I wouldn't think that a company that has successfully published 23 volumes of Creepy and Eerie, revived the high-end anthology in the form of DHP, brought Conan and Star Wars back from obscurity, makes sure Tim Truman, Steve Rude, Joe Lansdale, Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson, Mike Huddleston, Richard Corben, and Dean Motter stay in the public eye, consistently keeps the Marvel Conan and Star Wars comics in print, completed the US translations of Lone Wolf and Cub and Akira, publishes Hellboy and BPRD, and is at the forefront of digital publishing could be described as clowns.

When I think of clown I think "drunk guy at the circus hitting on my Mom in 1974." Your definition may differ.