However, a good hour or two spent with these pages may reveal manifold meanings. He has later given an explanation that this novel is probably his subconscious railing against his first marriage. Clowes' mastery lies not in the absurdity, but in his fantastic facial expressions. The item Like a velvet glove cast in iron, Daniel Clowes represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. It's the sort of story-telling that wouldn't work in other media. Orifice-free dogs, a smiling advertising figure for a fascist collector's symbol (plus a wart on Hitler's neck), and conspiracy created where it doesn't already exist. Using disconcerting techniques from surrealism to erotica, this is in a vein with Joyce: You understand it, and it changes you or you assume it's just bizarre and nothing happens.Īlthough it's hard to define a plot as such, the swiftly-paced images give the book a sheen of paranoia or noir. (Note: it is significantly different to consume all in one sitting) Originally serialized in Eightball, now available in a collected edition. Seminal graphic novel by the revered Dan Clowes.
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