Jeffrey Brown (born July 1975 ) is an American cartoonist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan .
22-793: Jeffrey Brown may refer to: Jeffrey Brown (cartoonist) (born 1975), American comic book writer and artist Jeffrey Brown (journalist) (born 1956), American journalist and former news anchor for the PBS Newshour Jeffrey Brown (politician) , former Republican state assemblyman in New York Jeffrey Brown (professor) (born 1968), American professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jeffrey D. Brown , American film and television director See also [ edit ] Jeff Brown (disambiguation) Geoffrey Brown (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
44-453: A copy. Brown lives in Chicago with his wife Jennifer, a former Marvel Comics business development executive, and their two sons. Brown's most popular works — Clumsy (2002; the story of a long-distance relationship), Unlikely (the story of how Brown lost his virginity ), and AEIOU (Any Easy Intimacy (Over Us)) — comprise the so-called "Girlfriend Trilogy" and its epilogue, Every Girl
66-592: A genre of their own, including, from the First World War , Ernst Jünger ( Storm of Steel ) and Frederic Manning 's Her Privates We . Memoirs documenting incarceration by Nazi Germany during the war include Primo Levi 's If This Is a Man , which covers his arrest as a member of the Italian Resistance Movement , followed by his life as a prisoner in Auschwitz ; and Elie Wiesel 's Night , which
88-527: A literary work of art or historical document, are emerging as a personal and family responsibility. The Association of Personal Historians was a trade association for professionals who assisted individuals, families, and organizations in documenting their life stories. It dissolved in 2017. With the expressed interest of preserving history through the eyes of those who lived it, some organizations work with potential memoirists to bring their work to fruition. The Veterans History Project , for example, compiles
110-405: A way to record and publish their own account of their public exploits. Authors included politicians or people in court society and were later joined by military leaders and businessmen. An exception to these models is Henry David Thoreau 's 1854 memoir Walden , which presents his experiences over the course of two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond . Twentieth-century war memoirs became
132-434: Is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiography since the late 20th century, the genre is differentiated in form, presenting a narrowed focus, usually a particular time phase in someone's life or career. A biography or autobiography tells
154-460: Is based on his life prior to and during his time in the Auschwitz, Buna Werke , and Buchenwald concentration camps. In the early 1990s, memoirs written by ordinary people experienced a sudden upsurge, as an increasing number of people realized that their ancestors' and their own stories were about to disappear, in part as a result of the opportunities and distractions of technological advances. At
176-700: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jeffrey Brown (cartoonist) After growing up in Grand Rapids , Michigan , Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute . By the time he finished his studies, Brown had abandoned painting and started drawing comics seriously. Brown specializes in personal and intimate works detailing moments in relationships. He writes and draws his comics in sketchbooks, and his drawing style mirrors
198-682: Is the End of the World For Me . More recently, his autobiographical work has included Little Things , and the memoirs Funny Misshapen Body and A Matter Of Life . His humorous works include Bighead (a super-hero parody), I Am Going To Be Small , Cat Getting Out Of A Bag , Kids Are Weird , and the graphic novel series Incredible Change-Bots . His work has been featured in MOME Summer 2005, Vol. 1, as well as Drawn & Quarterly Showcase , McSweeney's #13, and The Best American Comics 2007 . He
220-949: The Jedi Academy series, which are young-adult novels done in the mixed cartooning and diary style of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. He won an Ignatz Award in 2003 in the category of Outstanding Mini-Comic, for I Am Going To Be Small . James Kochalka has called Brown's Clumsy his "favorite graphic novel ever." Clumsy (2002) was originally self-published and was later published by Top Shelf Productions ; as of 2007, an estimated 20,000 copies have been printed, according to an interview with Brown in The Comics Journal . Brown won back-to-back Eisner Awards for Best Humor Publication, for Darth Vader And Son (2013) and Vader's Little Princess (2014). Brown has contributed to NPR 's This American Life (April 18, 2003). Brown directed
242-777: The Middle Ages , Geoffrey of Villehardouin , Jean de Joinville , and Philippe de Commines wrote memoirs, while the genre was represented toward the end of the Renaissance , through the works of Blaise de Montluc and Margaret of Valois , that she was the first woman to write her Memoirs in modern-style. Until the Age of Enlightenment encompassing the 17th and 18th centuries, works of memoir were written by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury ; François de La Rochefoucauld , Prince de Marcillac of France; and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon , who wrote Memoirs at his family's home at
