Box Brown

Brian "Box" Brown (born Brian Brown in 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]

For the abolitionist, see Henry Box Brown.
Brian "Box" Brown
Brown at the Miami Book Fair International, 2014
BornBrian Brown
1980 (age 42–43)
Area(s)Cartoonist, Publisher
Notable works
André the Giant: Life and Legend
Retrofit Comics
AwardsTwo Ignatz Awards, 2011 Eisner Award, 2019
www.boxbrown.com

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

References
  1. "Box Brown / Top Shelf 2.0". Topshelfcomix.com. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  2. "Interview: Box Brown's Excellent Adventure". Newsarama. 2009-04-02. Archived from the original on 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  3. "Retrofit Comics: The Return of the Alt-comic Floppy". Kickstarter. 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  4. "Retrofit Comics has arrived!". Comic Book Resources. 2011-09-13. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  5. "Best Sellers". The New York Times website. 2014-06-01. Retrieved 2014-09-08.
  6. "Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  7. Elissa Esher (January 7, 2022). "Legalization Nation: A provocative cannabis comic for the weed-curious". San Francisco Chronicle.
  8. "New syndication options for illustrators". Editor and Publisher. June 16, 2022.
  9. "Exclusive: Box Brown Pieces Together the Story of TETRIS - Nerdist". 26 April 2015. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  10. Brown, Box (15 May 2017). Tetris: the games people play. OCLC 928492029. Retrieved 15 May 2017 – via Open WorldCat.
  11. "Book Review". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
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