On CBC Arts, Brad Mackay takes another look at Ed the Happy Clown, the early and controversial work by Chester Brown — more famously known as the author of Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography. Mackay chats with current Canadian graphic novelists about the work and takes a look at the storm of controversy that surrounded its publication. “Ed managed to pull off a trifecta of outrage, freaking out distributors, printers and feminists. Brown’s cocktail of violence, nudity, profanity and scatological humour was taken by many outside of the comic world as snot-nosed juvenilia,” writes Mackay.
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