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#1732876364762264-834: The animated music video for Death Cab for Cutie 's " Your Heart is an Empty Room " (April 11, 2006). He was featured in Bruce Parsons' documentary Drawing Between The Lines (2009). He illustrated the movie poster for the feature-length documentary Rabbit Fever (2009). He co-wrote the feature film, Save the Date (2012), with Egan Reich and Michael Mohan. The film, directed by Mohan, stars Lizzy Caplan , Alison Brie , Martin Starr , Geoffrey Arend , and Mark Webber . Memoir A memoir ( / ˈ m ɛ m . w ɑːr / ; from French mémoire [me.mwaʁ] , from Latin memoria 'memory, remembrance')
286-431: The castle of La Ferté-Vidame . While Saint-Simon was considered a writer possessing a high level of skill for narrative and character development, it was not until well after his death that his work as a memoirist was recognized, resulting in literary fame. Over the latter half of the 18th through the mid-20th century, memoirists generally included those who were noted within their chosen profession. These authors wrote as
308-568: The memoirs of those who have served in a branch of the United States Armed Forces – especially those who have seen active combat. Memoirs are usually understood to be factual accounts of people's lives, typically from their early years, and are derived from the French term mémoire , meaning "reminiscence" or "memory." However, some works, which may be called free memoirs, are less strictly bound to remembered facts: "One type of life story
330-602: The minutiae of everyday life, whatever humorous fiction he feels in the mood for, and a wide range of fiction subjects in his series Sulk . Brown has also created two series of books set in the Star Wars expanded universe (under the "Legends" & "Infinities" brands). In 2012, Brown told USA Today that Mark Alan Stamaty 's picture book Small in the Saddle influenced his own career and about subsequently meeting its author; Brown's girlfriend (and later his wife) had helped him find
352-481: The privacy of his study. This kind of memoir refers to the idea in ancient Greece and Rome , that memoirs were like "memos", or pieces of unfinished and unpublished writing, which a writer might use as a memory aid to make a more finished document later on. The Sarashina Nikki is an example of an early Japanese memoir, written in the Heian period . A genre of book writing, Nikki Bungaku , emerged during this time. In
374-407: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Brown&oldid=1064902369 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
396-402: The same time, psychology and other research began to show that familiarity with genealogy helps people find their place in the world and that life review helps people come to terms with their own past. With the advent of inexpensive digital book production in the first decade of the 21st century, the genre exploded. Memoirs written as a way to pass down a personal legacy, rather than as
418-471: The story "of a life", while a memoir often tells the story of a particular career, event, or time, such as touchstone moments and turning points in the author's life. The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist or a memorialist . Memoirs have been written since the ancient times, as shown by Julius Caesar 's Commentarii de Bello Gallico , also known as Commentaries on the Gallic Wars . In
440-513: The strain and awkwardness of the situations he depicts. His first self-published book, Clumsy (2002), appeared seemingly out of nowhere to grab attention from cartoonists and comics fans, alike. Brown wrote and drew Clumsy while at the School of the Art Institute. Established as a sensitive chronicler of bittersweet young-adult romance and nonsensical superhero parody, Brown's current direction remains split between autobiographical material, examining
462-689: The work, Caesar describes the battles that took place during the nine years that he spent fighting local armies in the Gallic Wars . His second memoir, Commentarii de Bello Civili (or Commentaries on the Civil War ) is an account of the events that took place between 49 and 48 BC in the civil war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Senate . The noted Libanius , teacher of rhetoric who lived between an estimated 314 and 394 AD, framed his life memoir as one of his literary orations , which were written to be read aloud in
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#1732876364762484-685: Was also featured in local newspapers such as the Chicago Reader and Newcity . Brown's "To Phoenix I'm Sorry I Missed You" was published in the Spring 2008 issue of The Florida Review . Brown has written and drawn seven books set in the Star Wars expanded universe. These include four humorous takes on Darth Vader as a hapless father to young Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia — Darth Vader and Son , Vader's Little Princess , Goodnight, Darth Vader , and Darth Vader and Friends — and three volumes in
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