Publishing History
The story was originally serialized as Fuck in Brown's Yummy Fur (issues #26-30) between October 1991 and April 1993. The panels were much more crowded on the page in Yummy Fur than in the eventual collected edition, in issue #30 continuing from the cover and onto the page page. When collected, Brown reformatted the panels on the pages, which resulted in a much higher page count, but the story was found to be more effective that way.
The story was the last of Brown's works from his much-acclaimed "autobio" period that started with the story Helder in Yummy Fur #19. Yummy Fur continued for two more issues before coming to an end as Brown started to publish Underwater under its own title.
When the story was originally collected in 1994 the pages were black behind all the panels, but when the new edition was released in 2002, the pages were changed to white. Asked why in 2007, Brown said, "I like austerity. The white background looks more austere to me." A two-page appendix of notes was also included in this edition, a trend in Brown's work since My Mom was a Schizophrenic.
In contrast with his earlier works, especially the highly-improvised Ed the Happy Clown, Brown says that in I Never Liked You "he was very little improvisation in I Never Liked You. It was quite planned out, even if I didn’t write a full script."
The book was dedicated to media personality Sook-Yin Lee, who was Brown's girlfriend from 1992 until 1996.
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