sheesh, first Alan Moore, now Dan Clowes, who next?
Well, I believe it was Flux who recommended Clowes to me, so recently I bought some of his stuff (see how easy it is to get me to spend my money?!?!) Anyways, imagine my surprise when I find out that Clowes was the creator of Ghost World, a comic I've been meaning to read for some time now (not to mention watching the film). Well, "Ghost World" was great, I loved Enid, I wish I had a friend like her in real life. I haven't seen the film yet but I got the DVD recently so I hope to sometime next week.
I also got a book of Clowes called "Twentieth Century Eightball", and I just have to say I fell in love with this one, so much so that I'm trying to get the back issues of Eightball (so far I've managed to find 6, including #1, but I know where I can get some more cheap). This book was really great, very funny. I like Clowes style a lot, I love artists that draw ugly characters so well, but let's face it ugly characters imo are funner to draw (not to mention easier to draw then attractive people!) After reading so many comics about gods and 5D entities and superheroes and what not it's interesting to read something like this more small scale, almost realistic (well, except for things like the bugfucking stuff, but that doesn't seem too odd to me).
"Art School Confidential" was hilarious, makes me laugh everytime, I know so many people like that, including myself, Clowes could probably do a great strip mocking me."I Hate You Deeply" was one of the best pieces though, I dislike most of the types of people he mentions. Great stuff. |
