Twentieth Century Eightball
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Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...
by Daniel Clowes
Daniel Clowes
Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....
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 2002. It consists of numerous short pieces originally published in Clowes's Eightball (comic book)
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...
, and other venues. Most of the contents previously appeared in the earlier, out-of-print collections Lout Rampage! and Orgy Bound, but the book also includes eight new stories.
Contents
- Little Enid
- Title Story
- Art School Confidential
- Cool Your Jets
- Ectomorph
- The Truth
- Ink Studs
- The Stroll
- Devil Doll?
- Needledick the Bugfucker
- Feldman
- I Hate You Deeply
- Zubrick and Pogeybait
- Frankie and Johnnie
- Marooned on a Desert Island with the People from the Subway
- Just Another Day
- Hippypants and Peace Bear
- Zubrick
- Chicago
- Why I Hate Christians
- Pogeybait
- On Sports
- Sexual Frustration
- The Operator
- A Message to the People of the Future
- The Happy Fisherman
- Give it Up!
- Grist for the Mill
- Ugly Girls
- Curtain of Sanity
- Playful Obsession
- Squirrel Girl and Candypants
- Paranoid
- I Love You Tenderly
- The Party
- The Sensual SantaThe Sensual Santa"The Sensual Santa" is a one-page comic by Daniel Clowes. It originally appeared in Eightball #14 and was reprinted in the Clowes collections Orgy Bound and Twentieth Century Eightball....
- My Suicide
- Eightball
- Man-Child
- Wallace Wood
- Tits
- Tom Pudd
- Grip Glutz and Shamrock Squid
- You
- About the Author