M. K. Brown

M. K. Brown
BornMary K. Brown
Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Artist
Notable works
Dr. N!Godatu
Aunt Mary's Kitchen
Spouse(s)B. Kliban
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M. K. Brown is an American cartoonist and painter whose work has appeared in many publications, including National Lampoon (1972–1981),[1] Mother Jones, Wimmen's Comix, The New Yorker, Playboy, among others.[2] She has written several books, created animations for The Tracey Ullman Show, and was a contributing artist to the "comic jam" graphic novel The Narrative Corpse. She is also an accomplished painter with work in galleries and many private collections.

Lynda Barry, cartoonist of the comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, lists Brown one of her early influences.[3]

  1. ^ "M.K. Brown". Graphics Classics. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  2. ^ Kirby, Robert (2014). "Stranger Than Life: Cartoons and Comics 1970-2013 |". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books Inc. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  3. ^ Barry, Lynda. Blabber, Blabber, Blabber: Volume 1 of Everything (Drawn and Quarterly Comics and Graphic Novels 31 October 2011), p. 13, ISBN 1770460527; ISBN 978-1770460522: "By the time I graduated from high school I knew about bitter and sweet, but thanks to cartoonists like M.K. Brown, Gahan Wilson, and Ed Subitzky I also knew about weird and rare and hilarious ways of changing one into the other. These three cartoonists taught me to watch the people around me and listen to how they talk and to write down what they say. But I learned the most by copying their drawings, and these three were especially good teachers."