Ed the Happy Clown; the Defintive Ed Book by BROWN, Chester - 1992

Toronto, Canada: Vortex Comics, 1992. First Thus. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Graphic Novel: Trade Paperback A few cracks across spine, some rubbing to covers' edges, a few creases to covers and hinges.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.: Vortex Comics., 1992. Book. Illus. by CHESTER BROWN. GOOD+. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 222 pages (weight = 280 grams); "Jaw-dropping, uncensored, politico-religious, odyssey through a universe of humiliations, mutilations, symbolic & real esatrations, endless defecations, blood, guts, pus suckage, vampirism, cannibalism, incest & necrophilia." (The Village Voice).>> Minor cover creasing, top edge of front cover & first few pages top 1" bent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Vortex Comics, 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 216 pages. Slightly worn cover. ""Ed the Happy Clown is the title character of a comics work by Canadian cartoonist, Chester Brown. The dark, surreal and largely improvised story started with a series of unrelated short comics that Brown soon went on to tie together. Ed is a large-headed, childlike children's clown, who is subjected to one horrifying affliction after another. The story is a dark, humorous mix of genres which includes vampires, pygmy cannibals, Martians, Frankenstein's monster and others. Prominent is its use of scatological humour, nudity, sex, body horror, extreme graphic violence and potentially blasphemous religious imagery. Central to the plot are a man who cannot stop defecating; the head of a miniature Ronald Reagan attached to the head of the protagonist's penis; and a female vampire who seeks revenge on her adulterous lover who murdered her to escape his… Read More

Toronto: Vortex Comics, 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 216 pages. Slightly worn cover. ""Ed the Happy Clown is the title character of a comics work by Canadian cartoonist, Chester Brown. The dark, surreal and largely improvised story started with a series of unrelated short comics that Brown soon went on to tie together. Ed is a large-headed, childlike children's clown, who is subjected to one horrifying affliction after another. The story is a dark, humorous mix of genres which includes vampires, pygmy cannibals, Martians, Frankenstein's monster and others. Prominent is its use of scatological humour, nudity, sex, body horror, extreme graphic violence and potentially blasphemous religious imagery. Central to the plot are a man who cannot stop defecating; the head of a miniature Ronald Reagan attached to the head of the protagonist's penis; and a female vampire who seeks revenge on her adulterous lover who murdered her to escape his… Read More