He currently lives in Chicago with his wife Jennifer and their son Oscar.Īlthough Jeffery Brown's Goodnight Darth Vader features an especially for die-hard Star Wars aficionados likely delightful multitude of small snippets of related movie scenarios and trivia (accompanied by fun and entertainingly imaginative yet still realistic to the Star Wars movies illustrations) I cannot really claim that I have found the so-called bedtime story Darth Vader tells to young Luke and Leia (about various Star Wars characters making their preparations for bedtime and sleeping) all that fun and endearing on a personal reading pleasure level (mostly I guess because I had not really wanted a Goodnight Moon type of tale, but was actually more expecting to encounter in Goodnight Darth Vader episodes and/or even a distinct storyline of author/illustrator Jeffery Brown depicting and portraying Darth Vader trying to get his twins, trying to get Luke and Leia to go to bed and how they try to squirm out of this, and therefore not simply an illustrated bedtime story told by Darth Vader to his children in which neither they nor he really appear all that much except at the very beginning and at the very end). Jeffrey's work has also appeared in the Best American Comics series and received the Ignatz Award in 2003 for 'Outstanding Minicomic.' Simon & Schuster published his latest graphic memoir 'Funny Misshapen Body.' In addition to directing an animated video for the band Death Cab For Cutie, Brown has had his work featured on NPR's 'This American Life' His art has been shown at galleries in New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and Paris.

Since then he's drawn a dozen books for publishers including TopShelf, Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, McSweeney's and Chronicle Books. Jeffrey Brown was born in 1975 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and grew up reading comic books with dreams of someday drawing them, only to abandon them and focus on becoming a 'fine artist.' While earning his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brown abandoned painting and began drawing comics with his first autobiographical book 'Clumsy' in 2001.

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