Ed the Happy Clown

(Drawn and Quarterly, 2005)
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While living in a Toronto boarding house in the early eighties, Chester Brown (Louis Riel, I Never Really Liked You) began drawing a limp–looking clown's surreal adventures in a nameless cityscape. After some encouragement from his then–girlfriend, he bound his creations into eight–page mini–comics and sold them at odd locations in the city. These works became the nucleus for Yummy Fur, one of the groundbreaking comix anthologies of the eighties, and the clown’s adventures lived on in three separate printings (as of early 2005). Brown’s own notes explain how the comic started as a “random walk,“ and it shows as the Ed encounters beanstalks, broken bones and a brutal assault by flesh–eating pygmies (clown or rat flesh, they’re good with either).

— Joe Trela

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#2

May, 2005
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Chester Brown