Box Brown

It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you’ll see those brightly colored geometric shapes everywhere. You’ll see them in your dreams. Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it was an instant hit. Nintendo, Atari, Sega—game developers big and small all wanted Tetris. A bidding war was sparked, followed by clandestine trips to Moscow, backroom deals, innumerable miscommunications, and outright theft. In this graphic novel,New York Times–bestselling author Box Brown untangles this complex history and delves deep into the role games play in art, culture, and commerce. For the first time and in unparalleled detail, Tetris: The Games People Play tells the true story of the world’s most popular video game.

The Games People Play

Tetris

The glamorous, raucous, and ultimately tragic life of the beloved actor and wrestler Andre the Giant.

Life and Legend

Andre the Giant

Stories of science fiction and mental exploration from Box Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of Andre the Giant: Life and Legend. Lizard aliens! New Physics! Electromages! Wastelands! Star Warrior robots! Social media cults! Pizza!

An Entity Observes All Things

Box Brown is in known for his riveting comic biographies of pop culture icons. In his latest nonfiction graphic novel, he sets his sights on a timely topic: the racist legacy of cannabis legislation in America. But to get the whole story, you have start at the beginning-and we mean the very beginning. In 2000 BCE India, cannabis farmers believe that the plant was created by a celestial tug of war between gods and demons. Fast forward to 1518 CE Mexico, where Cortés introduces hemp farming during his violent colonial campaign. Over the centuries, locals secretly cultivate the plant for consumption. It eventually makes it way to the United States through the immigrant labor force, where it's shared with black laborers.It doesn't take American lawmakers long to decry cannabis as the vice of "inferior races." From the 19th century to the 21st, cannabis legislation in America and racism have been tenaciously linked. New York Times -bestselling author Box Brown delves deep into this complex history and offers a rich, entertaining, and throughly researched graphic essay.

The Illegalization of Weed in America

Cannabis

Comedian and performer Andy Kaufman’s resume was impressive—a popular role on the beloved sitcom Taxi, a high-profile stand-up career, and a surprisingly successful stint in professional wrestling. Although he was by all accounts a sensitive and thoughtful person, he’s ironically best remembered for his various contemptible personas, which were so committed and so convincing that all but his closest family and friends were completely taken in. Why would someone so gentle-natured and sensitive build an entire career seeking the hatred of his audience? What drives a performer to solicit that reaction? With the same nuance and sympathy with which he approached Andre the Giant in his 2014 biography, graphic novelist Box Brown's Is This Guy For Real? takes on the complex and often hilarious life of Andy Kaufman.

The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman

Is This Guy For Real?

O best-seller do NY Times Brian “Box" Brown é perito em trazer eventos históricos e culturais à vida de maneira divertida e informativa com seus livros. Autor de sucessos como CANNABIS: A ilegalização da maconha nos Estados Unidos e TETRIS: o jogo que mudou o mundo, ele agora vira sua lupa crítica e atenciosa para os anos 80 e estuda como o marketing para crianças da época moldou a mente dos adultos do agora.Fundamentado pelo advento da televisão e mega-potencializado pela era da desregulamentação que foram os anos 1980, as empresas de entretenimento e fábricas de brinquedo uniram forças pra dominar o psicológico de todas as crianças americanas. Mas quais são as consequências de superlotar um cérebro em desenvolvimento com o mesmo tipo de marketing utilizado na época do “terror vermelho”, o auge da propaganda anti-comunismo americana?Em O EFEITO HE-MAN, Box Brown mostra como a manipulação corporativa catapultou as action-figures musculosas e ultra-acessorizadas às alturas nos anos 80 e além. Ao jogar um holofote para cima de marcas amadas como He-man, Transformers, My Little Pony e até mesmo o próprio Mickey Mouse, essa história em quadrinhos documenta e expõe as nuances e mecanismos de um mundo sem lei e sem preocupação alguma que não o lucro.

O efeito he-man

Jouer le Jeu

Boom! Studios 2016 Summer Blast FCBD 2016 Edition

Roman Muradov

Picnic Ruined

Hang on to your diapies, babies! We’re teaming up with Nickelodeon for all-new Rugrats adventures featuring the most intrepid toddlers to ever bust out of a playpen! Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil have noticed something—they are being watched. Somehow their parents can see every little thing they can do. They’re going to have to find a way to have fun while avoiding the electronic eyes of the babycam!

Rugrats #1

Hang on to your diapies, babies! BOOM! Studio teams up with Nickelodeon to present all-new Rugrats adventures with the most intrepid toddlers to ever bust out of a playpen. Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil have noticed something—they are being watched. Somehow their parents can see every little thing they can do. They’re going to have to find a way to have fun while avoiding the electronic eyes of the babycam! Features an Angelica story by Pranas Naujokaitis (Laffy Meal, Adventure Time: Ice King). Collects issues #1-4.

Rugrats

Number 1

The second volume of Box Brown's anthology series, Number! This includes two new stories, "Sk8rh8r" and "Elroy Mirrors' Big Score." In "Sk8rh8r," 33-year-old Rose skateboards drunk to grab some delicious burgers and runs into both Buddy Bob and the police, while in "Elroy Mirrors' Big Score," Elroy tries to build his documentary film career while dealing with his more successful friends, the strange subjects of his films, and his direction in life.

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