Louis riel by chester brown5/7/2023 ![]() In these Gospels, Brown explored his own Catholicism and connection to Christ by portraying these stories in blackly comedic styles (peasants and disciples who pick their noses exuberantly, a filthy and furious John the Baptist, and an at turns, arrogant and compassionate Christ.) The rendering of these Bible stories began sometime in the middle of his work on Ed the Happy Clown and continued for 10 years or more.Brown followed Ed the Happy Clown with a series of smaller autobiographical stories, even drawing at least one story, “Showing Helder” about drawing an autobiographical story. Brown balanced these profane stories with straightforward interpretations of the Christian Gospels of Luke and then later, Mark. Ed the Happy Clown which was published as a graphic novel in 1989 and went on to win several awards. ![]() ![]() It was a black comedy, an understated monster epic, and vivid probing of a single creator’s subconscious through the perversions of many genres. Originally begun as a series of unrelated humorous comic pieces, Brown tied these individual strips together and continued it as a single, sprawling scatological adventure narrative involving pigmies and pigmy hunters, vampires, angels, saints, extra-dimensional travel, Frankenstein, and an other-world Ronald Reagan attached to the main character’s genitals. ![]() Chester Brown’s commercial career began in 1986 with Yummy Fur, a series of comic pamphlets featuring his ongoing story, Ed The Happy Clown. ![]()
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