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The Clown (2000 AD)

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The Clown
Cover to 2000 AD #774, 1992
Art by Robert Bliss
Publication information
Publisheroriginally IPC Media (Fleetway) to 1999, thereafter Rebellion Developments
First appearance2000 AD #774 (1992)
Created byIgor 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.

Creation and concept

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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

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  • "The Clown Book 1" (in 2000 AD #774-779, 1992)
  • "The Clown Book 2: Prologue" (in 2000 AD #841, 1993)
  • "Vale of Tears" (with Greg Staples, in 2000 AD Yearbook 1994, 1993)
  • "The Clown Book 2" (with Robert Bliss/Greg Staples/Nick Percival, in 2000 AD #881-888, 1994)

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

References

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