This omnibus Collects 'the best of ' Clowes' short stories from his acclaimed Fantagraphics comic book series Eightball. Noted comics historian Roger Sabin, author of Phaidon's Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels, calls 20th Century Eightball a 'corrosively satirical vision of an America cracking apart, and confirms Clowes as a worthy successor to the underground greats of the 1960s.'

Also included is Clowes' hilariously Freudian deconstruction of professional athletes, 'On Sports,' which caused a stir in San Antonio last year when reprinted in the city's most popular weekly paper, prompting an advertising boycott and demands for the paper to be destroyed by local sports fans. Other favorites include 'Art School Confidential,' one of Clowes' most popular strips of all-time: made into a motion picture with a screenplay by Ghost World's Clowes and Terry Zwigoff. Included within are such seminal strips/rants as 'I Hate You Deeply,' 'Sexual Frustration,' 'Ugly Girls,' 'Why I Hate Christians,' 'Message to the People of the Future,' 'Paranoid,' 'My Suicide,' 'Chicago,' and over three dozen more. The Village Voice proclaimed it 'brilliant,' and Art Spiegelman called it 'curdlingly good.' Simpsons creator Matt Groening has repeatedly called it his favorite comic book.Ģ0th Century Eightball collects the very best humor strips from Eightball, written and drawn between 19. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes name even before he gained fame as a. Renowned for its gleefully incisive social satire and riotous absurdity, Entertainment Weekly proclaimed it 'the year's best regularly published comic book' upon its debut in 1989. Pre-20th Century Artists Golden Age Illustrators. Before the Ghost World graphic novel and film propelled Daniel Clowes to international superstardom as the preeminent cartoonist of his generation, his ongoing comic book Eightball was already the most talked-about series of the 1990s.

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