New Releases by Jeffrey Brown

At work, in sports, and in everyday life, you''re constantly surrounded by the pressures of competition. In The Competitive Edge,celebrated sports psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Brown offers principles you can use to guide your character towards victory. He shows how to become a legitimate winner every time you compete—regardless of whether you come out on top. Whether you compete against others in sports or business—or compete within yourself to achieve personal goals—the means by which you win tells the real story as to whether or not you are a champion. Teaches the reader to redefine victory and aggressively pursue it in every competitive situation. Demonstrates the importance of maintaining strong integrity and high character. Strategies for winning appropriate for court and field, workplace, and home. Illustrates the challenges, risks, and rewards involved in doing what is right through examples from real life, biblical history, media, and popular culture

Following Jeffrey Brown''s debut hit, Clumsy, Unlikely continues to explore the nature of relationships in this story of how Jeffrey Brown lost his virginity. A full-length graphic novel of excruciating detail and intimacy, drawn in an awkward style that both disarms the reader and heightens the emotional impact of the work.

"Jeffrey Brown is one of the best humorists in modern American comic book." -- Comic Book Bin Everyone needs something funny to stick in their pocket to read on the train, or on a lunch break, or in line at the DMV. This is that something. Jeffrey Brown sets aside the sappy sentimentality of his autobiographical comics to bring you this subtle and subversive, laugh-out-loud, giant-size, SMALL collection of gag cartoons.

"An unsparing portrait of male anxiety and twenty-something lassitude, all rendered in drawings that are too crude to be anything but expressive." -- Jeff Salamon, Austin American-Statesman "It seems Jeffrey Brown has been anointed Our Next Great Cartoonist."-- Mark David Nevins Autobiographical cartoonist Jeffrey Brown provides an epilogue to his Girlfriend "Trilogy,"detailing the day-by-day events of three week run in with five girls. Watch and be mesmerized by an ex coming back into the picture, a growing but poorly chosen crush, musings on the way friends come and go in life, and a realization that the end is never really the end.

"Jeffrey Brown''s work is not precious, broken-heart type stuff, but instead renders the terrific blanches and indelible happiness one can inflict upon another." -- Jennifer Przybylski, Rain Taxi "Brown is a consummate storyteller, with a mixture of believable dialogue that carries both wistful romance and casual cruelty blending with simple artwork that conveys a wide variety of emotions and actions."-- Randy Lander, The Fourth Rail Originally printed as a limited edition with hand drawn covers, Top Shelf presents the "final chapter"of Jeffrey Brown''s so-called Girlfriend Trilogy. AEIOU or Any Easy Intimacy continues to explore the subtleties of relationships explored in Clumsy and Unlikely, concentrating this time on the differences between knowing and loving someone, invoking the reader''s relationship with the book as a parallel to being involved with someone. The story is told with Brown''s trademark expressive drawings and juxtaposition of humor and heartache.

An anthology of comics on the subject of sex.

"Mr. Brown seems to understand perfectly the day-to-day rhythms of the modern ''young adult'' relationship. Unlikely, like his first book Clumsy, is pretty much impossible to put down." -- Daniel Clowes, creator of Ghost World, Art School Confidential, and Eightball "A million little brilliant and honest moments are sewn into the rough panels of Unlikely."-- Wil Moss, NewCity Chicago Following Jeffrey Brown''s debut hit, Clumsy, Unlikely continues to explore the nature of relationships in this story of how Jeffrey Brown lost his virginity. A full-length graphic novel of excruciating detail and intimacy, drawn in an awkward style that both disarms the reader and heightens the emotional impact of the work.

"''Not everything in here is true,'' it says in the indicia, but enough of it feels true that Brown''s well-earned reputation as one of today''s better autobiographical cartoonists is secure." -- Alan David Doane, Comic Book Galaxy Jeffrey Brown takes a break from books about girls for this humorous short story collection featuring fiction, gags and autobiography. Included are such gems as "My Brother Knows Kung Fu"and "Action Television Show."

u0096This pocket-sized volume is to The Transformers what Avenue Q is to Sesame Street -- a mocking, fawning, idiotic, adoring paean to a pop culture phenomenon inseparable from the artist''s person. Although allegory without substance, all action and no moral, it''s delightful fluff.u0094 -- Library Journal u0096It''s all wonderfully silly and, except for a few pungent expressions, genuinely childlike and playful, radiating an aura of being made up as it goes along. Just plain delightful.u0094 -- Booklist u0096Incredible Change-Bots manages to find the perfect balance between nostalgia and self-aware fun.u0094 -- MTV Splash Page u0096Robots shooting lasers is one thing. But add a well-placed u0095BEW BEW BDEW BEW'' and it''s magical... Incredible Change-Bots may look like it''s made for u0095boys'' who grew up in the 80''s. And it is. But it''s so much fun that everyone will appreciate it. u0094 -- Playback:STL u0096Brown is a master at lunkheadedly awesome sight gags and wordplay ... I found myself wiping away tears and laughing out loud in inappropriate public places more times than I would like to mention while reading this book.u0094 -- Ink 19 Far away in space, there is a planet populated by machines able to change from robot form to vehicle form --- the Incredible Change-Bots! Leaving their war-torn planet, the Change-Bots arrive on Earth, where their battle continues -- BUT AT WHAT COST?! Part parody, part nostalgic tribute, part moral fable, with Incredible Change-Bots Jeffrey Brown re-invents the shape-changing robot genre into a goofy action comedy that''s full of romance, melodrama, and epic battles! The first FULL-COLOR graphic novel from Jeffrey Brown is an all-ages friendly (only one guy and some robots die) explosion of sci-fi fun.