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. 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.
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. That night he wakes, heart pounding, soaked in sweat, and finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything. 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. Unless otherwise indicated, all sales final.ON TIME, NPR AND USA TODAY'S BEST-OF 2011 LISTS! WINNER OF THE EISNER, HARVEY AND IGNATZ AWARDS Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxious-but loyal-Louie.Your bid is your acceptance of a contract to purchase the item in accordance with the terms of auction.Full color illustrations throughout.IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - TERMS OF AUCTION:
The series ran from 1989 to 1997 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential ever produced.
(Jonathan Cape, 1997), Daniel Clowes made his name with the comic book series Eightball. Included are over 450 pages of vintage Clowes, including such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants 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 so many more. The Complete Eightball 1-18 (Hardback) - £65.87 - and many other great books are available for the lowest prices at Zatu Games UK. Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published. Only sign of wear is slight fold on bottom of outer box and small crease in binding(pictured above).This is a two-volume, slipcased facsimile edition of the Daniel Clowes comics anthology it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more.Before he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time.
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