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A lot of these questions are answered in some pre-existing threads about these creators, but what the hell, right?
What I want to know is, how much material in the Eightball series remains uncollected and which issue should I start buying from? And what's the frequency of the comic?
All of the content has been collected. There is no reason to read anything in issue order. It's all in book collections now, and there is no reason to buy the single issues anymore.
It works like this -
The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection is all of the LL comics which came before the Eightball series in one book.
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is a collected story which was serialized in the early Eightball issues.
Ghost World collects all of the Ghost World strips. You know that.
Caricature collects all of the self-contained short stories throughout the run of Eightball (plus a few that appeared elsewhere).
David Boring collects that entire story, which originally was printed as three complete issues of Eightball.
20th Century Eightball collects all the shorts and odds & ends that appeared through the whole series.
The only single issue you need to get is Eightball #22 which is a complete stand alone comic, and perhaps his greatest work to date.
Eightball is on a highly irregular schedule, and basically comes out when Clowes finishes a project. He's very busy working on a new film with Terry Zwigoff right now, so it may be a while before the next issue comes out.
If you get all of those comics (plus the script edition of Ghost World), you have his entire body of work, aside from some illustrations which he's done freelance, and a short fairy tale story which he did for the second volume of Art Spiegelman's Little Lit series. (Which I have, and it's good, but I don't exactly recommend unless yr a serious completist or really into children's stories. I got it as a Christmas gift from one of my best friends two years ago.)
Optic Nerve is totally worth your time. You can get the entire run of the series in two books which have been released - Summer Blonde (the four most recent issues, including the story which appears in the Nonrequired Reading book) and Sleepwalk. Sleepwalk is very good, but Summer Blonde is far better since Tomine seems to improve greatly from one issue to the next.
I think you'd really love Jessica Abel's La Perdida, but I don't think now is the best time to get into that since the first issue is apparently out of print, and the next issue is the last one, meaning it will out in book form within the next year or two. |
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