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1001 COMICS MINI-SITE
Even with 960 pages, I couldn't squeeze all the material I had into my book 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die. This mini-site is designed to supplement that book with updates, additional information and links... but obviously you'll still need a copy of the book!
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Paying For It
by Chester BrownOriginal publisher: Drawn & Quarterly (Canada)
First published: 2011
Reviewed by: Fiona Jerome
Genre:
Autobiographical,
Drama
Paying For It is a very enlightening book, as well as being entertaining. [Chester Brown ] is a very skilled artist in that way. - Robert Crumb
Chester Brown is perhaps the most transparent, honest and relevant voice remaining in contempoarary comics, and this is, to my mind, his most powerful and affacting work to date. Paying For It explores life in the world’s oldest customer-base, and does so with heart, intelligence, and a complete lack of sentiment or self-justification. Rewarding repeated readings, this book will love you a long time. - Alan Moore
I’ve loved Chester Brown’s work since the early days of Yummy Fur. He started out as a remarkable cartoonist telling strange stories that slowly became, over time, increasingly personal. Paying For It is as personal as you can get. It’s a clear-eyed, not-even-slightly-erotic, compulsively readable, sometimes painfully honest account of his time, reasons and experiences paying for sex. I learned things about Chester from reading this, and I learned things about sex-workers, and about the world, and, oddly, I think I learned things about myself. The argument about when or whether comics had grown up ended when people started making comics for grown-ups. This is one of them. Paying For It is the kind of book that will engage your mind and force you to think about things in ways you may never have done before. Chester would probably like that. And if you find yourself arguing with the page, or with the author’s notes, I think Chester would probably like that too. - Neil Gaiman
Links:Drawn & Quarterly
