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Clumsy
- Paperback
- Edition: 2
- Author: Jeffrey Brown
- Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
- Release Date: April 2003
- ISBN-10: 0971359768
- ISBN-13: 9780971359765
- List Price: $10.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryClumsy is Jeffrey Brown's debut work Clumsy is the bittersweet story of a year long, long distance relationship, told through snippets of everyday life, drawn in a simple and elegantly awkward style that heightens the emotional impact and leaves you reminiscing about your own past love affairs. Oh, and it also has a lot of sex. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Worst of a series of bad books
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Uninteresting and overrated. Do not get this unless you are already familiar with Jeffrey Brown. I got all his stuff on a recommendation and it was all horrible. This book in particular is the worst.
A heart-warming tale of things happening day-to-day
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Jeffrey Brown's drawing is so uniquely "awful" that it just really stands out when shown among the works of other "well-trained" artists. That is exactly how I first noticed his work in one of McSweeney's Quarterly Concerns. I am not sure if they are intended to be, but Brown's total disregard to human anatomy (i.e., human arms or legs cannot be bent in certain ways, not to mention their lengths vary from page-to-page; sometimes I cannot help contrasting Brown's characters to octopuses, haha) makes the whole thing enjoyable purely as really poor drawings.
I must say, however, his style of drawing is so matching with his tale of unpretentious love and attendant uncertainties and, ultimately, loneliness, to the extent that the story cannot be told in a better way --- James Kochalka's review uses the word "frailty" to describe Brown's line and story, and I cannot agree more. It is really a nice break from the kind of unrealistic relationships portrayed in movies or novels. Brown's story does make you recall things from your past, especially those parts that were clumsy.
Jeff Brown Can't Draw, But I can't dance and women find me attractive
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Yeah, well maybe he can draw. His art is consistently pretty bad...But consistent and that is core here I think. The first book of his I read (which was this one) I hated. But for some reason I read it again. Maybe it is because it can be read in its entirety over two large bowls of Crispix cereal.
I picked up the other books in the "Girlfriend Trilogy". This I blamed on my wife, as I was happy she was so involved in this and termed it as "cute".
Things have changed however and now I accept my tastes for Jeff Brown. He has something to offer. The stories are cute, sure, but more to it than that. Jeffery has tapped on something core here with the realistic dialogue (which I am convinced he must have recorded). He has tapped on real shame and embarassment. He has also revealed that sure, these things are humanizing but to the indiviudal they are also very damaging.
More so, for his place in graphic lit, Jeffery is the real deal. He doens't distract by forcing some kind of false front in art, nor in script. The themes as well are very real and I think depending on your experiences with love you will find a different way to enjoy this. Give it a chance (or two). If you want cute though go buy a gretting card, if you want a person pick up this trilogy.
The lettering is terrible
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This book is okay, but the lettering is absolutely and completely terrible. I had to squint to read it, and strain. You wouldn't think that lettering alone could make or break a book, but it breaks this book. By terrible, I mean horrific. It makes the book unreadable.
They should recall all of the copies of this, and reprint it with better lettering. Then, I'll buy it and review it again.
disappointing
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sure, the art is rough but i didn't mind. that's on purpose, and to good effect. what i did care about was how repetitive the story got after a while. for the first 80 or so pages it was a beautiful and engaging growth of the two characters' love. up until then i would've given this 5 stars, actually. but then i needed some drama. some development. the author kept hinting at it but then pulling back. *Eventually* we get some but it's so long into the story (and comes on so unexpectedly) that by then i was getting sick of the characters and didn't care. the author needs to work on his overarching narrative because Clumsy ends up as almost a bunch of little vignettes. the time structure was unclear as well. there were some flashbacks and returns to present but it was hard to follow. overall, a disappointment to a promising start.
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