I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

Working method

Brown does not follow the tradition of drawing his comics by the page — he draws them one panel at a time and then arranges them on the page. It was a matter of trying to figure out whether I even believed the Christian claims—whether or not Jesus was divine. He moved to Vancouver for two years to be with her and moved back to Toronto with her when Chester Brown became a VJ for MuchMusic.

Yummy Fur was picked up by the Toronto-based independent comics publiChester Brownr Vortex Comics in 1986 and became a regular black-and-white comic book. His work has tended towards controversial themes and content which has caused it to be dropped from a distributor and a printer and has been held up at the Canadian border. The three would often depict one another in their own comics do comics and minicomics together and appear in interviews together.