“You Want To Do A Feature Story About Who Doing What!?”

I'm not sure that I could have convinced the newspaper editors for whom I worked 20 years ago to let me write about Chester Brown and his new book Paying For It. It was a small, conservative city, and a paper that was much more likely to run pictures of the 4-H club on the lifestyle page than it was challenging meet-the-author pieces. Judging by this profile of Brown and his work at National Post, however, those publications that can handle this kind of material will get terrific stories out of it: unique and engaging subject matter, some measure of controversy about both the subject matter itself and various positions taken, an extremely eloquent cartoonist with a world of witnesses happy to testify as to his talent and import. It should be interesting to see what gets written about this book and how well the various publications make use of this comments thread-filling opportunity.
 
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