Título: Chester Brown
Seção: Vortex and Ed the Happy Clown (1986-1989)
Background: Chester William David Brown (born 16 May 1960) is a Canadian cartoonist. Brown has gone through several stylistic and thematic periods. He gained notice in alternative comics circles in the 1980s for the surreal, scatological Ed the Happy Clown serial. After bringing Ed to an abrupt end, he delved into confessional autobiographical comics in the early 1990s and was strongly associated with fellow Toronto-based cartoonists Seth and Joe Matt, and the contemporary autobiographical comics trend.

Conteúdo: Chester William David Brown was born on 16 May 1960 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in Chateauguay, a Montreal suburb with a large English-speaking minority. His grandfather was history professor Chester New, after whom Chester New Hall is named at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has a brother, Gordon, who is two years his junior. His mother suffered from schizophrenia, and died in 1976 after falling down the stairs while in the Montreal General Hospital. Though he grew up in a predominantly French-speaking province and had his first mainstream success with his biography of French-speaking Metis rebel leader Louis Riel, Brown says he doesn't speak French. He said he had little contact with francophone culture when he was growing up, and the French speakers he had contact with spoke with him in English. Brown described himself as a "nerdy teeneager" attracted to comic books from a young age, especially ones about superheroes and monsters. He aimed at a career in superhero comics, and after graduating from high school in 1977 headed to New York City, where he had unsuccessful but encouraging interviews with Marvel and DC Comics. He moved to Montreal where he attended Dawson College. The program did not aim at a comics career, and he dropped out after a little more than a year. He tried to find work in New York, but was rejected again. He discovered the alternative comics scene that was developing in the early 1980s, and graspe

user: What is Vortex and Ed the Happy Clown?

assistant: Vortex Comics publisher Bill Marks picked up Yummy Fur as a regular, initially bimonthly comic book.

user: When did the comic start?

assistant: Starting publication in December 1986,

user: When did the comic end?

assistant: Diamond Comic Distributors' decision to stop distributing Yummy Fur starting with issue #9.

user: Did Brown collaborate with anyone on the comics?

assistant: Ed stories from the first twelve issues of Yummy Fur with an introduction by American Splendor writer Harvey Pekar and drawn by Brown.

user: Did he work with anyone else?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: How many comics were published?

assistant: He brought Ed to an abrupt end in Yummy Fur #18 to turn to autobiography.

user: Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: The offensive content of Ed caused it to be dropped by one printer, and is suspected to be behind Diamond Comic Distributors' decision

user: What other stories were included?

assistant: The bizarre misfortunes of the title character include being inundated in the faeces of a man unable to stop defaecating,