Each month, we choose a graphic novel to discuss at the store. Our graphic novel club is open to all! This month, come discuss Chester Brown's Ed the Happy Clown with
Drawn & Quarterly's Managing Editor Tracy Hurren! This is happening Wednesday, August 20th at 7 p.m. Refreshments will
be provided! Lively conversation will be had!
**There will be a 20% discount on Ed the Happy Clown from now until the book club meeting!**
Why you should be excited:
In the late 1980s, the idiosyncratic Chester Brown (author
of the much-lauded Paying For It and Louis Riel) began writing the cult
classic comic book series Yummy Fur. Within its pages, he serialized
the groundbreaking Ed the Happy Clown, revealing a macabre universe of
parallel dimensions. Thanks to its wholly original yet disturbing story
lines, Ed set the stage for Chester Brown to become a world-renowned
cartoonist. Ed the Happy Clown is 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.
The intimate, tangled world of Ed the Happy Clown is
definitively presented here, repackaged with a new foreword by the
author and an extensive notes section, and, as with every Brown book,
astonishingly perceptive about the zeitgeist of its time.