Daniel Clowes
1) Monica
Author
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...
Author
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.
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
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A collection of 10 of the Harvey, Eisner and Ignatz Award-winning artist's most influential graphic narratives is complemented by interviews discussing his career and creative process as well as 12 thought-provoking essays by leading scholars and critics that place his work in cultural, historical and biographical contexts.
7) Ghost world
Author
Language
English
Description
Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated friendship.
10) David Boring
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
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.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When two friends tape record their violently noisy neighbors, they accidentally create one of the first viral pop-culture sensations. Blurring the lines between art and exploitation, this "audio misadventure" is a darkly comic modern fable. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize World Cinema - Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. "*Alternately hilarious and discomfiting, and finally rather poignant.*" - Dennis Harvey, ***Variety***
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Nicole Claveloux's short stories--originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English--are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are very different from our own but oddly recognizable. They are lands filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered...
13) Wilson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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
Language
English
Description
Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. In the late 1980s his groundbreaking comic book series Eightball defined indie culture with wit, venom, and even a little sympathy. With each successive graphic novel (Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, Wilson, Mister Wonderful ), Clowes has been praised for his emotionally compelling narratives that reimagine...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When two friends tape-recorded the fights of their violently noisy neighbors in the 1980s, they accidentally created one of the world's first 'viral' pop-culture sensations. The tapes went on to inspire a cult following, spawning sell-out CDs, comic artworks, stage plays, music from the likes of Devo, and a Hollywood feeding frenzy. For the newly famous neighbors Eddie and Mitchell, this would be a life-changing experience.
16) Ghost world
Series
Criterion collection volume 872
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Explores the relationship between directionless best friends Enid and Becky, and their adventures the summer after graduating high school.
17) Ghost world
Series
Criterion collection volume 872
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition].
Language
English
Description
Explores the relationship between directionless best friends Enid and Becky, and their adventures the summer after graduating high school.
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...
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