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| Among the more elite groups in cyberspace are those who can brag, “Sam Brown liked my title!”… The pictures… feature simple colors and sticklike figures in a distinctive style that is widely recognized and admired by online regulars. —--The New York Times |
| Exploding Dog is a sublime example of raw, unassuming talent… Sam’s drawings have been compared to haiku, which probably hits the mark closer than anything. You take a feeling, chop away the excess, and draw whatever is left. It sounds easy enough, but there are very few artists who can do it so effortlessly. —--Ironminds
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| Brown’s work continues to entertain and move even after a thousand pictures. He eloquently combines his attractive visual style, sense of fun, and sometimes sick humor with raw emotion… On explodingdog.com, Brown captures true postmodernist themes in a surprisingly effective and natural way. —--The MIT Tech |
His spare style lends a slightly distended look to his stick-figure characters, but his cartoons are funnier than anything you’ll find in the Sunday paper… Brown, who often courts the bizarre, follows in The Far Side tradition of confounding readers’ expectations.
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| Paper | 10 1/2 x 7 | 100 pgs. | ISBN: 1-932360-50-6 | List: $24.95 | 12/1/2004 |
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Featuring: Note: The remaining copies of Amazing Rain, at this time, are slightly shopworn
About the book: With the deceptively simple use of line of Matt Groening or James Thurber, the deft and elegant use of color of Chris Ware or Hergé, the cinematographic eye of Eric Drooker, and the combined sense of dark humor and nostalgic sadness of Edward Gorey, Brown has created a sparse and engrossing novella that stands beautifully, beckoningly outside of any of the established forms or conventions of the comic book or the graphic novel to date. Like a medieval tapestry of Nathaniel West’s Miss Lonelihearts drawn by Keith Haring on a Wacom tablet, Sam Brown weaves a story within a story, a fable entwined in a narrative of urban disenchantment and pastoral escape.
About the author: Sam Brown has been publishing his website, explodingdog.com, for four years. An online phenomenon with a cultishly devoted following, explodingdog.com receives over half a million unique visitors a month, which translates to about twelve million hits a month.
The site’s concept is simple: Sam Brown’s audience sends him suggestions for the titles of drawings via email; he makes drawings for a small fraction of those titles, and posts them on his site. (As he receives, on peak days, about a hundred title suggestions, it is understandable that an entire online discussion board has sprung up for disgruntled fans whose titles have not been picked.)
His work has been profiled in The New York Times, USA Today, The Houston Chronicle, The London Independent, The Sydney Morning Herald, Wired magazine, Ironminds magazine, as well as on CNN and Tech TV, among many others.
The author is a graduate of Hartford Art School. He is 26 years old and lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
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