•
The Toilet Paper Revolt (1980) •
City Swine (1981) •
Walrus Blubber Sandwich (1981) •
Mars (1982) •
Bob Crosby and his Electric TV (1982) •
Dirk the Gerbil (1982) • ''Brad's Enlightenment'' (1984) •
Garbage Day (1984) •
My Old Neighborhood (1984) •
An Authentic Inuit Folk Song (1984) •
I Live in the Bottomless Pit (1984) •
Things to Avoid Stepping On (1985) •
Help Me Dear (1985) •
The Gourmets from Planet X (1986) •
A Late Night Snack (1986) •
An American Story (1986) •
The Twin (1986) •
Back to Obedience School (1986) •
Anti-Censorship Propaganda (1988) •
The Afternoon of March the 3rd (1988) •
Helder (1989) •
Showing "Helder" (1989) •
The Little Man (1991) •
The Weird Canadian Artist (1991) • ''
Danny's Story'' (1991) •
Knock Knock (1993) •
My Mom was a Schizophrenic (1995)
The Twin Adapted from a story from the
Gnostic text
Pistis Sophia.
Autobiographical Comics Between finishing
Ed the Happy Clown and starting
Underwater, Brown started on what's known as his
autobiographical period, in which he produced two graphic novels and a number of shorter works. The first of these was
Helder which appeared in
Yummy Fur #19.
Helder,
Showing Helder,
The Little Man and ''
Danny's Story'' are works from this period that are reproduced in this collection.
My Mom Was a Schizophrenic Originally appearing in
Underwater #4, Brown has said he wanted to write an
anti-psychiatry mini-comic in the style of a
Jack Chick pamphlet. He distributed "a couple hundred"
photocopies of the eight-pager, leaving them in telephone booths and bus shelters around
Toronto. Brown calls the strip an "essay". The strip is an anti-psychiatric tract that takes the stance that
schizophrenia is not a disease, but a way to label people "-- not by looking for signs of disease but by looking for socially unacceptable beliefs and behaviour." Brown's mother doesn't actually appear in the strip, nor is she directly talked about except briefly in the footnotes, although she appears in
The Playboy and
I Never Liked You. In
I Never Liked You she passes away in the hospital. Brown intended the strip to cover some of the ideas of
R. D. Laing and
Thomas Szasz. He first encountered the ideas that would provide the basis of the strip in Szasz's
Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry, which he came across in 1990. The strip is six pages, each laid out in a 9-panel grid, which "seems to be well suited for 'talking at the reader' stories", as it "really lets the author pack in the dialogue". It came complete with two pages of footnotes, which were expanded on in the collection. ==Publication history==