"Some couples have a strange way of drawing closer together after they break up. That's certainly the case with two Canadian artists, musician and filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee and cartoonist Chester Brown. Technically, they only dated from 1992 to 1996, a few years before I got to know them. But in a quarter century of our friendship, it's been difficult for me to disentangle them from each other."
"ex-lovers, yes, but that doesn't quite capture their bond. I'd often see them at the same social events. If I met them separately they'd be full of news and updates about the other. The exact nature of their relationship was hard to pin down and a frequent source of conversation among mutual friends. Now the mystery of their coupledom is much easier to understand, thanks to Lee's new semi-autobiographical movie Paying For It, which is adapted from Brown's 2011 graphic memoir of the same title."
Sook-Yin Lee and Chester Brown dated from 1992 to 1996 but maintained a lasting, intertwined connection afterward. Lee is a musician and filmmaker and Brown is a cartoonist. Lee made a semi-autobiographical movie Paying For It adapted from Brown's 2011 graphic memoir of the same title. Brown's memoir recounts how the split led him to reject romantic love and purchase sex habitually. After the 1996 breakup they lived together in what they called an open relationship, but Brown remained celibate while Lee dated others. Brown first purchased sex in 1999 and the memoir presents sex in a clinical, detached manner.
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