
A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin
Mary is Justin Green's autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with
religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is a young Catholic battling all
the usual problems of adolescence?puberty, parents, and the fear that the
strange ray of energy emanating from his private parts will strike a picture
of the Virgin Mary. Deeply confessional, with artwork that veers wildly
between formalist and hallucinogenic, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
is the controversial masterpiece that invented the autobiographical graphic
novel.
?Justin Green he's out of his mind. I love every stroke of his nervous pen,
every tortured scratch he ever scrawled. He was among the top storytelling
artists of the first wave of ?underground" comics, a darkly humorous social
commentator, and the FIRST, absolutely the FIRST EVER cartoonist to draw
highly personal autobiographical comics. Binky Brown started many other
cartoonists along the same path, myself included. Few have come close to him
in revealing themselves in this medium. For me, there's nothing more
enjoyable than the confessions of a tortured soul, if the story is
well-told, entertaining, honest, and then funny on top of it. If that's what
you're looking for, and if you like it in comic book form, Justin Green is
the first and the best!"