Research Catalog

Title

The Daniel Clowes reader : a critical edition of Ghost world and other stories, with essays, interviews and annotations / edited by Ken Parille.

Author

Clowes, Daniel

Publication

Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics , c2013.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Parille, Ken
• Reynolds, Eric
• Mallory, Anne
• Buenaventura, Alvin
• Graphic Novel Collection

Description

358 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The collection also includes more than a dozen highly accessible critical essays that examine, from several perspectives, Clowes's comics and place his body of work within numerous biographical, artistic, and cultural contexts, such the 1980s and '90s indie DIYmovement, Generation X philosophy, and the traditions of superhero, humor, and alternative comics. Few, if any, cartoonists have Clowes's range: the collection includes a graphic novel, slice-of life short stories, comic rants, cultural criticism, a superhero tale, and several newspaper style comic strips about artists and their audiences.

Alternative Title

Reader

Subject

• Clowes, Daniel
• Clowes, Daniel > Interviews
• Clowes, Daniel > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Cartoonists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography, page 359.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ghost world, girls, and adolescence. Introduction: from Ghost World special edition / Daniel Clowes -- Ghost World -- A Ghost World index -- Ghost World: an interview with Daniel Clowes / Joshua Glenn -- How Ghost World made me brave / ADele Melander-Dayton -- The Ghost Worlds of modern adolescence / Pamela Thurschwell -- Close reading Clowes' dialogue: "You've grown into a beautiful young woman / Ken Parille -- Literature at the Xerox machine: the rise of the zine / Kaya Oakes -- Introduction to Wiglet with excerpts / Gilmore Tamny -- Enid's Bookshelf: Ghost World and its precursors / with poems by Russell Edson and cartoons by Ann Roy -- Enid's record player: Patience and Prudence and the Ramones -- "Where are they now?" -- Cartooning glossary for Ghost World and other comics -- Short stories, boys, and (post)adolescence. "Blue Italian shit" -- "Like a weed, Joe" -- Clowes on Rodger Young, gender, and autobiography: excerpts from five interviews -- "Etc.,etc." : the post-punk ballad of Rodger Young / Scott Saul -- "The party" -- "Buddy Bradley in 'Who would you rather fuck: Ginger or Mary Ann?'" -- Against groovy / Joshua Glenn -- "Me worry?" / "U BUY" : Clowes and advertising in the 1990s / Ken Parille -- "Black nylon" -- Decoding "Black nylon" / Ken Parille -- Comics, artists, and audiences. -- "Daniel G. Clowes in Just another day..." -- "Introduction" -- "Art school confidential" -- Changing faces -- "Ugly girls" -- Urban romanticism, Mad Magazine, and the aesthetics of Ugly (1986-1998) / "King ego" -- "Man-child," "Tom Pudd," "Wallace Wood," "You" -- "Justin M. Damiano" --- Modern Cartoonist -- Worlds on paper: an interview with Daniel Clowes on his creative process / Darcy Sullivan -- Coda : A Daniel Clowes chronology -- For further reading -- Copyrights and indicia.

ISBN

• 9781606995891 (pbk.)
• 1606995898 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 797980848
• SCSB-10919950

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library