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Jeffrey Brown

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Born

in Grand Rapids, The United States

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http://www.jeffreybrowncomics.com

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Comics & Graphic Novels, Biographies & Memoirs, Humor

Influences

Chris Ware, Julie Doucet, Marvel Comics, Moebius

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June 2007

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Jeffrey Brown was born in 1975 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and grew up reading comic books with dreams of someday drawing them, only to abandon them and focus on becoming a 'fine artist.' While earning his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brown abandoned painting and began drawing comics with his first autobiographical book 'Clumsy' in 2001. Since then he's drawn a dozen books for publishers including TopShelf, Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, McSweeney's and Chronicle Books. Simon & Schuster published his latest graphic memoir 'Funny Misshapen Body.' In addition to directing an animated video for the band Death Cab For Cutie, Brown has had his work featured on NPR's 'This American Life' His art has been shown at gallerie ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 102,728 ratings · 10,237 reviews · 206 distinct works • Similar authors

	Darth Vader and Son 4.12 avg rating — 19,068 ratings — published 2001 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vader's Little Princess 4.08 avg rating — 12,161 ratings — published 2013 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Wars: Jedi Academy (Jedi Academy, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 11,373 ratings — published 2013 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Wars: Jedi Academy 2 - Return of the Padawan (Jedi Academy, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 5,348 ratings — published 2014 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clumsy 3.72 avg rating — 5,413 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Wars: Jedi Academy 3 - The Phantom Bully (Jedi Academy, #3) 4.36 avg rating — 3,668 ratings — published 2015 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodnight Darth Vader 3.92 avg rating — 3,292 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unlikely 3.92 avg rating — 3,288 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cats are Weird and More Observations 4.02 avg rating — 2,741 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations 4.07 avg rating — 2,082 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Okay, it's been something like four or five months since a blog post and I've been super bad about updating releases and events, but partially that's because of waiting for details, and partially because I've been too busy making comics, including finishing a new Star Wars book and working on my new middle grade series. Anyway, I've also got a snazzy new website redesign where I'll try to update s Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Jeffrey Brown

Star Wars: Darth Vader and Son (5 books)
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4.08 avg rating — 36,923 ratings

Jedi Academy (9 books)
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4.24 avg rating — 25,847 ratings

The Girlfriend Trilogy (3 books)
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3.79 avg rating — 11,106 ratings

Cat Books (2 books)
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4.04 avg rating — 4,822 ratings

Things are weird (3 books)
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3.88 avg rating — 3,861 ratings

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Movies (And Other Things)

by Shea Serrano

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Jeffrey said: " I'm really enjoying this book. It's funny. Nice bite sized distractions from the day to day, and a good mix of movies I know well and movies with titles I recognize but have never watched. Or movies I watched and after reading Shea Serrano's take I w ...more "

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The Cursed Frog & Other Modern Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups

by Jason Antoon

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Jeffrey said: " This is a fun little book that I picked up basically because it had a Renee French cover. It's made me laugh out loud a few times, I love it. ...more "

Jul 11, 2018 05:16PM · see review

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Jeffrey rated a book really liked it Making Art in the Twenty-First Century: How Writers, Musicians, and Others are Earning a Living—or Trying to—in the Digital Age by William Deresiewicz	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Only part way through this book, maybe hits a little too close to home. The one thing that sticks with me so far, though, is when Deresiewicz mentions a famous cartoon (Then a miracle occurs) to illustrate a point and add humor - yet fails to identify ...more
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Jeffrey rated a book it was amazing Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book is beautiful, thoughtfully touching, surprisingly funny, wholly relatable, and I love it.
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Jeffrey rated a book really liked it Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A really interesting book to get you thinking about how you think, but the most impactful insight for me are Grandin's thoughts on education, especially how standardized testing and other aspects of the current American educational system are actuall ...more
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“-Here's a pretty shell for you.

-Oh, thank you my baby.

-Look, here's another one!

-Thank you.

-Look at this pretty one!

-Thank you.

-Here's a REALLY pretty one.

-Um, thank you.

”
― Jeffrey Brown, Clumsy

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“I like the way you touch me."
"I like to touch you... That works out for us, huh?”
― Jeffrey Brown

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― Jeffrey Brown, Darth Vader and Son

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