Daniel Clowes
1) Ghost World
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood and the future of their complicated relationship.
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable...
2) Monica
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story - actually, stories - of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined...
3) Patience
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"A cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love"--Page [4] of cover.
4) Wilson
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the graphic tale of an opinionated middle-aged loner whose inability to connect with anyone but his dog compels him to seek human companionship, an effort complicated by the discovery of a teenage daughter he never knew.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Language
English
Description
Andy, a miserable high-schooler in 1970s Chicago, has only one friend, an angry fellow outcast named Louie. He's desperately in love with a girl he met in California who won't return his letters and he's filled with shame at the constant taunts of his classmates. When he achieves super strength from smoking cigarettes he uses it for neither good nor evil but in a brutal playground showdown.
6) Ice Haven
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Language
English
Description
A comic-strip novel about a group of misfit dreamers who inhabit the small town of Ice Haven.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Clay Loudermilk stumbles into a screening of a bizarre snuff film that wraps him up in a mystery surrounding a series of cult-inspired killings, dubbed "The Harum Scarum Murders." The subsequent path Loudermilk's life takes is both a terrifying journey into madness and jaw-dropping tour-de-force of visual imagination fraught with psychosexual and conspiratorial tension. Black & white illustrations throughout." -- Amazon.
11) Wilson
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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. 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 screenwriter. From...
14) David Boring
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel in which a nineteen-year-old security guard named David Boring, in search of the girl of his dreams, winds up in a tangled web of obsession, murder, and family dysfunction. Contains adult content.
19) Ghost world
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jerome goes to art school in the hopes of having his genuine ability recognized. Instead he finds that his teachers are self-obsessed has-beens and his peers are jaded and floundering. To make matters worse, Jerome finds himself being investigated for a series of gruesome stranglings. He becomes obsessed with a lovely student named Audrey, but she is more interested in the hunky Jonah, whose crude yet acclaimed paintings of cars and tanks make Jerome...