Funny Misshapen Body: A Memoir
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Drawn with Brown's scratchy, spare, trademark style, Funny Misshapen Body resonates with true-to-life observations on love, fear, and ambition. Through his bare bones graphic style, he reveals his most embarrassing personal moments in raw, intimate detail -- including how he survived high school, binge drinking, mild drug experimentation, doomed friendships, and being diagnosed with Crohn's disease.
Ultimately coming to terms with his art and identity, Brown describes the ups and downs of his adolescence with understated simplicity, dark humor, and charm.
Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown is the critically acclaimed author of Clumsy, Unlikely, AEIOU, I Am Going to be Small, Bighead, and Little Things. He has been featured in Best American Comics, McSweeney's, and Mome, as well as on This American Life.
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Reviews for Funny Misshapen Body
26 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an amazing true story that I did not like putting down.
Now I want to read everything else Mr. Brown has created.
It shows the amazing things that happen when we don't give up. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5awesome
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Guy seems to think it's enough to just lead us through his boring life and banal struggles with his art,and not try to make them funny or charming. Occasionally some charm sneaks through despite itself, like his face when he eats ice chips or the biker with the Dutch-themed tattoos who comes in to buy wooden shoes. And a few of his experiences are out of the ordinary (=interesting), like when he gets Crohn's disease. But basically he comes across as one of those c-list nerds that stand mopey and awkward at parties in their big shirts behind their more charismatic leaders.
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Funny Misshapen Body - Jeffrey Brown
ALSO BY JEFFREY BROWN
LITTLE THINGS
INCREDIBLE CHANGE-BOTS
CAT GETTING OUT OF A BAG
I AM GOING TO BE SMALL
EVERY GIRL IS THE END OF THE WORLD FOR ME
AEIOU: ANY EASY INTIMACY
BIGHEAD
UNLIKELY
CLUMSY
FUNNY MISSHAPEN BODY
JEFFREY BROWN
A TOUCHSTONE BOOK
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Copyright © 2009 by Jeffrey Brown
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First Touchstone trade paperback edition April 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-4947-5
ISBN-10: 1-4165-4947-1
eISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5929-3