Yummy Fur (comics)

"Yummy Fur" is a comic book written by Chester Brown originally published as a mini-comic before independent comics publisher Vortex Comics picked it up. Later issues came out under Drawn and Quarterly. The earliest issues re-printed Chester Brown's mini-comics and featured a variety of surreal black humor stories (some of them partially based on and subverting mainstream comic book stories) which verged on pure horror. A continuing plot strand featured the hapless Ed the Happy Clown who underwent bizarre adventures filled with body horror, scatology and religious symbolism.

The comic book soon split itself between the Ed the Happy Clown stories and a serious, if unvarnished adaptation of the Gospel of Mark. After the conclusion of this, the Ed the Happy Clown stories finished, after which the comic, for the most part, concentrated on autobiographical comics work. The last few issues returned to a more "anything goes" format, with another Gospel adaptation, this time of another book and in a different style than previously.

Reprintings

The Ed the Happy Clown storyline has gotten reprinted in a number of formats since. The autobiography work has gotten reprinted as ' and "I Never Liked You", with ' collecting most of the remainder. Brown decided not to reprint the early "Yummy Fur" stories which had borrowed from other works. The Gospel of Mark adaptation also remains uncollected.