Box Brown

For the abolitionist, see Henry Box Brown.

Brian "Box" Brown (born 1980) is an American cartoonist whose first work was the online comic Bellen!^[1] He was awarded in 2011 a Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing.^[2]

Box Brown
Brown at the Miami Book Fair International, 2014
Born	Brian Brown 1980 (age 44–45)
Area(s)	Cartoonist, Publisher
Notable works	André the Giant: Life and Legend Retrofit Comics
Awards	Two Ignatz Awards, 2011 Eisner Award, 2019
www.boxbrown.com

In 2011, Brown started a Kickstarter fundraiser^[3] to create a new publisher called Retrofit Comics, with the goal of publishing 16 alternative comic books over 16 months.^[4] Since completing this goal, Retrofit Comics has continued to publish new comic books every month or two.

Brown created a full-length graphic novel about the professional wrestler André the Giant called André the Giant: Life and Legend. It debuted as ninth bestseller on the New York Times Bestseller List for Paperback Graphic Books and remained on the list for three weeks.^[5]

In 2019, his book Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Work.^[6]

He has a syndicated non-fiction comic strip, Legalization Nation.^[7][8]

Graphic novels

• Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing (Top Shelf, 2009)
• The Survivalist (Blank Slate, 2011)
• Number, Issues 1 & 2 (Retrofit / Big Planet Comics, 2014)
• André the Giant: Life and Legend (First Second, 2014)
• An Entity Observes All Things (Retrofit Comics, 2015)
• Tetris: The Games People Play (First Second, 2016)^[9][10]
• Powerman (Kilgore Books, 2016)
• Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman (First Second, 2016).^[11]
• Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America (First Second, 2019)
• Child Star (First Second, 2020)
• Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin (with Andrew S. Weiss, First Second, 2022)
• The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood (First Second, 2023)