In a weird way, I have this Jeffrey Brown collection to thank for Overglued. I had the idea for this website/blog over a year ago but could never get motivated to start it. Fast forward to May 1st, 2010 aka Free Comic Book Day. Like most comic book fans, FCBD is a great day where you get to pick up some free comics and see lots of people excited about something you love. I decided to go to a comic book store I had never been to for FCBD, Cosmic Monkey in Portland, OR. After I got my free comics, I decided to look around at the rest of the store. It’s really nicely laid out with lots of space to move around which I like. As I came to the indie graphic novel section, I noticed a Jeffrey Brown book I had never seen before, Undeleted Scenes. I’m a big fan of Jeffrey Brown’s so this really threw me off. How could I not have heard about this coming out? Then I realized it was because I had been in a comic rut and hadn’t really kept up on the latest books for a while. Which in turn made motivated to finally get Overglued off the ground, and i did as you can see.
Undeleted Scenes is not a linear graphic novel (like Clumsy, Unlikely, or AEIOU), nor does it have a central theme (like Funny Misshapen Body). This is basically a Jeffrey Brown B-sides comic. Some are from smaller books of his such as Feeble Attempts, Minisulk, and the ever so popular Be a Man. Other comics are from various magazines, journals, and anthologies such as The Florida Review and McSweeney’s. For the Jeffrey Brown completist who’s thinking “I already have all this”, the book also contains eleven previously unpublished comics. My favorite story in the book that I had never seen before is called Pregnant Pause. It originally appeared in the anthology Galago and is about the experiences Jeffrey and his wife went through during the pregnancy and birth of their son. The fact that my girlfriend is currently in school to be a midwife may have had something to do with my enjoyment of it.
Overall, I think this is a great comic. For those who are unfamiliar to Jeffrey Brown’s work, this is a great intro to all of his different styles and topics he covers in his other graphic novels. For the die hard Jeffrey Brown fans, i’d still recommend this to you. You may have read a lot of it before, but the stuff you haven’t is worth it. Plus, it’s nice to have all of those small comics like Be a Man and Every Girl is the End of the World For Me collected in one book.
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