![]() ![]() He’s also published work by veterans like James Kochalka, Steven “Ribs” Weissman, and Matt Madden. (I imagine Smith has also had some influence on what’s been chosen.) Brown has made it a point to publish work by up-and-coming talents from the world of self-publishing. Brown has fairly catholic tastes, ranging from esoteric comics-as-poetry to slice-of-life to big, dumb genre tales. Overall, the results have been of a fairly high quality, and quite varied in genre and approach. This was one of the early examples of a store deciding to publish its own comics. In 2013, he joined forces with the DC-area comics store, Big Planet Comics, which took on a lot of the costs and production work, allowing Brown (and BPC’s Jared Smith) to concentrate on other duties as publisher and tastemaker. By then, comics tended to be printed as minis or graphic novels, leaving Box Brown missing the heyday of the alt-comics comic book. Retrofit Comics began as a Kickstarter experiment in 2011. Rob Clough surveys the output of Retrofit Comics. ![]()
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