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Bezig met laden... Twentieth Century Eightballdoor Daniel Clowes
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A mixed bag of pure, unfiltered Clowes. This covers all the bases, from personal rants to stories about bugfuckers, all dripping with cynicism and rage. ( ) Twentieth Century Eightball is a mixed bag, reflecting as it does a cross-section of Daniel Clowes' early work. There are some brilliant pieces herein ("Art School Confidential", "On Sports") along with some completely mediocre pieces ("The Party", "I Hate You Deeply"). On some level, this book is really for the Clowes completist, since volumes like Ghost World or Ice Haven are better reflections of what the author is capable of creating with his considerable talents. A collection of early Eightball comic strips. Most of the stories are short excursions into an odd and anxious world of frenetic childhood cartoon characters and wandering loners lost in stream-of-consciousness thought. A number of my favorite Clowes short stories are included, such as Art School Confidential, Playful Obsession, The Sensual Santa, etc.
The best are easily as testily thoughtful and revealing as Clowes' works of fiction. And if they aren't concerned with creating sustained narrative story lines, taken together they do tell us a lot about character -- though the character revealed most is Daniel Clowes. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Eightball (1-16)
Trailing the success of the movie based on Clowes' graphic novel GhostWorld (1997) comes this collection of shorter stories from his alternativecomic book Eightball. Many of the pieces are tirades, albeit entertainingones, about things Clowes despises (perhaps the comic should have been calledHateball). "On Sports" details his contempt for professional athletics,and "Art School Confidential" is an expose of pretentious, talentless poseurs.This approach is carried to its logical peak in "I Hate You Deeply," a litany ofthe "types" that annoy Clowes, from "fashion plates" to "crybabies, whiners, andsensitive people." Clowes puts his misanthropy in abeyance for slice-of-lifestories in which he ruminates during a stroll around his neighborhood orfantasizes about his fellow passengers on a subway. Worthwhile enough, theseearlier stories merely presage Clowes' far-more-impressive recent work in whichcynicism is presented more subtly, leavened with sympathy, and voiced bywell-developed characters. If these pieces lack the heft of Clowes' longer, moreambitious efforts, the best of them are still masterful miniatures. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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