Box Brown
Brian "Box" Brown (born 1980) is an American cartoonist whose first work was the online comic Bellen! He was awarded in 2011 a Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing. In 2011, Brown started a Kickstarter fundraiser to create a new publisher called Retrofit Comics, with the goal of publishing 16 alternative comic books over 16 months.
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Box Brown

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- Birth Name
- Brian Brown
- Born
- 1980
- Awards
- Two Ignatz Awards, 2011 Eisner Award, 2019
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- cartoonist · comics artist
- Honours
- Xeric Award
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Brian "Box" Brown (born 1980) is an American cartoonist whose first work was the online comic Bellen! He was awarded in 2011 a Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing. In 2011, Brown started a Kickstarter fundraiser to create a new publisher called Retrofit Comics, with the goal of publishing 16 alternative comic books over 16 months.
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Box Brown (born 1980) is a cartoonist and comics artist, of American nationality. The cartoonist was born in United States. Honours include Xeric Award.
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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. In 2019, his book Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work. He has a syndicated non-fiction comic strip, Legalization Nation.

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• Birth Name — Brian Brown • Born — 1980 • Cartoonist — y • Publisher — y • Notable Works — André the Giant: Life and Legend Retrofit Comics • Awards — Two Ignatz Awards, 2011 Eisner Award, 2019
Graphic novels
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) • Powerman (Kilgore Books, 2016) • Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman (First Second, 2016). • Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America (First Second, 2019) • Child Star (First Second, 2020) • 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)
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1980
Box Brown was born in 1980 at United States.
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- 1.Box Brown / Top Shelf 2.0. Topshelfcomix.com.
- 2.Interview: Box Brown's Excellent Adventure. Newsarama. April 2, 2009.
- 3.Retrofit Comics: The Return of the Alt-comic Floppy. Kickstarter. July 25, 2011.
- 4.Retrofit Comics has arrived!. Comic Book Resources. September 13, 2011.
- 5.The New York Times website. Best Sellers. June 1, 2014.
- 6.Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List. The Hollywood Reporter. September 23, 2019.
- 7.Elissa Esher. Legalization Nation: A provocative cannabis comic for the weed-curious. San Francisco Chronicle. January 7, 2022.
- 8.New syndication options for illustrators. Editor and Publisher. June 16, 2022.
- 9.Exclusive: Box Brown Pieces Together the Story of TETRIS – Nerdist. April 26, 2015.
- 10.Brown, Box. Tetris: the games people play. May 15, 2017. 928492029.
- 11.Book Review. Publishers Weekly.
- 12.Rodriguez, Red. Brian "Box Brown", The Cartoonist Drawing Cannabis Legalization into the Spotlight. stupidDOPE. 15 August 2024.
- 13.Alverson, Brigid. Brian "Box" Brown Turns to Fiction. PublishersWeekly.com. April 10, 2020.
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