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Bellen! creator, Box (née Brian) Brown was kind enough to send us a Hi-5. We missed getting Hi-5ed.

Check it out after the jump, and then go check out T-Shirts for Torsos and Everything Dies! too.

READ MORE1) What's the one thing you're most excited about right now (or in the near future)?
Well, I do have a wedding coming up in May 2011 and I AM excited about that but it's too far in the future to get really excited about it. Right now, I'm psyched about the new projects I'm working on. I have two new issues of my comic "Everything Dies" coming out this year and I'm about half way through a childrens book I'm illustrating. I AM for sure excited about that.

2) What are your two pieces of required reading or viewing (a.k.a. the books, sites, movies, museums, etc. you recommend the most)?
Ok, my favorite book-book of all time is Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. It's sci-fi but it will make you question your own existence more than anything else I've ever read. For those non-acquainted with comics I think the best required reading is to pick up one of the Best American Comics Anthologies from the past few years.

3) What three things have been inspiring you the most lately?
Rapture Ready Radio!! I've been doing a series of books about religion and this podcast is fanTAStic. It's a group of people who are strict bible literalists and they are anti- every other type of religion there is. Their amazing craziness is wholly entertaining to me.

4) Tell us four things about yourself (or anyone you find interesting).
1) I secretly am getting tired of my pen-name "Box" but I can't ever change it.
2) I have two cats whom I treat like little babies.
3) One of my guilty pleasures is watching 21 Jump St. on Netflix
4) I recently lost 8 pounds!


5) What five songs, albums, or comics are you listening to or reading right now?

Music AND Comics:

1) "18 Songs" by Bruce Springsteen: being from NJ Bruce Springsteen is a patron saint. This is a collection of unreleased tracks that contains the awesome "The Fever" which is a wholly awesome.
2) One Percent Press (http://onepercentpress.com/) simply the best mini-comics creators in the mini-comics business! It's not even fair to the rest of us.
3) Gropius by Tim Hensely and awesome collection of comics that look like Archie comics outwardly but are really just INCREDIBLY subversive.
4) The new Dr. Dog record "Shame, shame" the first single is about my neighborhood in Philly! Plus, these guys are the nicest.
5) "120 Days of Simon" by Simon Gardenfors. A Swedish comic about a dude that leaves his house and doesn't come back for 120 days. It's WILD!