Jeffrey Brown has made a career in comics and graphic novels by creating (or documenting) the extraordinary in the ordinary. Brown’s characters are sweet and vulnerable, while his drawing style is scribbled and homegrown. He has been professionally drawing comics for over 5 years, has received an Ignatz award for his mini-comic I’m Going To Be Small, and has been published through Top Shelf Comix, McSweeney’s, Buenaventura Press, and others. There is a short comic available online and a two-page spread in PRISM index #1 Print Edition.

Memo:

I grew up in a big city, but I remember my childhood being full of nature – my grandparents lived on a farm, and Michigan was full of woods to explore and cabins to visit. Since moving to Chicago it’s something I find myself missing more and more, so this Thanksgiving my family stayed at a cabin in Starved Rock State Park. My son is only two so hiking through the woods isn’t exactly practical… carrying a thirty pound child through the woods is one thing, and it’s another when that thirty pounds is twisting and struggling because he’s decided that he only wants mama to carry him. Still, we managed to walk through the woods a bit, without him wandering off into any canyons, and we saw a bald eagle fly right above us, and it didn’t swoop down and carry Oscar off, and I find myself hoping we still have some nature when Oscar is my age.

-Jeffrey

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