

Included are over 450 pages of vintage Clowes, including such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants as "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron," "Ghost World," "Pussey," "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," "Art School Confidential," "On Sports," "Zubrick and Pogeybait," "Hippypants and Peace-Bear," "Grip Glutz," "The Sensual Santa," "Feldman," and so many more.

Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published. Reviewed: The Complete Eightball: Issues 118. Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition.Before he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. In each dense and delirious issue of Eightball, Daniel Clowes was driven to perfectionism, ricocheting like mad from story to story and foretelling some of the comic medium’s possible futures. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. Listing for 95 for 454 pages of comic greatness, this comes just at the 25th anniversary of.

The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. Announced over the weekend at Comics Reporter, it looks like Daniel Clowes’ seminal series Eightball will be collected in one singular slipcase two-hardcover set in August of 2014, because Fantagraphics loves you and thinks you deserve the best. Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology Eightball it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that th. Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology Eightball it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author. Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published.
