Lump Soup Sciolpluileas!

Here's one I'm betting not many of Chester Brown's fans know about.

Starhead Comix in Seattle published both editions. The first was in 1985. The second printing in 1990 had some color in the cover.

At the time this comic was first drawn, Toronto cartoonist Chester Brown had yet to become a household name in comix. Yummy Fur was a small digest-sized comic at that time, but Chester's considerable talent was already obvious. His character Ed the Happy Clown was pretty much of a polar opposite to Morty the Dog. Perhaps that is why I played up Morty in this comic to be more of a jerk than ever in an effort to increase the comic tension.

The proposed title here was Lump Soup Sillies, but Chester threaded the word "copula" into the title and created a new word. I think we produced this by sending the art back and forth, a process I enjoyed with a fellow storyteller. It was fun wondering what Chester was going to do next with Ed.

Scanned and posted with permission from Chester Brown.