20th Century Eightball - Daniel Clowes

GreatBall! (Worse pun ever?) (263 words)
by DanooMak19 - written on 15/02/01, updated on 15/02/01 (Useful, 24 readings)
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Eight ball is a 32-48 page comic written and drawn by Daniel Clowes- it has been going for good few years now and is currently being published- at the speed of about one copy a year! The stories have changed over the years with longer stories that have now been collected into graphic novels- such as Ghostworld, Like avelvet glove cas in iron and David Boring. Eightball is one of my favourite comics- mainly because of the great art which is really clean intricate stuff- that often picks out the most grotesque features of the human form! The stories that are longer- usually betray a very cinematic feel- they feel like the best film you ever saw- but by the last ...

Ghost World - Daniel Clowes

An American Beauty... (131 words)
by DanooMak19 - written on 15/02/01, updated on 15/02/01 (Somewhat useful, 10 readings)
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Daniel Clowes beautifily depict two best friends there quirks there nuances and there slow realitic drifting apart that basically happens to pretty much everyone at some point in there life The book is Classic Clowes is really easy to get hold of and is a must for literature fans everywhere- I find it hard to implore why ...

Ghost World - Daniel Clowes

Friendship in a Ghost World (359 words)
by pvincent - written on 07/07/00, updated on 17/02/05 (Very useful, 40 readings)
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This book is a wonderful evocation, by Daniel Clowes, of teenage friendships - their highs, their lows, and the tragic way they sometimes end, not with a bang, but with a gradual drifting apart as the friends take their separate trajectories into adulthood. First serialised in Clowes's "Eightball" comic (and being made into a feature film at the time of writing), Ghost World is the tale of two friends, teenagers Enid and Rebecca. Enid is prickly, streetwise, rather eccentric, and not "conventionally attractive" (you just KNOW she's going to be a Punk at some point!), whilst Rebecca is blonde, pretty, and much less idiosyncratic than Enid. ...