Daniel Clowes
1) Ghost World
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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) Wilson
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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.
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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***
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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.
5) Ice Haven
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A comic-strip novel about a group of misfit dreamers who inhabit the small town of Ice Haven.
9) David Boring
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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.
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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...
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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...
16) Ghost world
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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.
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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...
18) Ghost world
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Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.