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Title: Caricature by Daniel Clowes ISBN: 1-56097-458-3 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unreality
Comment: Clowes has always been an excellent storyteller, but the brilliance of his work is not in his stories (which are often mundane and uneventful) but the rich and poignant display of emotions that play underneath the narrative. This was certainly the case in "Ghost World" and "David Boring" in that the exploration of loneliness, adolescent angst and self-loathing took place in the nuances of facial expression and the subtext of spoken word, and not in the unfolding of the plot. "Caricature" is no different, but with the added advantage of Clowes working without the burden of having to tell a story. Being less constrained by the demands of a longer, more cohesive narrative format, Clowes in this collection of nine vignettes is able to explore his themes with greater freedom and whimsy. Thus, many of the stories here take on a dream-like quality and even the more grounded ones have a strong sense of unreality. And indeed, it is in the weird plane of reverie where the emotions he means to convey are best communicated. This is stream-of-consciousness in the form of the graphic novel and more than in any of his other work he communicates at the level of the subconscious. Needless to say there are moments in this book that are transcendental.
Rating: 2
Summary: i'd rather have enid and rebecca
Comment: Although I'm an ardent admirer of Clowes, Caricature left me disappointed. Out of the nine stories in this collection, I was only really impressed by and interested in two. One of which was the title piece, which told the somewhat charming, somewhat unnerving story of a cartoon artist who makes his living drawing caricatures at carnivals and his odd relationship with a teenage girl who's in awe of his work. In typical Clowes style, all of these stories feature characters that are obsessed, alienated, and depressed, but unfortunately most of them (such as MCMLXVI, which is nothing more than a guy ranting about his preoccupation with 60's pop culture) feel tedious and don't really seem to go anywhere. Clowes is a brilliant cartoonist, but this collection isn't his best work.
Rating: 5
Summary: aufgh
Comment: To all the other reviewers: You can't expect all of Dan Clowes' work to be exactly like "Ghost World", I mean if you start out reading "Ghost World", and then expect all his comics to be exactly the same way, then it's not, and to say that something isn't as good because you keep comparing it to "Ghost World", then that's just stupid.
Like all of Dan Clowes' work, this comics is what it is, it's cynical and has stories that absorb you, such as the first one, and most of the female characters have something weird and strange about them, it's just an awesome book collection of his comics, and if you're a real fan of his, you'll get, but if you're just some person who keeps comparing everything to "Ghost world", you should still get it, but stop comparing!! geez
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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: 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: 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: David Boring by Daniel Clowes ISBN: 0375406921 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson ISBN: 1891830430 Publisher: Top Shelf Productions Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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