We asked Clowes to reflect on his work from the past twenty-five years. From 1989 to 1997, Daniel Clowes produced eighteen issues of a comic-book series called_ _“Eightball.” As Sean Nelson wrote recently in The Stranger, “ Eightball became one of the essential comedic touchstones of 1990s culture, a way to help the self-selecting weirdos of the pre-internet-or at least pre- good-internet-era identify kindred spirits and speak in shorthand.” The series is now about to be rereleased as a “slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published.” The irony of a hundred-and-twenty-dollar volume that collects comic books which sold for two dollars and fifty cents an issue cannot be lost on Daniel Clowes, the cartoonist, graphic novelist, and filmmaker (with Terry Zwigoff for “Ghost World” and “Art School Confidential”) who’s widely considered a one-man embodiment of nineties cool.
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