The Playboy: A Comic-Strip Memoir

Chester Brown's The Playboy is a single-issue, autobiographical comic-strip memoir published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2013. The book explores the artist's adolescent obsession with Playboy magazine and the complex feelings of shame, desire, and guilt that accompanied it. Brown, best known for his introspective and formally inventive work, renders this personal history in his signature clean, expressive linework. A quietly significant entry in the canon of confessional comics, it offers an unflinching look at the intersection of sexuality, religion, and coming-of-age.