The Clown (2000 AD)

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The Clown
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Cover to 2000 AD #774, 1992
Art by Robert Bliss
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 British 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.

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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”. [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]

Publication history

The first book was reprinted in Classic 2000 AD #10-11, 1996

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References

  1. 1 2 Mackay, James (7 June 2005). "Igor Goldkind interview". 2000 AD Review. Archived from the original on 5 April 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2016.