Little Things - by Jeffrey Brown (Paperback)

About the Book

Comics artist Brown presents evocative graphic short stories that deal with aspects of daily life--friendship, illness, work, jealousy--to show how the smallest and seemingly most insignificant parts of everyday existence can end up becoming the most meaningful.

Book Synopsis

A collection of funny, poignant, and autobiographical short stories, Little Things looks at the aspects of daily life -- friendship, illness, death, work, crushes, love, jealousy, and fatherhood -- we take for granted. As each story loops into others, Jeffrey Brown shows how the smallest andseemingly most insignificant parts of everyday life can end up becoming the most meaningful. Brown's first full-length autobiographical book in several years, Little Things is also his most impressive, touching, and true.

Review Quotes

"If I were Pippi Longstocking, Jeffrey Brown's Little Things is exactly the sort of treasure I'd plant in a hollow tree, as a day-making gift for a stranger, a friend, or anyone who needs convincing that there's magic in the mundane."

-- Ayun Halliday, creator of The East Village Inky and author of No Touch Monkey!

"Jeffrey Brown is one of my favorite graphic memoirists. And one of the funniest. Each book is like another glimpse into one of the best diaries anyone anywhere is keeping."

-- Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil

About the Author

Jeffrey Brown is the critically acclaimed author of Clumsy, Unlikely, AEIOU, I Am Going to be Small, Bighead, and Little Things. He has been featured in Best American Comics, McSweeney's, and Mome, as well as on This American Life.