Brian "Box" Brown (born Brian Brown in 1980) is an American

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whose first work was the online comic ''Bellen!''. He was awarded in 2011 a

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for the comic ''Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing''. In 2011, Brown started a

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fundraiser to create a new publisher called Retrofit Comics, with the goal of publishing 16 alternative

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s over 16 months. 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

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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. In 2019, his book Is ''This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman'' won the

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for Best Reality Based Work. He has a syndicated non-fiction comic strip, ''Legalization Nation''.

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'' (

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, 2014) * ''An Entity Observes All Things'' (Retrofit Comics, 2015) * '' Tetris: The Games People Play'' (

, 2016) * ''Powerman'' (Kilgore Books, 2016) * ''Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman'' (

, 2016). * '' Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America'' (

, 2019) * ''Child Star'' (

, 2020) * ''Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin'' (with Andrew S. Weiss,

, 2022)

References

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Retrofit Comics
1980 births Alternative cartoonists American comics artists American comics writers Living people {{US-comics-creator-stub