ROTHKO now available on Amazon Kindle!

 My book from last year "ROTHKO" is now available (in slightly altered format!) as both hard copy and eBook on Amazon Kindle!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1928087256?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

ORNETTE is here!

My graphic novel ORNETTE SPEAKS: a Cartoon Grammar is now available on Amazon Kindle as both hard copy and ebook! 
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0896Q1Q7K?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

It is also available on the huge online comics web platform, Amazon Comixology:

https://www.comixology.com/ORNETTE-SPEAKS-A-Cartoon-Grammar/digital-comic/880950?ref=cGFnZS92aWV3L2Rlc2t0b3AvZ3JpZExpc3QvbGlzdDMzNQ

Or, if you're in the Toronto area, please contact me and I 'd be happy to meet up and bring you a signed copy!

Here is a mini-doc about the making of ORNETTE SPEAKS from Winging It Productions:

"ROTHKO: A Comic Strip Biography" now available on Amazon Comixology!

My graphic novel, "ROTHKO: A Comic Strip Memoir" is now available on Amazon Comixology!

Live Stream Graphic Novel Reading Videos

In April 2020 I hosted a five-part series of graphic novel readings on my Facebook page.  In case you'd like to see this retrospective, plus the live premiere of "Ornette Speaks," here are the video links... each has an introduction with me (and sometimes family members) then the view of the book itself, along with music as follows:

- ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT (2016) -- Master's of Architecture thesis graphic novel, with music from Archie Shepp

- THE CLIFF (2017) -- a science fiction spiritual surrealist epic that took more than a decade to complete, with music from Eric Dolphy

- WHAT IS MEDITATION? (2018) -- a brief overview of meditation 'superheroes' like the Buddha, Lao Tzu and Nisargadatta, explaining how I got into meditation and live comics interviews with my two great living teachers Ed Muzika and Frederick Prack, with music from Don Cherry

- ROTHKO (2019) -- cartoon biography imagining the life of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko as a sort of Peanuts comic strip, with music from Thelonious Monk

- ORNETTE SPEAKS (2020) -- A stream of consciousness odyssey through words spoken by avantgarde saxophone genius and composer Ornette Coleman, with music by the man himself.  This is a virtual launch, with the hard copy of the book to come when the pandemic is over.  Produced with the kind assistance of a grant from the Toronto Arts Council!

"Winging it with Matthew Brown, Part 2: Three Men on a Couch"

Charles Hackbarth and Marc Cohen continue interviewing me for "Winging It." We take a magical mystery tour through my printed career, looking at the books from a Crad Kilodney cover in high school to ROTHKO last year... the YouTube link is below. Thanks guys!!

"Winging It with Matthew Brown: Chapter One, The Studio"

Charles Hackbarth and Marc Cohen just interviewed me for their series about artists and their work in Toronto, "Winging It." I love what they've done with Part One... the YouTube link is below. Part Two to follow. Thanks guys!!

TAC Grant for ORNETTE SPEAKS!

So thrilled I just found out the TAC (Toronto Arts Council) has approved a grant for my next book! "Ornette Speaks" is a graphic novel that adapts avantgarde jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)'s spoken words to comic book form. It will employ both photo-based and free-form spontaneous artwork to reflect Ornette's experimentation and innovation within which he celebrated the joy of musical improvisational art.