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Title: David Boring by Daniel Clowes ISBN: 0-375-40692-1 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: David Boring
Comment: Marvelous! This graphic novel documents the journeys of David Boring, a quirky 20 something security guard who has an obsessive manner and is enthralled by women's rear ends... The plot is sprinkled with strange twists and endless black humor, leaving you tickled pink. The art is fantastic, as is typical from Clowes (author of wildly popular Ghost World and Eight Ball). From murder to apocalyptic premonitions, to having sex with god, this book has it all, but not in an obviously absurd way. This graphic novel should not be passed by.
Rating: 4
Summary: If this is your first exposure to Clowes...
Comment: read Ghost World first, because it holds together a lot better than David Boring, even though this is a much more ambitious book.
This was actually the first Clowes that I read, and it was the first third of the book, about him courting and then losing Wanda, that had me absolutely hooked. I was completely with him during the second third, too, but I started losing it after he kept getting involved with woman after woman, indicating that the love story with Wanda - which had my complete attention and sympathy - was just part of a desire on his part to seek out women with big rears. It made some sort of thematic sense, but Clowes gave Wanda too much character to be just another pair of cheeks and, after she departs, the book seems to move hastily through a whole series of intricately conceived but largely arbitrary adventures, with little human interest.
I think if Clowes had committed more time and energy - maybe another forty or fifty pages - to the end of the book, it wouldn't seem like it was rushing towards an ending that sort of came out of nowhere. And although it lacks the emotional impact of Ghost World, the book still left me with an incredible feeling of loss, even as it seemed to be somewhat redemptive.
(The artwork here, incidentally, is probably his best ever, with every frame showing the marks of care and thought.)
Rating: 1
Summary: Disastrous attempt to imitate modern American novels
Comment: I'm not sure which writers Clowes was drawing on, but its clear that Clowes is trying here to work in the same vein as Pynchon, Barth, Gaddis and other recent novelists who mix black humor, absurdism, and pop culture together.
Clowes tries to do this using comic-book lore. The lead character searches after a rare comic book drawn by his late father. There are all sorts of improbable events, including nuclear armageddon.
Reading this is like watching kids using a chess set to play chess. Clowes doesn't have the erudition or the richness of humor to pull it off (neither do most recent MFA-credited novelists).
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Title: Ghost World by Daniel Clowes ISBN: 1560974273 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware ISBN: 0375404538 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes ISBN: 1560971169 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Twentieth Century Eightball (20th Century Eightball) by Daniel Clowes ISBN: 1560974362 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Caricature by Daniel Clowes ISBN: 1560974583 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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