Clumsy is a VERY cute graphic novel depicting short little segments of moments of a new relationship between Theresa and Jeff. The idea of this book reminded me a lot of Little Moments of Love by Catana Chetwynd or Soppy by Philippa Rice. And I loved both of those books! The only thing I didn't like so much about this one is that I thought because the drawings were more sketch like drawings, and his handwriting was kind of chicken scratchy lol, it was kind of hard to read. Sometimes I never ende...

I stopped reading after approximately the first thirty pages. Maybe I am not the proper audience for this kind of comics (although I should be able to connect because of the topic of long distance relationships), but the personal story did not catch me and the comics, while basically the same cute as some others (like for example Sarah Andersen's work), they did not seem that well paced (or maybe it was something else, but they just did not feel right).

I just don't get it. Terribly drawn, terribly boring, terribly repetitive. Take your long distance love story and shove it. I could not care less.

If there's High Church and Low Church for the graphics half of graphic novels, this book is the leaky shack of the First Antioch Free Will Baptist Church in BFE, Alabama. That's fine by me, I'm in this genre for the novel half, and I think I tend Low Church anyway. The subject matter drew me in to reading this, as I enjoy reading about blossoming relationships going bad and sad, as one does. Melancholic Low Church then, sounds promising. But it's all really banal, there's little evidence of any

Jeffrey Brown's crude artistic style is certainly an acquired taste, and many may not get past his drawings. However, those willing to delve into his comics will find that his style coincides nicely with the intensely personal nature of his stories. Brown, in both his art and his writing, not only brings himself to a level at which the reader can relate to him (or even, perhaps, look down on him), but uses his unique storytelling style to offer what seems like a completely honest and exposed acc...

Yet more evidence that I have a heart of stone. The drawings are supposed to be movingly naive, but in fact they're just crap.

Story about a couple who have sex. And more sex. And then some more sex. Sex in the shower. Sex at the beach. They have sex everywhere and all the time. It lost its novelty almost from the beginning. There is only so much sex you can see, especially when the illustrations suck and the two people involved could both use a good wax job. Both are too clingy and emotionally needy of each other. If you're looking for plot, there's not much of one. If you're looking for sex scenes, there's an overload...

This book should come with the warning: Read this only if you have a lover and he/she is lying beside you (preferably holding you) or else you will feel like a tragic loser whose heart has just broken (again).

I liked this book. The ending make me feel emotional.A nice, calm book.

I think it would have taken a fair amount of courage to create this, there is so much honesty as Jeffrey reveals the love, pain and joy he shares with his girlfriend Theresa. No details are spared in the small book and it shows the good and the bad. This can be annoying at times as Jeffrey's insecurities and neediness gets frustrating. Because Jeffrey does this you know he has created a story true to himself and this where you appreciate and enjoy Clumsy, knowing that it has come from deep insid...

I didn't rate this so low because of the naive drawing style. There are great examples of artists who started out with similar styles who manage to be funny, insightful and touching (Julia Wertz comes to mind, even though by now her drawing style is far from naive). But "Clumsy" is just crude, the humor seems really outdated and at least for me the whole sex scenes were like schoolboy fantasies instead of meaningful glimpses into relationships. I felt embarrassed reading it because it's TMI all

Truly a horrible experience.As an avid connoisseur of all things comics, I can safely state that this is one of the worst comics I've ever read. I would only recommend it to people as an example of how to make the most atrocious book ever created.The art is poor and is uninteresting to look at. It doesn't even strike me as "intentionally lousy", but rather a series of sketches that had no effort put into it.*minor spoilers*Story-wise, it is also completely unengaging and cringe-worthy. It's a sa...

Clumsy is baldly intimate in a way that should be embarassing, but somehow isn't. It's the autobiographical story of a long-distance relationship, told in comic-style vignettes. Brown's artwork is both crude and nuanced; sometimes his drawings are barely better than stick figures, but their body language and faces are expressive nonetheless. He captures the bittersweetness of a failed relationship perfectly; I think everyone who reads this book finds something in it that is intensely familiar.

Polarized between trite and pervy, this cartoon failed to touch on anything in between. It holds very little value outside of the prurient interest of cartoon figures fucking. Here, simple is no more than stupid.

Better than Brown's other sex obsessed story, Unlikely, I still couldn't shake the feeling that I'd want to break up with this guy at about, I dunno, page 15?This should be required reading for most 14 year old boys as a primer on how NOT to act in a relationship: needy, clingy, mopey, passive-aggressive, co-dependent, Clumsy? Now I get it. I understand this is the story of his second relationship, but there's no insight that maturity might bring to some of the cringe worthy behavior. A little h...

Not dreadful. Maybe Brown has given us an accurate picture of young love. It reminded me quite a bit of my own first serious "relationship." Even so, i was not entertained in any way except for a couple vignettes that were surprisingly sexy despite their surface ugliness. I can't appreciate the drawings until somebody teaches me how. A cover blurb by Robert Kochalka (i think) says something like the frailty of Brown's lines perfectly represents the frailty of love. I would say instead that the e...

A bit more than 200 hundred pages detailing a relationship in all its bland, trite drama. He has low selfesteem and is a pathetic worm, and she has slightly higher selfesteem and eventually frees herself from his clammy wormy wrap, hence the extent of the drama. The scenes intend to caress the heart's emotion bone came off as vapid sentimentality, so obvious that the flutter in the chest bespoke disgust rather than sympathy. And while Brown's style is intentionally crude, I cannot help but see a...

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)The Chicago Public Library recently entered a partnership with online content provider Hoopla, which among other things means I suddenly have access to thousands of old comic books I've never read before, including most of the back catalog of Top Shelf, Dark Horse and Boom! Studios. And this also includes

The illustrations are by no means beautiful in the traditional sense, but beautiful because they are so artless and lack technique (or maybe that is his technique), which was deliberate, and it adds to the charm and authenticity of the book. I was amused, I felt awkward (Jeffrey Brown doesn't shy away from drawing unattractive people doing unattractive things; hairy legs, flabby middles and all). His honesty is very brave, and I enjoyed this book a lot. I would've laughed if I weren't at the boo...

This is pretty much a diary without the incognizant revelation. Lots of tiny scenes depicting a young couple having such a true-to-life relationship that there's no real narrative or development. They go out to eat and have sex and can't sleep and on and on. The characters are so one-dimensional that their eventual, hard-telegraphed breakup left me feeling cold, like they were strangers. Jeff is kind of a normal sad boy and Theresa is just a fairly standard girl. That's about all we get. Their r...