New Releases by Daniel Clowes

This long-awaited new graphic novel from Daniel Clowes (Ghost World and Patience) is a genre-bending thriller from one of the most assured storytellers of all time.

A cartoonist’s acclaimed take on the superhero genre—now in paperback. Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxious—but loyal—Louie. They roam school halls and city streets, invisible to everyone but bullies and tormentors, until the glorious day when Andy takes his first puff on a cigarette. That night he wakes, heart pounding, soaked in sweat, and finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything. Indeed, he can, and as he learns the extent of his new powers, he discovers a terrible and seductive gadget—a hideous compliment to his seething rage—that forever changes everything. The Death-Ray utilizes the classic staples of the superhero genre—origin, costume, ray gun, sidekick, fight scene—and reconfigures them in a story that is anything but morally simplistic. With subtle comedy, deft mastery, and an obvious affection for the bold pop-art exuberance of comic book design, Daniel Clowes delivers a contemporary meditation on the darkness of the human psyche. One of Clowes’s most beloved books, The Death-Ray is the winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards.

20th Century Eightball est un recueil d''histoires courtes issues des 18 premiers fascicules des comics éponymes publiés entre 1989 et 2004, et démontrant la versatilité de l''auteur ainsi que de son talent de satire sociale. Avec ses récits plusieurs fois primés Clowes est reconnu dans le monde et notamment par Chris Ware qui considère le numéro 1 comme le plus grand comic-book de la fin du XXe siècle.

Patience est une histoire d''amour, un récit de science-fiction, une enquête sur un fond de thriller mais Patience c''est d''abord et avant tout une histoire mise en scène avec génie par Daniel Clowes et dont l''amour n''y est pas mièvre, la SF est élégante et l''enquêteur névrosé se révèle plus inquiétant que rassurant. Pourtant on ne lâche pas la lecture de ce roman graphique tant est maitrisé son scénario.

Suite au visionnage d''un snuff movie où il croit reconnaître son amour disparu, Clay part à la recherche des producteurs du film qui pourraient le renseigner sur le sort de la jeune femme. Seulement, ce dernier n''avait pas anticipé les rencontres hallucinatoires, les embûches sordides ni même la fascination qu''exerce un certain Mister Jones.

Ghost World dresse le portrait de deux adolescentes américaines dans les années 1990. Enid et Rebecca sont fusionnelles, cyniques, sensibles, intelligentes et désabusées. Leurs nombreux doutes à propos de leur avenir, du passage à l''âge adulte ou bien de leur orientation sexuelle tisse un récit naturaliste qui révolutionna la bande dessinée américaine indépendante.

Collects all 18 issues of the comic book series Eightball.

Como uma luva de veludo moldada em ferro reúne os dez capítulos da história de mesmo nome publicada por Daniel Clowes entre 1989 e 1993 na revista Eightball. Ao tentar desvendar os mistérios por trás de um snuff film – gênero em que as mortes filmadas são reais –, Clay Loudermilk se vê envolvido com um elenco cada vez mais bizarro de personagens, incluindo uma dupla sádica de policiais que entalha um estranho símbolo no seu calcanhar; uma suburbana de meia-idade e libidinosa, cujo encontro sexual com uma misteriosa criatura das águas gerou uma filha mutante grotescamente disforme, mas não menos libidinosa; um cão sem qualquer orifício (que tem de ser alimentado via injeções); duas vítimas sinistras de implantes capilares terrivelmente malfeitos; um carismático líder de culto, no melhor estilo Charles Manson, que planeja sequestrar um famoso colunista de autoajuda e muito mais! Um clássico dos quadrinhos, finalmente relançado no Brasil, e inspiração para incontáveis outras obras, esta assustadora e fascinante jornada pela loucura faz Twin Peaks parecer os Teletubbies.

Daniel Clowes vai além do tempo e do espaço para criar uma história de amor, obstinação e ficção científica. Jack Barlow é um homem obcecado em encontrar a pessoa que matou sua esposa, Paciência, quando ela estava grávida. Ao descobrir um meio de viajar no tempo, ele volta ao passado para impedir a morte de seu grande amor e acaba descobrindo mais sobre ela e sobre si mesmo do que poderia imaginar. Esta é a obra mais peculiar de Clowes, com arte inigualável e cores que explodem diante do leitor, criando camadas e trilhas que mantêm o suspense até a última página. Uma obra-prima de um dos mestres da arte sequencial contemporânea.

Now a feature film with Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern A new paperback edition of the modern classic timed to the release of the Alexander Payne–produced film version. Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family--a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire. Daniel Clowes, one of the leading cartoonists of our time creates a thoroughly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist--outspoken and oblivious to the world around him. Working in a single-page gag format and drawing in a spectrum of styles, the cartoonist of Ghost World, Ice Haven, and The Death-Ray gives us Wilson, his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.

This is a redesigned reprint of Daniel Clowes''s early, unsettling graphic novel.

