I've become more of a planner and more of a thinker and planning out the whole book before I start sketching.
Over time, it's been hard to keep that kind of immediacy to the work. I think the biggest thing is when I started doing the autobiographical books, one of the things that I really wanted to get was not getting caught up and editing and overthinking and over planning with the idea that if I was just putting it out on the page directly it would express things more intimately. How has your process changed over the years? Your old work and your new work is pretty different. I would have to actually sit down and think about the memories I can no longer just have them be brought up by seeing the drawings.
There's still that kind of this artificial barrier there. I think the process of drawing them the first time created a distance from the memories already. I guess there are some times I remember specific drawings, there's particular panels that I remember struggling with how I wanted to draw them and for some reason it sticks in my brain It's almost like they became some kind of abstract mix of- it's not the real memory anymore but it's also not the drawing. When you're reading these comics, do you tend to remember when you were drawing them or when you're a living the experience? So it was interesting to kind of look at them fresh and see things I'd forgotten I'd drawn even though these are memories and drawings that I knew so well. Those books were such a like a big part of- I mean, they were all of my early career and even over the years when I switched to doing more Star Wars and kid's stuff, those books were always kind of a presence, but I didn't really look closely at them.
Jeffrey Brown: You know, it's very strange. Popverse: Jeffrey, you recently republished a collection of your original memoirs, how was it returning to that years later? In this interview, Popverse sat down with Brown to chat about the republication of his original graphic memoir, what it's like writing comedy for kids, and how his work has changed over the years. self publishing his first book Clumsy to penning bestsellers with his Star Wars picture books, Jedi Academy graphic novels, and kids comic Once Upon a Space-Time!, Brown has probably one of the most wide-ranging portfolios in the business. Starting his cartooning in the barest bones of independent publishing i.e. Jeffrey Brown has had a particularly eclectic career, even for a cartoonist.
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