{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781770460751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.39w x 1.16d","brand":"Chester Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43361537294517,"sku":"9781770460751","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e5bac278-5baf-44fe-810f-583d318ebcbe.jpg?v=1701191714","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ed-the-happy-clown-9781770460751","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}