M. K. Brown
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the funniest cartoonists of the last four decades, M.K. Brown has accumulated a body of work long savored by aficionados but never comprehensively collected ― until now. Stranger Than Life is the first retrospective collection of Brown's cartoons and comic strips from the National Lampoon from 1972-1981, as well as such other magazines as Mother Jones, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Playboy; and her comics from underground publications...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This collection is a career retrospective - and rediscovery - of the great female humor cartoonist M.K. Brown, whose work ran in both mainstream and underground venues, such as National Lampoon, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Wimmin's Comics and Twisted Sisters. Brown's cartoons combine a penchant for the absurd with the gimlet observational eye of Roz Chast. Brown satirizes suburban anxiety and ennui by turning it upside-down and sideways,...