The Playboy

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A memoir of shocking honesty by the graphic novelist behind the acclaimed comic Paying for It, this work was originally published in 1992 and showcases the prescience of the iconoclastic cartoonist. It chronicles Brown's adolescent sexuality and shame, focusing on his teenage obsession with Playboy while exploring the full storytelling capacity of comics. The narrative features a fifteen-year-old Chester visited by a time-traveling adult version of himself, who narrates the compulsion to purchase each issue of the magazine as it hits newsstands. More compelling than his obsession is his need to keep it secret, leading him to elaborate efforts to avoid detection by family and girlfriends. The comics that became this memoir first appeared in Brown's groundbreaking comic Yummy Fur over twenty years ago, yet the work's frankness feels avant-garde even today. True to his style, Brown employs no extra words, panels, or lines, conveying emotion and environment through precisely chosen moments. Fans of his later memoir are sure to appreciate this early autobiographical portrait of blazing honesty. The expanded reissue includes new appendixes and notes from the author.