The Playboy

The Playboy is a 1992 autobiographical graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, which deals with the author's obsession with Playboy Playmates, his desire to keep his collection hidden, and how it affected his ability to relate to women into adulthood.

The book was originally serialized in Brown's Yummy Fur. It forms part of his early-1990s autobiographical period, and was his first book-length comic to be conceived as a complete story. It was originally intended to be part of a longer work together with what became I Never Liked You, his next graphic novel, but found the larger story too complex for him to handle at once.

The story has attracted much praise and criticism. It was controversial for its graphic depiction of the adolescent Brown masturbating. Some saw it as a defense of pornography, while to others it seemed to condemn it.