Box Brown Explained

Birth Name:	Brian Brown
Cartoonist:	y
Publisher:	y
Notable Works:	André the Giant: Life and Legend Retrofit Comics
Awards:	Two Ignatz Awards, 2011Eisner Award, 2019

Brian "Box" Brown (born 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]

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

• 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)
• (First Second, 2016)^{[9] [10]}
• Powerman (Kilgore Books, 2016)
• Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman (First Second, 2016).^[11]
• (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)

External links

• • Retrofit Comics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Box Brown / Top Shelf 2.0 . Topshelfcomix.com . October 2, 2011.
2. Web site: Interview: Box Brown's Excellent Adventure . Newsarama . April 2, 2009 . October 2, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121015164410/http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/04/02/interview-box-browns-excellent-adventure/ . October 15, 2012 .
3. Web site: Retrofit Comics: The Return of the Alt-comic Floppy . Kickstarter. July 25, 2011 . August 2, 2013.
4. Web site: Retrofit Comics has arrived! . Comic Book Resources . September 13, 2011 . October 2, 2011.
5. Web site: Best Sellers . The New York Times website . June 1, 2014 . September 8, 2014.
6. Web site: Eisner Awards: The Complete Winners List. The Hollywood Reporter. September 23, 2019. April 3, 2022.
7. News: Legalization Nation: A provocative cannabis comic for the weed-curious. Elissa Esher. San Francisco Chronicle. January 7, 2022.
8. News: Editor and Publisher. New syndication options for illustrators . June 16, 2022 .
9. Web site: Exclusive: Box Brown Pieces Together the Story of TETRIS – Nerdist. April 26, 2015. May 15, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20161110043539/http://nerdist.com/exclusive-box-brown-pieces-together-the-story-of-tetris/. November 10, 2016. dead.
10. Book: Brown, Box. Tetris: the games people play. May 15, 2017. 928492029. May 15, 2017. Open WorldCat.
11. Web site: Book Review. Publishers Weekly. February 12, 2018.