{"product_id":"ed-the-happy-clown-9781770460751","title":"Ed the Happy Clown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA LONG-OUT-OF-PRINT CLASIC BY A MASTER OF UNDERGROUND COMICS \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author of the muchlauded \u003ci\u003ePaying for It \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLouis Riel\u003c\/i\u003e) began writing the cult classic comic book series \u003ci\u003eYummy Fur\u003c\/i\u003e. Within its pages, he serialized the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eEd the Happy Clown\u003c\/i\u003e, revealing a macabre universe of parallel dimensions. Thanks to its wholly original yet disturbing story lines, \u003ci\u003eEd \u003c\/i\u003eset the stage for Brown to become a world-renowned cartoonist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEd the Happy Clown \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe intimate, tangled world of \u003ci\u003eEd the Happy Clown \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChester Brown \u003c\/b\u003elives in Toronto, where he ran for Parliament in the general election as a member of the Libertarian Party of Canada. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003ePaying for It\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873968263442,"sku":"9781770460751","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9162da3d-4e41-4109-b71c-cd7f60d221d0.jpg?v=1737976972","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ed-the-happy-clown-9781770460751","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}