| The Clown | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | originally IPC Media (Fleetway) to 1999, thereafter Rebellion Developments |
| First appearance | 2000 AD #774 (1992) |
| Created by | Igor Goldkind Robert Bliss |
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 on a violent rampage to avenge the decapitation of his pony Toby.
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”. [1]
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". [1]
The first book was reprinted in Classic 2000 AD #10-11, 1996
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