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Author Description Chester Brown is a Canadian cartoonist.<br />Brown was born in Montreal in 1960 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chateauguay. <br />At 19, Brown moved to Toronto, where he found a day job while practicing cartooning in his free time. In 1983, he began to self-publish his work in photocopied mini-comics under the title <i>Yummy Fur</i>. These pamphlets attracted some attention in the industry, and in 1986 the Toronto-based comic book publisher Vortex Comics approached Brown. The first Vortex issue of Yummy Fur sold well, so Brown quit his day job to become a full-time cartoonist.<br />In the pages of Yummy Fur, Brown serialized the story <i>Ed the Happy Clown</i>, which was published as a graphic novel in 1989 and went on to win several awards.<br />Brown's following book <i>The Playboy</i> (1992) was the first graphic novel released by the Canadian comic publisher Drawn & Quarterly. It was followed by <i>I Never Liked You</i> (1994) and the collection of shorts tories <i>The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995</i> (1998). From 1998 to 2003 Brown worked on <i>Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography</i>. His latest books are <i>Paying for It</i> (2011) and <i>Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus</i> (2016), both tackling at some level the theme of decriminalisation of prostitution.

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