Chester Brown

Chester Brown is a Canadian cartoonist, born in Montreal in 1960, best known for Ed the Happy Clown, a surreal serial first run in his self-published Yummy Fur. In the early 1990s he turned to confessional autobiography with The Playboy and I Never Liked You, then wrote Louis Riel, a graphic novel about the Métis rebel leader. Later he made Paying for It, a case for decriminalizing prostitution, and Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, which revisits Bible stories along the same lines.