{"id":25517,"date":"2022-02-09T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=25517"},"modified":"2022-02-08T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T18:11:37","slug":"clumsy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2022\/02\/09\/clumsy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clumsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Jeffrey Brown<\/strong> (Top Shelf Productions)
\nISBN: 978-0-97135-976-5 (TPB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of Jeffrey Brown’s cartoon exploits you might understandably admit to a small degree of confusion. In 2012 he scored his first global best-seller with a hilarious spin on the soft and nurturing side of the Jedi experience in Darth Vader and Son<\/strong>, following up with equally charming and hilarious sequels Vader’s Little Princess<\/strong>, Star Wars: Jedi Academy<\/strong> and others. You’ll probably adore his latest treats – the Lucy & Andy Neanderthal<\/strong> series\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Before that, Jeffrey Brown was the sparkling wit who had crafted slyly satirical all-ages funny stuff for The Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror<\/strong>, Marvel’s Strange Tales <\/strong>and Incredible Change-Bots<\/strong> and similar visual venues.<\/p>\n

The original is yet another Jeffrey Brown: instigator and frequent star and stooge of such quirkily irresistible autobiographical Indy comics classics as Bighead<\/strong>, A Matter of Life<\/strong>, Little Things<\/strong>, Funny, Misshapen Body<\/strong>,Undeleted Scenes<\/strong> and the 4-volume \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Girlfriend Trilogy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – Unlikely<\/strong>, AEIOU<\/strong> and Every Girl is the End of the World For Me <\/strong>and opening shot Clumsy<\/strong>, \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Whichever Brown’s your preferred choice, he’s a cartoonist of rare insight and unflinching revelation who still makes you laugh out loud when not prompting you to offer a big consoling hug\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Brown was raised in Michigan but relocated to Chicago in 2000 to attend the School of the Arts Institute. He studied painting but before graduating switched to drawing comics. Clumsy<\/strong> was released in 2002, quickly becoming a surprise hit with fans and critics alike.<\/p>\n

The material is both delicious and agonising in its forthright simplicity: a sequence of non-chronological pictorial snippets and vignettes detailing in no particular order how a meek, frumpy, horny, inoffensively charming art-school boy meets a girl and tries to carry out a long-distance relationship.<\/p>\n

Every kid who’s gone to college, got a job or joined the services has been through this, and for every romance that makes it, there a million that don’t.<\/p>\n

Drawn in a deceptively Primitivist style with masterful staging, a sublime economy of phrase plus a breathtaking gift for generating in equal amounts belly-laughs and those poignant lump-in-throat moments we’ve all experienced and forever-after regretted, this is a skilful succession of stolen moments which establish one awful truth.<\/p>\n

We’ve all been there, done that and then hoarded those damned photos we can’t even look at any more\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

With titles like ‘My Last Night with Kristyn’<\/em>, ‘Don’t Touch Me’<\/em>, ‘I Draw her Naked’<\/em>, ‘I Farted’<\/em>, ‘But I Want to Make Love’<\/em> and ‘You Can Ask Me’<\/em>, a mosaic of universal joy and despair forms as we watch Jeff<\/em> and Theresa<\/em> meet, blossom, exult, dream, plan and part\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Packed with hearty joyous wonder and brimming with hilarious examples of that continual and seemingly tireless teen-lust us oldsters can barely remember now, let alone understand, Clumsy<\/strong> is a magical delight for anybody safely out of their Romeo & Juliet years and a lovely examination of what makes us human, hopeful and perhaps wistfully incorrigible\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\n\u00c2\u00a9 2002 Jeffrey Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jeffrey Brown (Top Shelf Productions) ISBN: 978-0-97135-976-5 (TPB\/Digital edition) If you’re a fan of Jeffrey Brown’s cartoon exploits you might understandably admit to a small degree of confusion. In 2012 he scored his first global best-seller with a hilarious spin on the soft and nurturing side of the Jedi experience in Darth Vader and … <\/p>\n

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