Paying for It, cartoonist Chester Brown's memoir in comic strips about being a john, is — well, asking for it. The word controversial doesn't begin to describe this remarkably frank but profoundly ...

Chester Brown must have known what he was getting himself into. In creating Paying for It, the Toronto-based cartoonist was setting himself up for criticism, not just of his work but of himself and ...

In a pop-culture landscape where everyone is fighting for attention, Chester Brown gets it without even seeming to try. The Châteauguay-raised cartoonist’s cult status changed dramatically in 2004 ...

Chester Brown is recalling the first time he started to doubt his Christianity. At 11 he read the book jacket of The Passover Plot, a book which frames the crucifixion as an elaborate hoax by a ...

“It’s because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all.” —Chester Brown The quote, ...

As election day draws near, the Libertarian Party candidate for the federal riding of Trinity-Spadina is thinking about getting on his bike to do some campaigning in the wetlands of downtown Toronto.

In the early 1990s, my girlfriend and I considered it our duty as self-righteous university undergrads to write to cartoonist Chester Brown concerning a story in his comic book Yummy Fur. If I ...

In his latest graphic novel, Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, Chester Brown makes a few arguments that might be called unorthodox. One is that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was probably a sex worker ...

Chester Brown’s comics memoir Paying For It came out last week, and–as it was designed to do–it’s already been raising some eyebrows. Brown’s a superb cartoonist whose earlier books include the ...

The graphic novel has now reached enough maturity as a format for adult storytelling that it’s no longer necessary, perhaps, in a mainstream review, to draw attention to it. Except it should be noted ...

Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown emerged from the mini-comics movement of the mid-’80s and quickly established himself as one of the most original artists of his generation. With his series Yummy Fur ...