24 pages
A5
Black and White zine w/colour covers.
N.B. MATURE READERS ONLY
£5.00
According to Mr Brown:
"A shopping list of the lost and desperate. A last-but-one will and testament to artistic futility. A spit in the face of The New Graphic Novel Orthodoxy. The difficult twelfth album nobody understands until twenty years later. And none of these things. "
Honestly. At times I could slap his bottom! And just when everyone though Browner Knowle had vanished . Vol. 2 number 1 was published in October 2023 and you can still order via the store. A 9 month wait between issues is not bad since each is self contained and some of the bigger publishers have been a year or more to bring out part of a series. Hey, I think he deserves this...
The Brian Bolland Delayed Comics Award 2024
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it is not delayed but this is my blog so there!
One thing you can expect is good, solid black and white work; look at the pages above and also the brickwork -all hand drawn mind you and Ole Slow Hand does good brick work (shaky on the art but superb at garden walls). And someone was noting the other day that they hate trying to draw tartan patterns so use an app that offers copy and paste for that. Seriously? Look how good it looks (yeah, too many "looks") hand drawn -buy a ruler!
Take a look at his web page and you can see more art -and some in colour, too!
As for the pages below; total manic insanity -just look at the insane faces. Last time I saw something like this was when Asda had a sale on alcohol. This is from Staring At The Rude Boys while below is from Endless. And if you are expecting any humour here....have you ever read an issue of Browner Knowle??!
All of Us Orphans will have you in stitches if you are on the right meds.
Somewhere In Another Room would be a black and white short directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring a young Tom Bell. Enigmatic ending.
Fires On The Horizon... again something that works nicely. But having written that Mr Brown was doing this before Morrissey was invented.
If you like independent comics, art and creators then there is no reason not to buy a copy and check it out. I mean..£5.00!!!
And if you cannot be bothered supporting creative talent well....
Wait!! You WANT to support independent creative talent? Well, latch your wallet onto this!
from
Browner-Knowle Vol. 2 #1 – Paul Ashley Brown Reflects on Identity, the Pandemic, Thatcherism and the Realities of the Comics Industry on Broken frontier
