Ed the Happy Clown #[nn]

(1989)

How This Foreword Got Written (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harvey Pekar

Pencils:

Chester Brown [as Chester]

Inks:

Chester Brown [as Chester]

Letters:

Chester Brown [as Chester]

Content Information

Genre:

biography

Characters:

Harvey Pekar; Chester Brown; Man with Ponytail; Bill Marks; Zany Doctor

Synopsis:

A history of Harvey Pekar and Chester Brown meeting each other.

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• in The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991 series) #[nn] (September 1991)

Keywords:

autobiography

Indexer Notes

Chester draws himself as a bunny.

Author's Preface (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Synopsis:

How Chester Brown came to publishing comics.

Indexer Notes

States that "the first Ed story and the first Adventures in Science story were drawn before I started Yummy Fur. Chapter One and the rest of the stories in the Introductory Pieces section were drawn for the Yummy Fur mini comic and Chapter Two and up were drawn for the Vortex issues."

Introductory Pieces (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown; Frankenstein's Monster

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #5 ([1984?]) [as "Introductory Pieces"]

Ed the Happy Clown (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown

Synopsis:

Ed tries to help out, but everything goes wrong.

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #2 ([Fall 1983])

Keywords:

adult

Adventures in Science (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Synopsis:

A professor and his assistants study the masturbation techniques of giant squids.

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #4 ([1984?])

Keywords:

adult

Ed and the Beanstalk (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Jack; Ed; Frankenstein's monster [noted as Frankenstein]; Christian; Tim

Synopsis:

Satire of Jack and the Beanstalk [English fairy tale].

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #5 ([1984?])

Keywords:

adult

Adventures is Science (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 2.33 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Synopsis:

Scientists find the face of Jesus on masking tape.

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #6 ([1984?])

Keywords:

adult

Crime and Punishment with Ed the Happy Clown (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 3.66 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown; Chet Doodley

Synopsis:

Chet Doodley loses his hand and Ed the Happy Clown goes to jail.

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #6 ([1984?])

Keywords:

adult

Adventures in Science (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Synopsis:

A scientist demonstrates the difference between an earthworm and a piano.

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #7 ([September 1985])

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

In Yummy Fur (Chester Brown, 1983 series) #7, last panel is printed as-is with "Tortured Canoe" in the address, in Ed the Happy Clown (Vortex, 1989 series) #nn, the address is simply "Toronto Ontario".

The Man Who Couldn't Stop (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Synopsis:

A man sitting on a toilet just can't stop.

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #7 ([September 1985])

Keywords:

adult

Ed the Happy Clown in Confinement (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown

Synopsis:

Ed gets his makeup wiped off and his head shaved.

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #7 ([September 1985])

Keywords:

adult

Chapter One (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown

Synopsis:

The man who couldn't stop is put in jail and accidentally helps everyone break out.

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• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #7 ([September 1985]) [Originally titled "Adventures in Science"]

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

Reprint has slightly different formatting for first page than original. Also first page includes image from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown, 1983 series) #7's cover of a woman being attacked by a werewolf.

Chapter Two (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Synopsis:

Mary and the baby Jesus, with Jesus holding a severed hand.

Reprints:

• in Ed the Happy Clown (Drawn & Quarterly, 2005 series) #2 (May 2005)
• from promotional material from around the time that the original issue was published (1987) ?

Indexer Notes

Dated "20.12.87"

Chapter Two (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Chet Doodley; Ed the Happy Clown

Synopsis:

Chet remembers stories about St. Justin and follows Ed to the bookstore.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #4

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

In Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #4, panel showing masterbation was censored. Here it is shown.

Chapter Three (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown; Marcy; Cirel

Synopsis:

Cirel takes Ed out to the woods. Chet leaves Josie out in the woods. Pygmies take both Ed and Josie down to the sewers.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #5 (June 1987)

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

First panel deleted in reprint (warning to the reader that this story includes adult content, with picture of knife stabbing a table). Last panel also slightly re-drawn (omitting "Next issue...").

Chapter Four (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown; Chet; Annie; Josie

Synopsis:

The pygmy hunters go out hunting. Josie meets Annie, Chet's dead sister. Josie gets killed again.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #6

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

First page redrawn (small pictures of Josie and Ed taken out). Last panel taken out (Chester Brown as a bunny saying the story is too long and has to be continued). 2nd last panel redrawn to cover last panel being missing.

Chapter Five (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

The Professor; President Reagan; Nancy Reagan;

Synopsis:

Dimension X is found and President Reagan's head gets stuck in it.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #7 (1987)

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

First and last panels slightly redrawn for reprint.

Chapter Six (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown; Josie; Ronald Reagan; The Professor

Synopsis:

Ed and Josie are lost beneath the sewers. Josie gets shot. The Professor and Ronald Reagan meet. Ed goes on the Adventures In Science TV Show.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #8 (November 1987)

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

Reformatted from the original publication. Title page to story is from cover of Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #8. First panel of reprint taken from detail of first page of original story. All panels have been shifted down the page and the last panel of the story ("Next Issue...") has been omitted.

Chapter Seven (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #7 (1987)

Indexer Notes

Reprints cover without "graphitti".

Chapter Seven (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown; The Professor

Synopsis:

Ed and the Professor appear on Good Morning Canada. The Adventures In Science people find out everyone from the Professor's dimension are homosexual and they kill him.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #9

Keywords:

adult

Chapter Eight (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Quincy and Quincy, Vampire Killers; Josie; Ed the Happy Clown

Synopsis:

Josie finds out she's a vampire and goes back into her body. The Vampire Killers kill the Pygmy hunter. Ed and Josie escape from the Adventures in Science building.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #10 (May 1988) [Originally titled "Destroy All Vampires"]

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

First panel of story modified to read "Chapter Eight" instead of "Destroy All Vampires"

Chapter Nine (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown; Chet; Josie; Brian Mulroney

Synopsis:

Josie hunts down Chet at the hospital so she can have sex with him and then kill him. She does this so he will go to Hell. Ed talks to his penis.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #11 (July 1988) [Originally titled "How He Went To Hell"]

Keywords:

adult

Indexer Notes

Title page image is similar to the background of the cover of Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #11.

Chapter Ten (Table of Contents)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Chester Brown

Pencils:

Chester Brown

Inks:

Chester Brown

Letters:

Chester Brown

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Ed the Happy Clown; Bick; Mrs. Backman; Gerry

Synopsis:

Bick and Ed get their penis's switched. Mrs. Backman brings Ed home from the hospital thinking it is her husband. Gerry tells the RCMP that he's seen Ed. The RCMP come and take away Bick.

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• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #12 ([September 1988])

Keywords:

adult

["a landmark in Canadian comics..."] (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Colors:

?

Letters:

Chester Brown

Indexer Notes

Photo of Chester Brown with reviews of the book.