio member since 2024
Peterborough, Ontario
About Mustang
Lifelong book collector and once owner of Marginal Distribution, Canada's most quirky book distribution company. I am downsizing and clearing out some rare, out of print and unique titles and ephemera.
My goal is not to make scads of cash, but to get these books into the hands of those who will enjoy them.
Please send an email if you have questions.
My goal is not to make scads of cash, but to get these books into the hands of those who will enjoy them.
Please send an email if you have questions.