Chester Brown

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chester Brown
Occupation	Cartoonist
Date Of Birth	May 16, 1960(1960-05-16)
Age	64
Birthplace	Montreal
Country	Canada
Birth City	Quebec
Horoscope	Taurus

Chester Brown Biography

Chester Brown is one of the most popular and richest Cartoonist who was born on May 16, 1960 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Chester William David Brown was born on May 16, 1960, at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was raised in Chateauguay in Chateauguay, which is a Montreal suburb that has a significant majority of English-speaking residents. His father was a professor of history. Chester New, after whom Chester New Hall is named at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has a younger brother, Gordon who is 2 years younger than him. His mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and passed away in 1976 when she fell on the stairs at the Montreal General Hospital.

In the early 20s Brown’s interest shifted from monster and superhero comic books and towards works by Robert Crumb and other underground cartoonists, Heavy Metal magazine, and Will Eisner’s graphic novel A Contract with God (1978). Brown began drawing in a style that was inspired by the underground and sent drawings to the publishers Fantagraphics Books and Last Gasp He received an enthusiastic rejection when he sent his work to the Art Spiegelman along with Francoise Mouly’s Raw magazine. He was introduced to film historian Reg Hartt, and the two planned unsuccessfully to release an anthology of comics titled Beans and Wieners as a showcase of Toronto’s local Toronto talent.

Brown has gone through several stylistic and thematic periods. He gained notice in alternative comics circles in the 1980s for the surreal, scatological Ed the Happy Clown serial. After bringing Ed to an abrupt end, he delved into confessional autobiographical comics in the early 1990s and was strongly associated with fellow Toronto-based cartoonists Seth and Joe Matt, and the contemporary autobiographical comics trend. Two graphic novels came from this period: The Playboy (1992) and I Never Liked You (1994). Surprise mainstream success in the 2000s came with Louis Riel (2003), a historical- biographical graphic novel about rebel Métis leader Louis Riel. Paying for It (2011) drew controversy as a polemic in support of decriminalizing prostitution, a theme he explored further with Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus (2016), a book of adaptations of stories from the Bible that Brown believes promote pro-prostitution attitudes among early Christians.

In 1983 Brown’s girlfriend Kris Nakamura introduced him to the small-press publisher John W. Curry (or “jwcurry”), whose example inspired the local small-press community. Nakamura convinced Brown that summer to print his unpublished work as minicomics, which he did under his Tortured Canoe imprint. The sporadically self-published Yummy Fur lasted seven issues as a minicomic. Brown soon found himself at the centre of Toronto’s small-press scene. While he found it difficult at first, Brown managed to get the title into independent bookstores, the emerging comic shops, and other countercultural retailers, and also sold it through the growing North American zine network. Yummy Fur had respectable sales through several reprintings and repackaging.

Brown said he was an “nerdy teeneager” attracted to comics from the age of a child, and especially those that focused on monsters and superheroes. Brown hoped to pursue a career in comics featuring superheroes and following his graduation from high school in 1977, he went into New York City, where there were unsuccessful, but positive conversations for Marvel as well as DC Comics. He then moved to Montreal to attend Dawson College. The school did not have a goal at a career in comics, and he quit after just over an entire year. He attempted to get work with a company in New York, but was turned down again. He was introduced to that alternative comics movement emerging in the early 1980s and embraced the freedom of creating the work was his idea. When he was 19, He relocated to Toronto and was offered an internship in a photography lab. He also lived cheaply in a rooming house.

Chester Brown Net Worth

Chester Brown is one of the richest Cartoonist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chester Brown 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chester William David Brown (born 16 May 1960) is a Canadian cartoonist from Canada.

He also penciled Steve Bissette’s pencils in the tale “It Came From … Higher Space!” from Alan Moore’s 1993 issue in 1993.

In the 1980s Brown expressed sympathy for left-wing politics, although he has stated his understanding of politics was not deep. He considered himself an anarchist until, while researching Louis Riel, he became interested in issues of property rights, especially influenced by his reading of Tom Bethell’s The Noblest Triumph, a book which argues that the West owes its prosperity to having established strong property rights. Brown thus gained an interest in libertarianism–a belief that government should protect property rights (although, he says, not copyrights), and otherwise should mostly keep out of people’s lives. After attending a few meetings of the Libertarian Party of Canada, he was asked to run for Parliament, and collected the 100 signatures necessary to appear on the ballot.

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Brown provided the illustrations for the story “A Tribute to Bill Marks” in Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor #15 in 1990, and “How This Forward Got Written” in The New American Splendor Anthology in 1991.

Facts & Trivia

Chester Ranked on the list of most popular Cartoonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Chester Brown celebrates birthday on May 16 of every year.

Around this time, Brown had become friends with the cartoonists Seth and Joe Matt. The three became noted for doing confessional autobio comics in the early 1990s, and for depicting each other in their works. In 1993, they did an interview together in The Comics Journal’ s autobiographical comics issue. Seth had joined the new Montreal-based comics publisher Drawn and Quarterly, which had also started publishing Julie Doucet. D&Q’s Chris Oliveros had been courting Brown to join as well, but Brown had felt loyal to Bill Marks for giving him his first break. When his contract came up in 1991, however, Oliveros offered Brown nearly double the royalty he was getting from Vortex. Brown moved to D&Q starting with Yummy Fur #25.