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ABOUT DAN CLOWES: |
Dan Clowes' first professional comic work was the Lloyd Llewellyn series - a darkly humorous satire of 50's middle class hipster culture being a mix of 1950's pop culture, a retro-cool vision, Raymond Chandler and bad Dean Martin movies. His next series, Eightball, demonstrated the range and diverse styles with which he is able to bring to his stories and included Ghost World, which was later adapted into the Oscar nominated movie of the same name. More details here. If you know of any other comic-related reading
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Doofus by Rick Altergott "Rick Altergott is the unsung genius of American comedy. Doofus is an amazing well crafted conflation of queasy psychology, sub-moronic toilet humor and Fine Art." From the advertising blurb |
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Amy & Jordan by Mark Beyer "These are some of my favorite comics of all time and surely the most perfectly realized vision of urban despair ever to hit the comic page. A must for any fan of bleakness and misery." From the Pantheon web-site |
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Unlikely (or How I Lost My Virginity) |
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The Complete Crumb by Robert Crumb "As for Crumb's work: What's not to like? He's the greatest. I especially love all the stuff he did for Weirdo and the four issues of Hup. His persistent attention to growth and improvement as an artist is a constant source of inspiration to me and any other cartoonist who's paying attention (never trust a goofball who dismisses Crumb because he's never done a substantial graphic novel or some such nonsense)." From The Life & Times Of R. Crumb |
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Will Elder: The Mad Playboy Of
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Roadstrips: A Graphic
Journey Across America Edited by Pete Friedrich "A fun-filled expedition across the plains and valleys of cartoon America by the leading geniuses of today's happening comic-book scene." From the back cover blurb |
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MAD
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Love & Rockets by Jamie Hernandez "... it's pure inspiration. He's got something in his brain that normal people don't have. Alex Toth has it, and a few other people, where everything they draw comes out absolutely perfect. He's just a perfect artist." From an interview, Comic Art #1 |
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Barnaby by Crocket Johnson "You know, you look at it panel by panel and it doesn't do much, but when you read the stories it really comes alive. Not only is it absolutely hilarious, but it has this really strong, unexpected emotional quality." From an interview, Comic Art #1 |
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Felix by Otto Messmer "Terry Zwigoff turned me on to these. I was never that interested in the character, but he had a bunch of old Sunday pages, including an amazing original Messmer, and I just kept looking at them every time I'd go over there. They have such a great comic presence, you know - just the way the characters dance around on the page. Simple, but really inventive and perfect and charming. Really smart stuff." From an interview, Comic Art #1 |
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Sof' Boy by Archer Prewitt "... he's an amazing artist. Especially coming from Chicago, as I do, this captures so perfectly the atmosphere of a horrible rat-infested Chicago alley." From an interview, Comic Art #1 |
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Skibber Bee-Bye by Ron Regé Jr "This book is lucid, meticulous, authentic, beautifully designed and slightly nuts." From the back cover blurb |
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The Little King by Otto Soglow "Otto Soglow is a guy nobody ever talks about. I just love his stuff. Some of these are literally laugh-out-load funny. I'm totally in awe of his simplicity, though the construction of the jokes is often very complicated and ambitious." From an interview, Comic Art #1 |
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Optic Nerve |