Published by Jonathan Cape, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£12.99
Author:
Daniel Clowes
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780224063234
£12.99
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EAN: 9780224063234
Published: 7 Nov 2002
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.
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 (in this case an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder), the primal nature of mankind will come inexorably to the fore.
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Imagine a tilted comic-book homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo, but with religious cults, fetishistic scrapbooks and scenes of underwater coupling
- Guardian
For those interested in comic art's potential, Clowes' work offers exciting literary possibilities. Boring is anything but
- Time Magazine
Daniel Clowes' underground comics are now a hipster must-have. Why? Because his work is beautifully drawn with subtle, convincing storylines centred on everyday emotional weirdness
- Time Out
Daniel Clowes is the author of the seminal comic book series Eightball, which has been collected into the books Ghost World, Ice Haven and David Boring; the screenwriter of the major motion pictures Ghost World and Art School Confidential; and an illustrator for the New Yorker. He is married and lives in Oakland, CA.
