Ed the Happy Clown: The Definitive Ed Book

(May 1992)

[Title Page] (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Reprints

• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #4 (April 1987) [the art, without logo or other matter, of the cover, with new Title Page information]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Steve Solomos (credited)

Letters

typeset

Introductory Pieces (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Indexer Notes

Chapter title page for "Introductory Pieces" section.

Ed the Happy Clown (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

Ed tries to do good things, but only bad things happen.

Reprints

• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #2 (July 1983)

Adventures in Science (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

• from Yummy Fur (Chester Brown (Tortured Canoe), 1983 series) #4 (September 1983)

Ed and the Beanstalk (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

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

Adventures in Science (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

Scientists find the face of Jesus on masking tape.

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Final two panels appear at top of first page of next story.

Crime and Punishment with Ed the Happy Clown (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Final two panels of previous story appear at top of first page of this story.

Adventures in Science (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

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

The Man Who Couldn't Stop (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

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

Ed the Happy Clown in Confinement (Table of Contents: 11)

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

Script

Chester Brown

Pencils

Chester Brown

Inks

Chester Brown

Letters

Chester Brown

Genre

satire-parody

Characters

Ed The Happy Clown

Synopsis

Ed gets his makeup wiped off and his head shaved.

Reprints

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

Chapter One: Adventures in Science (Table of Contents: 12)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Reprint page count includes title page.

Chapter Two (Table of Contents: 13)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #4 (April 1987) [original title: "Forgiven"]

Indexer Notes

Page count includes title page.

Chapter Three (Table of Contents: 14)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

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.

Reprints

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

Chapter Four (Table of Contents: 15)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #6 (August 1987) [original title: "Lost Beneath The Sewers Part One"]

Chapter Five (Table of Contents: 16)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Synopsis

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

Reprints

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

Chapter Six (Table of Contents: 17)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

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.

Reprints

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

Chapter Seven (Table of Contents: 18)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

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.

Reprints

• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #9 (March 1988) [original title: "Returning to the Way Things Are"]

Indexer Notes

Page count includes title page.

Chapter Eight (Table of Contents: 19)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Reprints

• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #10 (May 1988)

Chapter Nine (Table of Contents: 20)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

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.

Reprints

• from Yummy Fur (Vortex, 1986 series) #11 (July 1988)

Chapter Ten (Table of Contents: 21)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Indexer Notes

Adapted from the story that appeared in Yummy Fur #17 (1986 Series).

Chapter Eleven (Table of Contents: 22)

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

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

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.

Reprints

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

Chapter Twelve (Table of Contents: 23)

Ed the Happy Clown / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Chester Brown (credited)

Pencils

Chester Brown (credited)

Inks

Chester Brown (credited)

Letters

Chester Brown (credited)

Genre

satire-parody

Indexer Notes

Adapted from the story that originally appeared in Yummy Fur #17 (1986 Series), with new conclusion.