Caricature is a book collection of nine comic

Comics

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 short stories

Short story

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 by Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes

Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....

. In contrast to earlier Clowes collections such as Lout Rampage! and Orgy Bound, Caricature concentrates on the more naturalistic, character-focused side of Clowes's output displayed in Ghost World

Ghost World

Ghost World is a comic book written and illustrated by Daniel Clowes. It was originally serialized in issues #11 through #18 of Clowes's comic book series Eightball, and was first published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books...

. It includes some of his most admired short stories, including "Immortal, Invisible", "Gynecology" and the title story. All the material in the collection originally appeared in Clowes's comic book

Comic book

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 Eightball

Eightball (comic book)

Eightball is an alternative comic book series written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. The first issue was published by Fantagraphics Books in 1989, soon after the end of Clowes's previous comic series, Lloyd Llewellyn...

with the exception of "Green Eyeliner", which was published in Esquire

Esquire (magazine)

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Caricature was first published by Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint...

 in 1998 in a deluxe hardcover

Hardcover

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 edition. A less expensive paperback

Paperback

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 version was released in 2002. Both editions contain a mixture of full-color

Color printing

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 and black-and-white

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material.

Contents

1. "Caricature"
2. "Blue Italian Shit"
3. "The Gold Mommy"
4. "MCMLXVI"
5. "Like a Weed, Joe"
6. "Immortal, Invisible"
7. "Green Eyeliner"
8. "Gynecology"
9. "Black Nylon"