Ed the Happy Clown

by Chester Brown

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"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"--Publisher.

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(I didn't read the Spanish version but it's the only photo that matched my edition.)
Ed The Happy Clown is grotesque, violent, and hilarious. If you like irreverent humor that doesn't try to make sense of itself outside the construct of the narrative then you'll dig this. It was my longest exposure to poop in a graphic novel and while shit jokes usually make me squeamish I could hang with Chester Brown on that one.
An exquisitely twisted series of comics originally published in 1980s and formed into a graphic novel here, with notes. Vampires, pygmies, clowns, scatology, other dimensions, Ronald Reagan. Just when you think it can't get weirder - it does.
Doubt there's much I can say about this that hasn't been said before. A bizarre and touching masterwork.
I very much appreciate the notes about the book's creation at the end, too. Fascinating (and inspiring) stuff.

This was a re-read, last time I just found it in a library. It's nice to have such a purty book to add to my own bookshelves.
Insane and awesome. What would we do if we discovered a small hole that lead into another dimension? Thats right... push all of the poo from our dimension through the hole. Like Charles Burns' comics this one will blow your mind. It is a story that could only be told in graphic novel format.
½
Weird for the sake of it, mostly. I prefer Brown's later work.
Ed on klovni, joka joutuu absurdeihin tilanteisiin mm. pygmien, vampyyrien ja toisen ulottuvuuden asukkien kanssa. Hänen penikseensä mm. kiinnittyy toisen ulottuvuuden presidentti Reaganin pää.
½

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Canonical title
Ed the Happy Clown
Original title
Ed the Happy Clown
Original publication date
1989; 2012
Disambiguation notice
There are 3 editions of Ed the Happy Clown, all different, which are combined here. The first, Ed The Happy Clown (a Yummy Fur book) (1989), collects Yummy Fur 1-12 and is incomplete. The second, The Definitive Ed the Happy C... (show all)lown (1992), adds a 17-page ending. The final version, Ed The Happy Clown (A graphic-novel) (2012) is similar to the 1992 version but adds an extra 10-page short story.

Do not combine any of these with individual issues of Yummy Fur or the 9-issue serialisation of Ed (2004).

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Graphic Novels & Comics
DDC/MDS
741.5Arts & recreationDrawing & decorative artsDrawingComic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
LCC
PN6733 .B76 .E3Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureComic books, strips, etc.
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6 — English, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish
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