The Clown (2000 AD)
The Clown is a series published in the comic anthology "2000 AD" between 1992 and 1994. It was created by Igor Goldkind and Robert Bliss. The story is about a clown who goes a violent rampage to avenge the decapitation of his pony Toby. Creation and concept. Igor Goldkind was originally hired to launch "Crisis" and later worked in PR for "2000 AD" before eventually contributing one-off stories to both "Crisis" and "Tharg's Future Shocks". He developed "The Clown" as a series for "2000 AD" and intended it to be a fond parody of  Neil Gaiman’s divisive literary writing style, describing it as “"The Sandman" on laughing gas”. Goldkind portrays the Clown as an “existential Mr. Magoo [...] more fixated on his ideas about reality than reality itself” and credits "The Sorrows of Young Werther" as an inspiration for the series’s satirical, solipsistic "metaphysical slapstick". The first book was reprinted in "Classic 2000 AD" #10-11, 1996