These speculations are usually gloomy - but absurdly so. The overall effect is visually luscious and existentially disconcerting. Every drawing is saturated with Clowes' characteristic jellybean palette: sweet pastel pinks and blues jostling against burnt umber and sick green. The heavy cardboard slipcase is even decorated on the inside (with unsettling pictures of organs and a tongue). What an object it is! A shiny, slick, candy-colored brick, it's decorated on every surface with Clowes' most absurd and monstrous creations - Lloyd Llewellyn, Tina from Velvet Glove, that sweaty guy who announced on the cover of #8 that "I have chosen you at random to obsessively pester and annoy for the rest of your life, starting right now." Each of the two hardcover volumes has different illustrations on the front, back and spine. Instead, consider The Complete Eightball as an object. Forget the surreally hilarious horrors of Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, also seen here for the first time. Forget about the charismatic heart-burnings of Ghost World's Enid Coleslaw, immortalized on film but originating in these pages.
How?įor a minute, forget there's anything significant about The Complete Eightball.įorget that it contains the seminal works of one of the greatest artists in modern comics, unexpurgated for the first time since they were penned in the '90s. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. The Complete Eightball 1-18 is part of the Eightball series.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Complete Eightball 1-18 Author Daniel Clowes Features new covers by Clowes, and "Behind the Eightball": the author's annotations for each issue, heavily illustrated with art and photos from his archives. It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron," "Ghost World," "Pussey," "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," "Art School Confidential," "On Sports," "Zubrick and Pogeybait," "Hippypants and Peace-Bear," "Grip Glutz," "The Sensual Santa," "Feldman," and many more.
Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and filmmaker. Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology, Eightball it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author.
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