Chester Brown
Paperback | Pages: 198 pages Rating: 3.92 | 1344 Users | 124 Reviews
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| Original Title: | ED The Happy Clown (A Yummy Fur Book) |
| ISBN: | 0921451040 (ISBN13: 9780921451044) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee for Best Graphic Album—Reprint (2013) |
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A LONG-OUT-OF-PRINT CLASIC BY A MASTER OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the muchlauded Paying for It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking Ed the Happy Clown, revealing a macabre universe of parallel dimensions. Thanks to its wholly original yet disturbing story lines, Ed set the stage for Brown to become a world-renowned cartoonist.
Ed the Happy Clown 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.
The intimate, tangled world of Ed the Happy Clown 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.
Ed the Happy Clown 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.
The intimate, tangled world of Ed the Happy Clown 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.
Point Based On Books Ed the Happy Clown (A Yummy Fur Book)
| Title | : | Ed the Happy Clown (A Yummy Fur Book) |
| Author | : | Chester Brown |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 198 pages |
| Published | : | 1989 by Vortex Comics |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fiction. Humor |
Rating Based On Books Ed the Happy Clown (A Yummy Fur Book)
Ratings: 3.92 From 1344 Users | 124 ReviewsAppraise Based On Books Ed the Happy Clown (A Yummy Fur Book)
Disturbing, unique, and hilarious comic. Only book I know that asks: What if your bum was a doorway to an alternate dimension? This is an important question, and kudos to Mr. Brown for tackling it. The story also contains a vampire, a fellow who is not a werewolf, religious wackery, roving tribes of cannibalistic sewer pygmies, and a very presidential talking phallus. Oh, by the way, about Ed.. he ain't too happy. Poor little clown..Ed the Happy Clown reaches into the depths of depravity like no other comic I can really think of...and this is in a world where Prison Pit and The Squirrel Machine both comfortably exist. There were many times during the book when I looked up from what I was reading to talk to my girlfriend and then turned back to the page I was on, only to realize that I was, for example, in the middle of a scene where Ronald Reagan had become the vomiting head of someone else's penis, or a dead man's asshole
What a mess in a cesspool of fools- this is a FILTHY book that shines in its squalor and loses no translation to the American dollar!It's rife with an unctuous splattering of topics that offend "the masses" which ooze with quality in the tragedy and/or comedy that he imparts with such incendiary artillery.I've previously found Chess Moreno over-zealous AND tiresome- the type who is frustrating in his compulsion to "stir the pot" of society's rot and silly whatnot but it seems that he fresher
One of my favorite comics. It starts as a series of short improvisational stories, but Chester Brown eventually brings all of these elements together and creates a fascinating narrative. The extensive notes that Brown makes on the text give a lot of interesting context to the stories. I especially like his criticism of certain parts that he now finds immature or offensive.I had forgotten just how well the story is developed. He does a great job of tying all the silly beginnings together in a way
Well. That was weird.
So at one point, the eponymous clown winds up with Ronald Reagan's miniaturized head on the tip of his penis. The head apparently smothers to death during sex, but not to worry it has no lungs, it doesn't need air!This is an extremely weird tale, probably made weirder by Brown writing over a lot of years with different stylistic decisions and plot changes made as he went (the essay in the back gets into that) I liked it a lot better as it went along and became more cohesive. It reminds me of
I don't know what to say about this book other than it's weird, slightly disturbing (in a good interesting way and doesn't take long to read.It's better than other graphic novels I've tried to pick up as I actually managed to stay interested and only took and hour to read.
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