Ed the Happy Clown (2012)

Ed the Happy Clown, from Chester Brown's Yummy Fur minicomics, 1983 to 1985 Chester Brown began Yummy Fur in July 1983 as a tiny minicomic, the first printings with the price penciled on the cover and a rubber-stamped back page, a few hundred copies at a time. Those homemade issues grew the surreal, deeply rude Ed the Happy Clown story, and from 1986 Vortex reprinted them at full comic size after Seth persuaded its owner to take a chance. It is proof that a cheap handmade run can lead to a whole career. Read the 2012 Drawn & Quarterly edition, with Brown's own notes, and be ready for grotesque body horror and religious satire.