I Never Liked You is a 1994 graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown. The story first ran between 1991 and 1993 in Brown’s comic book Yummy Fur. It is Brown’s last work of his early autobiographical period, after The Playboy in 1992.
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I Never Liked You is a graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown. The story first ran between 1991 and 1993 under the title Fuck, in issues #26–30 of Brown’s comic book Yummy Fur; published in book form by Drawn & Quarterly in 1994. It deals with the teenage Brown’s introversion and difficulty talking to others, especially members of the opposite sex. Brown established his reputation in the early alternative comics scene of the 1980s with the surreal, taboo-breaking Ed the Happy Clown. The book appeared amid the early 1990s trend in autobiographical alternative comics, and Brown was one of a prominent trio of Toronto-based autobiographical cartoonists, with Seth and Joe Matt. The artwork is amongst the simplest in Brown’s body of work, with some pages consist only of a single small panel. I Never L liked You was well received, and its influence can be found in the work of cartoonists such as Jeffrey Brown, Ariel Schrag and Anders Nilsen. It is Brown’s last work of his early autobiographical period, after The Playboy in 1992. The Playboy deals with Brown’s guilt over his teenage obsession with masturbating over pornography, and won a Harvey Award. It received criticism from those who saw it as objectifying women and glorifying pornography; Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner wrote to Brown voicing concern that Brown would feel such guilt in a post-sexual revolution world. Brown described himself as a \”nerdy teenager\” attracted to comic books from a young age, and sought a career in superhero comics, but was unsuccessful in finding work with Marvel or DC after graduating from high school.
He moved to Toronto and discovered underground comix and the small-press community. From 1983 he self-published a minicomic titled Yummy fur. From 1986 Toronto- based Vortex Comics began publishing Yummyfur. Brown began tentatively with a pair of short tales, and gradually became freer with his panel layouts and simpler in his artwork. He began to simplify his style, inspired by the example of his friend and fellow Toronto cartoonist Seth, and began to draw in a more simple style. He originally set the panels against black page backgrounds, which he replaced with white for an annotated \”New Definitive Edition\” in 2002. He is a thin, long-haired teenager who is awkward, introverted, and better able to express himself through drawing than speaking. He constantly and inexplicably turns away girls, even though he is interested in them and they in him. Except in his imagination, Chet has difficulty expressing affection even for his mother. Chet plays games such as hide-and-seek with the children in his neighbourhood. He has a crush on Carrie, his older sister, and invites him to wash her house each day. He fears he will be teased for being on a date, but he sits away from her when he spots boys from his school.
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