Patience is an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially ''Clowesian'', and utterly unique in the author''s body of work. This 180-page, full-colour story affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberant and breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet. The story opens in 2012, when Jack Barlow returns home to find Patience, his pregnant girlfriend, murdered. We meet him next in 2029, still haunted by the murder. He hears of a guy who thinks he''s invented a device that enables time travel. On the next page Jack is in 2006, watching Patience on her dates with boys. Is one of them the killer?

Feature a mixture of very short, often crudely humorous comics, topical rants and satires, some longer, more reflective self-contained stories and serialized works.

A central figure in the emergence of the graphic novel, Daniel Clowes has set the standard for literary cartooning. The Daniel Clowes Reader, a landmark critical compilation, introduces new readers to the cartoonist''s award-winning comics and provides those familiar with Clowes new ways of appreciating his visual and literary achievement. Parille organises 10 Clowes narratives into three thematic sections and supplies each story with an introduction and annotations that will open up its complexities.

El rayo mortal cuenta la historia de Andy, un chaval de diecisiete años, que descubre que posee una fuerza increíble desde que comenzó a fumar. Asesorado por su buen amigo Louie y armado con una pistola que desintegra a todo aquel que dispara, Andy tratará de convertirse en un auténtico superhéroe. No obstante, pronto descubrirá que la realidad es muy distinta a lo que nos cuentan los cómics.

Nancy joins Peanuts and Popeye at Fantagraphics! Nancy Volume 1, the first in an ongoing series, collects every daily strip of Ernie Bushmiller''s hyper-stylized, nearly abstract comic from 1942-1945 in a fat, square format (designed by the award-winning Jacob Covey). It includes a biography of Bushmiller and many more extras. The zen-like Nancy is the distillation of a newspaper comic strip, so much so that it illustrates the "comic strip" entry in the American Heritage Dictionary.

Andy est un garçon solitaire, sans famille ni copains, un tantinet misanthrope. Accablé par la médiocrité mêlée d''arrogance de ses contemporains et hanté par un terrible désir de vengeance, il se rêve une destinée exceptionnelle. Las d''une adolescence qui s''éternise, indifférent au monde qui l''entoure, il passe le plus clair de son temps avec Louie, son meilleur - et unique - ami. Tous deux coulent une jeunesse mélancolique dans une banlieue ordinaire, jusqu''au jour où Louie entraîne Andy dans ses frasques, l''initiant au Punk Rock et... aux cigarettes. Surprise, le tabac semble avoir sur Andy un effet inédit, le dotant soudain d''une force extraordinaire et de pouvoirs mystérieux. Le voilà désormais dans la peau d''un super-héros. Les super-méchants n''ont plus qu''à bien se tenir. Mais où les trouver dans une ville sans histoire et sans ambition...? Savant mélange d''élégance, d''aliénation et de déconstruction des genres, Le rayon de la mort est le dernier opus d''Eightball, le comic book dans lequel Daniel Clowes créa les classiques que sont devenus Ghost World, David Boring et Comme un gant de velours pris dans la fonte. En racontant l''histoire d''un criminel avec les artifices du récit de super-héros, Clowes revisite les codes esthétiques de la culture populaire pour en exposer le versant le plus trouble. Hommage et réflexion critique, Le Rayon de la mort met une nouvelle fois en scène l''attachement teinté d''ironie que Clowes porte aux adolescents et à la bande dessinée, fascination synthétisée ici dans une construction parfaite. A l''heure où les bons sentiments sont valorisés sur tous les fronts, cette pépite éclatante de misanthropie viendra rassurer profitablement le sociopathe qui sommeille en tout un chacun.

" ... A brutal and scathing peek into the insular, pathetic world of the comic book industry, as seen through the eyes of antihero Dan Pussey (pronounced "Pooh-say"), creator of the smash superhero comic "Nauseator." ..."--Publisher''s web site

Clowes'' first book remains a modern classic 15 years after the English edition''s debut in "Eightball," an award-winning comic series known for its gleefully incisive social satire. This noirish, surreal graphic novel that follows a man''s search for his ex-lover has been favorably compared to the works of David Lynch and Fellini.

"A brutal and scathing peek into the insular, pathetic world of the comic book industry, as seen through the eyes of antihero Dan Pussey (pronounced "Pooh-say"), creator of the smash superhero comic ''Nauseator''"--Publisher''s web site.

Meet 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 humankind will come inexorably to the fore.For those interested in comic art''s potential, Clowes''s work offers exciting literary possibilities. Boring is Anything but. --Time Dan Clowes

BOLA OCHO/EIGHT BALL SERIES: 1990-2, 1997-8, 2002-04 HARVEY WINNER; 2002 EISNER WINNER. 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 bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more like an encroaching reality of strip malls, low-paying service jobs and fading memories. Ghost Worldis also a major motion picture --Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff received Academy Award & Golden Globe nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. a classic in any medium --The Onion