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Book

The complete Eightball. Issues 1-18

Call Number

  • GRAPHIC NOVEL CLOW (OSH)

Publication Information

Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2022]

Physical Description

1 volume (various pagings) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Summary

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 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron," "Ghost World," "Pussey," "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," "Art School Confidential," "On Sports," "Zubrick and Pogeybait," "Hippypants and Peace-Bear," "Grip Glutz," "The Sensual Santa," "Feldman," and many more. Features new covers by Clowes, and "Behind the Eightball": the author's annotations for each issue, heavily illustrated with art and photos from his archives. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Notes

Collecting issues #1-18 of Eightball from 1989 to 1997.

Contents

  • Eightball #1, October 1989. Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 1 ; Devil doll ; The laffin' spittin' man ; Young Dan Pussey ; Puss in booths excerpt ; What is the most important invention of the twentieth century?
  • Eightball #2, February 1990. The truth ; Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 2 ; I hate you deeply ; What do you think George Washington's voice sounded like?
  • Eightball #3, June 1990. The Eightball profile: Pastor Robert Tilton ; Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 3 ; The stroll ; The young manhood of Dan Pussey, or Portrait of the artist as a young Pussey ; What can robots do?
  • Eightball #4, October 1990. What do you do for a cold? ; Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 4 ; I love you tenderly ; Dan Pussey's masturbation fantasy ; The future ; Sexual frustration
  • Eightball #5, February 1991. Why do people spit? ; Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 5 ; Just another day ... ; Playful obsession ; Paranoid
  • Eightball #6, June 1991. Where do wiseguys come from? ; Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 6 ; The Doctor Infinity story ; Marooned on a desert island with the people on the subway ...
  • Eightball #7, November 1991. Needledick the Bug-Fucker ; Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 7 ; Art school confidential ; Chicago
  • Eightball #8, May 1992. Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 8 ; Ugly girls ; Grist for the mill ; Komic kollector's korner ; Nature boy ; Give it up! ; The headlamp ; My suicide ...
  • Eightball #9, September 1992. Ink studs ; Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 9 ; Fuckface ; The artist's life ; Zubrick and Pogeybait ; Eightball
  • Eightball #10, February 1993. Grip Glutz and Shamrock Squid ; Like a velvet glove cast in iron, part 10 ; Dickie ; Disgusting old acne fetishist? ; Young Dan Pussey's glamour date ; Zubrick's pal Pogeybait ; A message to the people of the future
  • Behind the Eightball #1
  • Eightball #11, June 1993. The party ; Velvet glove ; The fairy frog ; The happy fisherman ; Why I hate Christians ; Ghost world, part 1 ; Ectomorph
  • Eightball #12, November 1993. Glue destiny ; Hippypants and Peace Bear in "Question authority" ; King Ego ; The origin of Dan Pussey ; Ghost world, part 2
  • Eightball #13, April 1994. Buddy Bradley in "Who would you rather fuck: Ginger or Mary Ann?" ; Blue Italian shit ; Cool your jets ; Ghost world, part 3 ; Anomalies and curiosities of medicine
  • Eightball #14, October 1994. The gold mommy ; On sports ; Ghost world, part 4 ; The death of Dan Pussey ; The sensual Santa
  • Eightball #15, April 1995. Caricature ; Ghost world, part 5 ; Feldman
  • Eightball #16, November 1995. Squirrel Girl and Candy-Pants ; Like a weed, Joe ; MCMLXVI ; Ghost world, part 6 ; Immortal, invisible
  • Eightball #17, August 1996. Gynecology ; Ghost world, part 7
  • Eightball #18, March 1997. Ghost world, part 8 ; Black Nylon
  • Behind the Eightball #2.

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