The Playboy

Chester Brown’s The Playboy is a single-issue autobiographical comic from Drawn & Quarterly that examines the author’s conflicted relationship with pornography during his adolescence. Brown combines candid personal reflection with a clean, understated line to explore themes of shame, guilt, and sexual awakening. First published in 1992, it stands as an early, starkly honest work from the acclaimed Canadian cartoonist, notable for its unflinching self-examination within the alternative-comics tradition.