Box Brown Quotes

United States, Cartoonist
1980

Box Brown (born Brian Brown 1980) is an Ignatz Award-winning American cartoonist whose first work was the online comic Bellen!. He was the winner of a 2011 Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing. Brown created a full-length graphic novel about the professional wrestler André the Giant called André the Giant: Life and Legend. In 2016, Brown published a book about the videogame Tetris called Tetris: The Games People Play through First Second Books. Brown's Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman was published by First Second in February 2018.

I'm a self trained, autodidactic artist, so all I was ever trying to do was to draw as realistically as possible - but that's what comes out, because I don't really know how to draw! I think when I draw characters, I'm able to reduce them down to little marks that capture the most distinct elements of them.

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- Trying
In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.

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- Life
- Up

When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.

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- World
- Morning
- Wrestling
Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

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- Life
- Real
- Perfect
I feel like there are a lot of closet wrestling fans out there.

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- Wrestling
Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.

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- Time
- Remember
- Wrestling
I think comics is a really good way to talk about skepticism and atheism and things like that... it was easy to tell those stories and, I think, helpful to some people to tell them in comic form. Using visuals makes it easier to break stuff down and makes it somewhat easier to understand.

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- People
- Good
There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.

Box Brown

I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.

Box Brown
I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.

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- Pretty
- Wrestling
I work pretty quickly. I'd probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out.

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- Work
- Pretty