| The Little Man: Short Strips 1980-1995 | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:ChesterBrownTheLittleMan2ndEdition2006.jpg) Cover to the 2nd edition (2006) | |
| Creator | Chester Brown |
| Date | 1998 |
| Page count | 271 pages |
| Publisher | Drawn & Quarterly |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | various |
| ISBN | 1-896597-16-5 (HC) 1-896597-13-0 (SC) 978-1-896-59713-3 (2nd ed. SC) |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | I Never Liked You |
| Followed by | Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography |
The Little Man: Short Strips 1980–1995 is a collection of short works by award-winning Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, published by Drawn & Quarterly in 1998. It collects most of Brown's non-graphic novel short works up to that point, with the notable exception of his incomplete adaptations of the Gospels.
The collection is especially notable for the cartoon essay My Mom was a Schizophrenic, which Cerebus creator Dave Sim says "was the piece that originally gave Chester the taste for comic-book journalism, the research, the annotations and all the headaches that go with it" in reference to the research-heavy Louis Riel which began soon after this collection appeared.[1]
This book also notably collects the stories Helder, Showing Helder, The Little Man and Danny's Story which, together with the graphic novels The Playboy and I Never Liked You make up the main portion of what is considered Brown's much-lauded autobio period. It was this group of works that was placed #38 on The Comics Journal's list of the 100 best comics of the century.[2]
- ^ Sim 2003, part 2.
- ^ The Comics Journal 1999.