Priscilla Backman

Priscilla Backman is a supporting character in Chester Brown's surreal alternative comic Yummy Fur, moving through the bizarre, boundary-pushing world shared by the Backman family and the infamous Ed the Happy Clown.

Priscilla Backman stepped onto the page in 1988, born from the singular imagination of Chester Brown in Vortex's cult classic Yummy Fur — one of the most daring and unconventional comics the Copper Age produced. She's a Backman, which means her world is populated by the likes of Kari, Becky, and Bick Backman, as well as the unforgettable Ed the Happy Clown, making for some of the strangest, most boundary-pushing company in alternative comics history. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Priscilla is a quietly intriguing figure — the kind of character that rewards devoted readers who dig deep into Brown's brilliantly weird corner of the underground. If Yummy Fur is on your reading list, she's part of what makes that world so memorably strange.