Ed the Happy Clown

Ed the Happy Clown

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<p><b>A LONG-OUT-OF-PRINT CLASIC BY A MASTER OF UNDERGROUND COMICS</b><br><b></b><br><b></b>In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the muchlauded <i>Paying for It </i>and <i>Louis Riel</i>) began writing the cult classic comic book series <i>Yummy Fur</i>. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking <i>Ed the Happy Clown</i>, revealing a macabre universe of parallel dimensions. Thanks to its wholly original yet disturbing story lines, <i>Ed </i>set the stage for Brown to become a world-renowned cartoonist. </p><p><i>Ed the Happy Clown </i>is a hallucinatory tale that functions simultaneously as a dark roller-coaster ride of criminal activity and a scathing condemnation of religious and political charlatanism. As the world around him devolves into madness, the eponymous Ed escapes variously from a jealous boyfriend, sewer monsters, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and a janitor with a Jesus complex. Brown leaves us wondering, with every twist of the plot, just how Ed will get out of this scrape. </p><p>The intimate, tangled world of <i>Ed the Happy Clown </i>is definitively presented here, repackaged with a new foreword by the author and an extensive notes section, and is, like every Brown book, astonishingly perceptive about the zeitgeist of its time.</p>