Ed the Happy Clown #[nn]

Chester Brown's Ed the Happy Clown collects his boundary-pushing graphic novel in a handsome Drawn & Quarterly edition. The cover sets a genuinely unsettling tone — a moonlit, bare-branched forest rendered in deep blues and blacks, scattered with strange skeletal and ghostly figures lurking among gnarled roots and rocky outcroppings. It's a striking piece of work, entirely Brown's own hand from pencils to inks, that signals the darkly surreal journey waiting inside.