Box Brown
American cartoonist
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Brian "Box" Brown (born 1980) is an American cartoonist whose first work was the online comic Bellen![1] He was awarded in 2011 a Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing.[2]
1980 (age 45–46)
Retrofit Comics
| Box Brown | |
|---|---|
Brown at the Miami Book Fair International, 2014 | |
| Born | Brian Brown 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Area | Cartoonist, Publisher |
Notable works | André the Giant: Life and Legend Retrofit Comics |
| Awards | Two Ignatz Awards, 2011 Eisner Award, 2019 |
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In 2011, Brown started a Kickstarter fundraiser[3] to create a new publisher called Retrofit Comics, with the goal of publishing 16 alternative comic books over 16 months.[4] Since completing this goal, Retrofit Comics has continued to publish new comic books every month or two.
Brown created a full-length graphic novel about the professional wrestler André the Giant called André the Giant: Life and Legend. It debuted as ninth bestseller on the New York Times Bestseller List for Paperback Graphic Books and remained on the list for three weeks.[5]
In 2019, his book Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work.[6]
He has a syndicated non-fiction comic strip, Legalization Nation.[7][8]
Graphic novels
- Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing (Top Shelf, 2009)
- The Survivalist (Blank Slate, 2011)
- Number, Issues 1 & 2 (Retrofit / Big Planet Comics, 2014)
- André the Giant: Life and Legend (First Second, 2014)
- An Entity Observes All Things (Retrofit Comics, 2015)
- Tetris: The Games People Play (First Second, 2016)[9][10]
- Powerman (Kilgore Books, 2016)
- Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman (First Second, 2016).[11]
- Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America (First Second, 2019)[12]
- Child Star (First Second, 2020)[13]
- Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin (with Andrew S. Weiss, First Second, 2022)
- The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood (First Second, 2023)
