Welcome to Ice Haven! 'It's not as cold here as it sounds.' So declares Random Wilder, the town's would-be poet laureate. Would be, that is, were it not for the 'florid banalities' of arch-rival poet Ida Wentz, whom the Ice Haven Daily Progress continues to publish 'ad nauseam'. Random is our ersatz[...]
Shortlisted in the 2012 Angouleme Official Selection. Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He's been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he's just feeling set up. She's nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, mi[...]
Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly [...]
Terry Zwigoff's movie of Daniel Clowes' extraordinary graphic novel Ghost World has brought Clowes hordes of new readers. Every one of them will be eagerly awaiting the adventures of Clowes' new hero: David Boring, a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature[...]
Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended a[...]
Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances[...]
At long last, the paperback version of Daniel Clowes's bril-liant graphic novel, hailed by Time as "another of his hilari-ously slightly off-center worlds that have a vague sense of dread about them. Kind of like where you live."
Welcome to Ice Haven "It's not as cold here as it sounds," declar[...]
Throughout his 25-year career, cartoonist and screenwriter Dan Clowes has always been ahead of the artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s, his groundbreaking comic book Eghtball defined indie culture. With wit, venom and even a little sympathy, Clowes voiced the worries of slacker cultur[...]
From one of the most respected cartoonists of his generation comes a monumental work. The L.A. Weekly calls Clowes' comics "twisted and handsome"."Ghost World" follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, who are best friends and are facing the prospect of growing up, and more import[...]
The creator of Ghost World eviscerates American culture. Before the Ghost World graphic novel and film propelled Daniel Clowes to international superstardom as the preeminent cartoonist of his generation, his ongoing comic book Eightball was already the most talked-about series of the 1990s. Renowne[...]
The bestselling author of Ghost World collects his acclaimed short stories from Eightball and Esquire in softcover for the first time.The dramatic short stories included in this first softcover edition of Caricature have drawn comparisons to Nabokov for their complex naturalism and sense of humor. A[...]
An official companion to the major motion picture features a color version of the original comic on which the film is based and follows the adventures of an art student who dreams of greatness, in a collector's scrapbook that includes a screenplay, a shooting script, and deleted scenes. Original. (A[...]
Daniel Clowes (b. 1961) emerged from the "alternative comics" boom of the 1980s as one of the most significant cartoonists and most distinctive voices in the development of the graphic novel. His serialized "Eightball" comics, collected in such books as "David Boring," "Ice Haven," and "Like a Velve[...]
Before authoring one of the most beloved children s book series of all time Harold and the Purple Crayon cartoonist Crockett Johnson created the comic strip Barnaby for over ten years (1942 to 1952). Its subtle ironies and playful allusions never won a broad following, but the adventures of 5-year-o[...]
A wide-ranging introduction to the work of one of the most important living cartoonists, The Daniel Clowes Reader features Ghost World, Clowes s celebrated graphic novel about the complex friendship of two teenage girls. It also includes stories some reprinted for the first time about boys coming of[...]
Before he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one[...]
AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST
Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of oneside[...]
ON TIME, NPR AND USA TODAY'S BEST-OF 2011 LISTS WINNER OF THE EISNER, HARVEY AND IGNATZ AWARDS
Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxious--but loyal--Louie. They roam school halls and city streets, invisible to everyone but bullies and tormentors, until the glor[...]
När Clay kommer hem från ett biobesök är världen omkring honom plötsligt annorlunda, och den blir alltmer kuslig. Bland mutanter och konspirationsdårar, bland människor med skaldjur i ögonen och hundar utan kroppsöppningar söker han efter en kvinna ur sitt förflutna.
"Som en s[...]
Enid och Becky är bästisar i ett typiskt medelklassamhälle och har just slutat high school. I senpubertetens spökvärld letar de efter sig själva och efter äkthet, bemöter livet med en cool attityd och vet oändligt mycket bättre vad som gäller än alla de andra. Både de vuxna och - i synn[...]