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by Daniel Clowes (Author) "I GUESS I SHOULD START OFF BY INTRODUCING MYSELF - MY NAME IS MAL ROSEN - I SIGN MY DRAWINGS 'MAL' . . . I'M..." (more)
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Dan Clowes follows his amazing graphic novel, Ghost World, with an equally stunning collection of nine short comics stories. His characters drift through the world in detached desperation, and they seem all the more real for it. Take the caricature artist, Mal Rosen, of the first story. His encounter with a young girl at an art festival plays out like a series of small self-discoveries, leaving him hollow and empty like a fresh exhalation. In this same sad, insightful way, all of these tales are coming-of-age stories--there's the boy who is too old for trick-or-treating ("Immortal, Invisible"), the 18-year-old virgin trying to create a new tough-guy persona ("Blue Italian Shit"), and the image-obsessed Mona Beadle from "Green Eyeliner," which originally appeared in Esquire. --Jim Pascoe --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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These nine stories show Clowes (Ghost World) as a writer compelled to produce infinite variations on the inner monologues of articulate, geeky loners. His characters exude a stylish, contemporary misanthropy; they're self-isolated, bland and ordinary, straight from some small town or emotionally dead family; and admittedly and intensely self-involved. They invariably substitute a trendy obsession with media kitsch, porn, fashion, old folk music or with just looking bored for empathetic communication or even small talk with others. These personages seem depressed and are usually fed up with most people. Though saturated in this tone of mannered disdain, Clowes's pieces are rescued from cliche and repetition by his expressive, meticulously glum drawings (in b&w and color) and a constant undertone of oddball, mocking hilarity. In the title story, he provides a portrait of an itinerant, county fair caricaturist and the unstable hipster brat-chick who insinuates herself into his life. In "Blue Italian Shit," he relates the story of Rodger Young, secret virgin and pathetic poseur, and his journey through a succession of bad late-1970s New York City styles ("there were fifteen minutes on this earth when I had a John Travolta haircut") and peculiar roommates ("Nat... listened to Kansas, and walked around naked"). In the supremely weird "Gynecology," Clowes deftly generates his characteristic emotional anemia in a story featuring a singing gynecologist and racist iconography. Clowes is a strange master at creating entertaining scenarios about contemporary social vacuity.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nobody captures the feeling of alienation better then Clowes, April 30 2004
By deaner73 (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
The brilliance of Clowes comic strips can be found in his unique ability to capture that lonely, empty feeling of alienation that his characters so often convey drifting in and out of vapid 'Ghost Worlds.' Make no mistake about it, this book is brilliant and should be rated 5 stars if it weren't for the last 1/5 of it where we're offered 2 stories that suffer from a lack of narrative cohesion. The first 4/5's though, demonstrate Clowes at his finest by way of his beautiful artwork and razor-sharp writing filled with pathos, humour and cutting observation.

Not to be missed by fans of Clowes not to mention newcomers interested in getting a taste of his work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars aufgh, Dec 11 2003
By painthesunblack (Brooklyn, N.Y. United States) - See all my reviews
To all the other reviewers: You can't expect all of Dan Clowes' work to be exactly like "Ghost World", I mean if you start out reading "Ghost World", and then expect all his comics to be exactly the same way, then it's not, and to say that something isn't as good because you keep comparing it to "Ghost World", then that's just stupid.

Like all of Dan Clowes' work, this comics is what it is, it's cynical and has stories that absorb you, such as the first one, and most of the female characters have something weird and strange about them, it's just an awesome book collection of his comics, and if you're a real fan of his, you'll get, but if you're just some person who keeps comparing everything to "Ghost world", you should still get it, but stop comparing!! geez

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unreality, Jan 8 2003
By "giantsuper" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
Clowes has always been an excellent storyteller, but the brilliance of his work is not in his stories (which are often mundane and uneventful) but the rich and poignant display of emotions that play underneath the narrative. This was certainly the case in "Ghost World" and "David Boring" in that the exploration of loneliness, adolescent angst and self-loathing took place in the nuances of facial expression and the subtext of spoken word, and not in the unfolding of the plot. "Caricature" is no different, but with the added advantage of Clowes working without the burden of having to tell a story. Being less constrained by the demands of a longer, more cohesive narrative format, Clowes in this collection of nine vignettes is able to explore his themes with greater freedom and whimsy. Thus, many of the stories here take on a dream-like quality and even the more grounded ones have a strong sense of unreality. And indeed, it is in the weird plane of reverie where the emotions he means to convey are best communicated. This is stream-of-consciousness in the form of the graphic novel and more than in any of his other work he communicates at the level of the subconscious. Needless to say there are moments in this book that are transcendental.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Glad I'm Not Any of These People.....
How does Dan Clowes manage to tell pointless, meandering stories about monstrously defective people and still make them entertaining? Beats me. Read more
Published on Dec 13 2002 by Daniel V. Reilly

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Glad I'm Not Any of These People.....
How does Dan Clowes manage to tell pointless, meandering stories about monstrously defective people and still make them entertaining? Beats me. Read more
Published on Dec 13 2002 by Daniel V. Reilly

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Glad I'm Not Any of These People.....
How does Dan Clowes manage to tell pointless, meandering stories about monstrously defective people and still make them entertaining? Beats me. Read more
Published on Dec 13 2002 by Daniel V. Reilly

5.0 out of 5 stars Mixers
One of these stories will hit a nerve with you, though probably not all. Clowes works in several styles and this is a good fix-mix, rather than pure drama-angst of... Read more
Published on Oct 13 2002 by bhangonoveloctresidom

5.0 out of 5 stars Grim and brilliant
This collection is the opposite extreme of 20th Century Eightball. While 20th C is hilariously funny, this book is dark & cynical. Read more
Published on Oct 7 2002 by M. Jones

3.0 out of 5 stars Nabokov?
Is that what the editorial reviewer said? Nabokov? Don't get me wrong, I like "Eightball" comics but let's not go overboard here. Read more
Published on May 1 2002

2.0 out of 5 stars i'd rather have enid and rebecca
Although I'm an ardent admirer of Clowes, Caricature left me disappointed. Out of the nine stories in this collection, I was only really impressed by and interested in two. Read more
Published on Mar 28 2002 by J. Braun

5.0 out of 5 stars My Hero
Despite what his sickly, balding, hunched figure at comic book signings might suggest, Dan Clowes is one of the most vital artists alive today. Read more
Published on Dec 5 2001 by Elisa Ambrogio

5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling 'Caricature' is haunting and unpretentious
I’m confused that some can call Clowes’s style too “retro” and in a narrow vein that “only individuals sharing his neurosis could love”, but... Read more
Published on May 10 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars are all funnybook nerds insane?
The manner in which comic book fans and publishers prostrate themselves over the kinds of tripe written by Clowes, Gilbert Hernandez, Neil Gaiman, Chris Ware and similar... Read more
Published on April 23 2001

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