His style and skill progressed at an astonishing rate. It showcased Clowes exploring all corners of his artistic creativity and expanding the art form as he did. Eightball was a one-man anthology series that ran from 1989 to 2004 for 23 issues.

After one last Lloyd Llewellyn “special” in 1988, Clowes was ready to move on to the work that would secure his much-deserved spot on the list of essential comic creators. In 1986, it ran for just over a year with 6 issues to its name. Cartoonist Daniel Clowes’ first comic series for the seminal independent comic publisher, Fantagraphics, was a 50’s jazz & film noir influenced detective comic called Lloyd Llewellyn. The alt comix Mount Rushmore would have way more than 4 faces because they’re never ones to play by the rules. He’s on my imaginary landmark too, along with many others. Included are over 450 pages of vintage Clowes, including such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants 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 so many more.On the Mount Rushmore of alternative comic book creators, along with Art Spiegelman and both Hernandez Brothers, is Daniel Clowes. Now, for the 25th anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published. 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.īefore 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 of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. Can you recognize all the characters on the cover for Daniel Clowe's upcoming Complete Eightball 2-volume set?

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