The Daniel Clowes Reader : Ghost World, Nine Short Stories, and Critical Materials – Comics About Art, Adolescence, and Real Life

A large-ranging introduction to the work of one of the necessary dwelling cartoonists, The Daniel Clowes Reader options Ghost World, Clowes’s celebrated graphic novel in regards to the complicated friendship of two teenage women. It additionally consists of tales — some reprinted for the primary time — about boys coming of age, troubled superheroes, and the place of artists and critics in common tradition. The amount’s dozen crucial essays illuminate Clowes’s comics by finding them inside biographical, inventive, and socio-historical contexts, together with the Indie and DIY actions, Era X philosophy, and the historical past of American cartooning. Choices by artists who influenced Clowes and an in depth chronology of his work spherical out the gathering, and intensive annotations make clear the cartoonist’s sources and cultural references. Good for the faculty literature/graphic narrative classroom.