Twentieth Century Eightball

Twentieth Century Eightball

Author: Daniel Clowes

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781560974369

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Trailing the success of the movie based on Clowes' graphic novel GhostWorld (1997) comes this collection of shorter stories from his alternativecomic book Eightball. Many of the pieces are tirades, albeit entertainingones, about things Clowes despises (perhaps the comic should have been calledHateball). "On Sports" details his contempt for professional athletics,and "Art School Confidential" is an expose of pretentious, talentless poseurs.This approach is carried to its logical peak in "I Hate You Deeply," a litany ofthe "types" that annoy Clowes, from "fashion plates" to "crybabies, whiners, andsensitive people." Clowes puts his misanthropy in abeyance for slice-of-lifestories in which he ruminates during a stroll around his neighborhood orfantasizes about his fellow passengers on a subway. Worthwhile enough, theseearlier stories merely presage Clowes' far-more-impressive recent work in whichcynicism is presented more subtly, leavened with sympathy, and voiced bywell-developed characters. If these pieces lack the heft of Clowes' longer, moreambitious efforts, the best of them are still masterful miniatures.


Twentieth Century Eightball

Twentieth Century Eightball

Author: Daniel Clowes

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781560974369

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Trailing the success of the movie based on Clowes' graphic novel GhostWorld (1997) comes this collection of shorter stories from his alternativecomic book Eightball. Many of the pieces are tirades, albeit entertainingones, about things Clowes despises (perhaps the comic should have been calledHateball). "On Sports" details his contempt for professional athletics,and "Art School Confidential" is an expose of pretentious, talentless poseurs.This approach is carried to its logical peak in "I Hate You Deeply," a litany ofthe "types" that annoy Clowes, from "fashion plates" to "crybabies, whiners, andsensitive people." Clowes puts his misanthropy in abeyance for slice-of-lifestories in which he ruminates during a stroll around his neighborhood orfantasizes about his fellow passengers on a subway. Worthwhile enough, theseearlier stories merely presage Clowes' far-more-impressive recent work in whichcynicism is presented more subtly, leavened with sympathy, and voiced bywell-developed characters. If these pieces lack the heft of Clowes' longer, moreambitious efforts, the best of them are still masterful miniatures.


The Complete Eightball: Issues 1-10

The Complete Eightball: Issues 1-10

Author: Daniel Clowes

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781606997574

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This is a two-volume, slipcased facsimile edition of the Daniel Clowes comics anthology; it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more.


The Art of Daniel Clowes

The Art of Daniel Clowes

Author: Alvin Buenaventura

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1613123639

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This collection from the New York Times–bestselling graphic novelist includes his most beloved illustrations and rare, previously unpublished works. Throughout his decades-long career, alternative cartoonist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. The creator of acclaimed graphic novels like Ghost World and David Boring, Clowes is widely praised for his emotionally compelling narratives that reimagine the ways that stories can be told in comics. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is the first monograph on this award-winning, New York Times–bestselling creator. It includes all of Clowes’s best-known illustrations, rare and previously unpublished work, as well as interviews and essays by Chip Kidd, Chris Ware, and others.


Caricature

Caricature

Author: Daniel Clowes

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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Hot on the heels of Clowes' phenomenal GHOST WORLD success, soon to be made into a film, CARICATURE is a collection of nine dramatic short stories culled from EIGHTBALL and ESQUIRE magazine. This is his first collection since GHOST WORLD. Clowes has been described as the most respected American cartoonist after R.Crumb'. A film based on GHOST WORLD will be released in 1999, directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Christina Ricci.'


Ghost World

Ghost World

Author: Daniel Clowes

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and written by original author Daniel Clowes and director Terry Zwigoff, this screenplay re-imagines Clowes's universally lauded comic book as an exhilarating, expansive variant, while maintaining the hilarious melancholic tone of the source novella. Included is the original shooting script, with over thirty pages of material not used in the final film, along with a 16-page full-colour section featuring rare artwork, production drawings, photographs of the cast and crew, and annotations by the screenwriters.


Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

Author: Daniel Clowes

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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A completely redesigned issue of Daniel Clowes masterpiece of surrealistic and cinematic low-life drama which collects together all 10 chapters of Eightball's terrifying and fascinating journey into madness. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters. Clowes reputation as a graphic novel artist is renowned throughout the comic world, and he is set to reach a wider audience next year with the release of the film Ghost World, directed by Terry Zwigoff.


Ice Haven

Ice Haven

Author: Daniel Clowes

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13: 037542332X

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The author of Ghost World presents an offbeat tour of the sleepy Midwestern town of Ice Haven and its unusual inhabitants, including Random Wilder, the narrator and would-be poet laureate of the town; his arch-rival Ida Wentz; the lovelorn Violet Van der Plazt and Vida Wentz; Mr. and Mrs. Ames, a detective team; and others. Mature.


Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes

Author: Daniel Clowes

Publisher: Fantagraphics Studio Edition

Published: 2020-02-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781683962588

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This career overview of one of comics' greatest creators collects raw, un-retouched original pages from the very beginning of Daniel Clowes's career (1986's Lloyd Llewelyn) to his one-man anthology, Eightball, in which his groundbreaking graphic novel Ghost World was originally serialized. It follows his work into the 21st century, up to his 2016 graphic novel about time travel, Patience, which spent 20+ weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller list. This is a must-have book for students, fans, and collectors.


Playing Without the Ball

Playing Without the Ball

Author: Rich Wallace

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2010-08-18

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0307477762

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Some might think Jay was cheated. By his mother, who walked out when he was 9. By his dad, who took a job a couple thousand miles away and let him stay above a bar in a one-room apartment. By the basketball coach, who saw his talent but chose youth over determination. And even Jay’s not sure whether this last year of high school in the small town of Sturbridge, Pennsylvania, will add up to anything. But just when senior year seems a waste–kissing the wrong girls, offending the right ones, playing basketball on a church league with other “rejects”–life begins to click again. The church league gives him some of the best basketball he’s ever played, and the right girl gives him a second chance. Jay may not know what he wants next out of life, but he’s beginning to get a clue about how to play the game.