Pages

Tuesday 19 September 2023

PENGUIN DETECTIVE: The Case of No Case is now available!


PENGUIN DETECTIVE IS NOW AVAILABLE!  185 pages at the affordable price of $15, contact me for your signed copy or order directly from Amazon!  


Six years in the making, Matthew Brown’s beloved character finally gets his own full-length adventure. PENGUIN DETECTIVE: The Case of No Case outlines how Poopsie the Penguin washes up on the shore of Moronto and, through a series of trials and travails, finally becomes a private detective.
Fitting between the chronologies of ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT and THE CLIFF, Matthew Brown pulls out all the stops to depict theme, character, plot, mood, noise, romance, repugnance, camaraderie, chaos, coffee and the search for meaningful employment—with artwork pushed to the next level.
Go penguin, go!










Wednesday 7 June 2023

off:LINE Comics Anthology - sumptuously physical

 


off:LINE Comics Anthology is here! Ambient Zero, my publishing imprint, is releasing its first full-colour book! 163 pages. Rich texture, glorious hues, available from Amazon or directly from the artists! This aggressive potpourri of ebullient comix comes from Canada and features boundary-pushing fine art, physics, confession, autobiography, hallucination, humour, abstraction, cuteness, sassiness and despair tempered by wonder. 



Collecting the first 3 issues of Ambient Zero's digital on:LINE Magazine, off:LINE exists as a sumptuously physical object. Published by Matthew Brown and Edited by Charles Hackbarth, Adam Reich and Naomi Reid, featuring fresh and vital stories by Matthew Brown, Terence Cheng, Marc Cohen, Chris Evitts, Claudio Ghirardo, Pat Glassel, Charles Hackbarth, Jennifer Herbert, Vince Mancuso, Dr. Minzz, Sandra Mizumoto-Posey, Adam Reich, Naomi Reid and Jack Ruttan.



FEATURING BRAND NEW INTERVIEWS WITH ADAM REICH, JENNIFER HERBERT, CLAUDIO GHIRARDO, CHRIS EVITTS and MARC COHEN.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0C6BT78JP/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i9

























Wednesday 22 February 2023

on:LINE Magazine #3 is here!

Excited, proud and happy to announce the launch of on:LINE Magazine #3, free digital comics anthology from Ambient Zero Publications!  Featuring work from Chris Evitts, Claudio Ghirardo, Pat Glassel , Charles Hackbarth, Jennifer Herbert, Vince Mancuso, Adam Reich and yours truly--Matthew Brown.  Download your free copy  from my Dropboxhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/ai9rq0horkbph3c/onLINE%20Magazine%20-%20Comics%20Anthology%20-%20issue3%20-%20Ambient%20Zero-%20Feb-23.pdf?dl=0

Thursday 15 December 2022

AUREL BAUH: EYE LENS is here!

 


A noir exploration of architecture, eros, tragedy, absurdity and beauty.



A fractured modernist memory narrative, eluding genocide and oppression by a hair's breadth.




Based on the pictures of brilliant photographer Aurel Bauh (born 1900 Bucharest, died 1964 Paris) who died unexpectedly and left his masterful, moody and avantgarde photos spread across Romania, France, Germany and Israel. He only published one book during his lifetime – “Bucharest”, a restrained and lyrical ode to the city of his birth less than two decades after WWII, released under the communist regime a few years before his death.



My new book features brush and ink drawings and text inspired by Aurel Bauh’s architectural shots, portraits, landscapes, folkloric reportage and nudes.

Available as both hard copy and eBook on Amazon!

Or, if you’d like a signed copy, please contact me and let me know!

Thursday 27 October 2022

New book coming soon - AUREL BAUH: EYE LENS

Starting next week, I’ll be posting from my new book – AUREL BAUH: EYE LENS, based on the pictures of brilliant photographer Aurel Bauh (born 1900 Bucharest, died 1964 Paris) who died unexpectedly and left his masterful, moody and avantgarde photos spread across Romania, France, Germany and Israel. He only published one book during his lifetime – “Bucharest”, a restrained and lyrical ode to the city of his birth less than two decades after WWII, released under the communist regime a few years before his death. My new book features brush and ink drawings and text inspired by Aurel Bauh’s architectural shots, portraits, landscapes, folkloric reportage and nudes. Only in the Instagram posts, I will also post the photos which inspired me.

Friday 15 July 2022

Matthew Brown Book Sale!

MATTHEW BROWN BOOK SALE! 


Original edition hard copies of ORNETTE SPEAKS, ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT, THE CLIFF, WHAT IS MEDITATION?, ROTHKO and DOESBURG available for very reasonable prices. Signed! Free rarity included with every purchase! Treat yourself to homecooked quests in comics form from a Toronto-born, world-traveled writer/artist with an uncompromising vision and a cute penguin. Message me if interested! Email: teacherintherye@hotmail.com



ORNETTE SPEAKS: Adapting the avantgarde saxophone genius's spoken words into a kaleidoscopic comics blowout. 


ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT: Lambastes the architectural education process, showcases the end of the world and the origin of the bagel. 



THE CLIFF: Epic story of Mutt Blue's estrangement from his home kingdom, descent into a mysterious world of lovers, friends and enemies, apprenticeship to detective Poopsie the Penguin and solution of a murder in Varanasi. 



WHAT IS MEDITATION? Chronicles the author's life before, during and after learning meditation and self-healing techniques. Runs through brief quirky bios of Buddha, Lao Tzu, modern masters and interviews two living meditation teachers in comics form. 



ROTHKO: A comic strip a-la-Peanuts about the depressive genius whose luminous "colour square" paintings emit the divine... but do they rescue us from melancholy? Plus some funny bits. 

Tuesday 22 March 2022

on:LINE Magazine Comics Anthology #2 is here!

Very excited to see the second issue of on:LINE Magazine come out, edited by Naomi Reid and Adam Reich and published by Ambient Zero Publications!  


Featuring hot new work by poetic, surreal, experimental, confessional, underground, hilarious, heartrending and talented comic book artists Naomi Reid, Adam Reich, Sandra Mizumoto Posey, Dr. Minzz, Vince Mancuso, Jennifer Herbert, Charles Hackbarth, Claudio Ghirardo and Matthew Brown! DOWNLOAD FOR FREE.