'It's stunningly gorgeous, and Fantagraphics went all out to create a package that will please people like me who read Eightball in its single issue format as well as people who are new to his early work.' Our web store won't be receiving any more stock of The Complete Eightball 1-18, but you may be able to find it from a site like Indiebound or Bookshop, or at your local independent bookstore. The Complete Eightball 1-18 is part of the Eightball series. Included are over 450 pages of vintage Clowes, including such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants as 'Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron,' 'Ghost World,' 'Pussey,' 'I Hate You Deeply,' 'Sexual Frustration,' 'Ugly Girls,' 'Why I Hate Christians,' 'Message to the People of the Future,' 'Paranoid,' 'My Suicide,' 'Chicago,' 'Art School Confidential,' 'On Sports,' 'Zubrick and Pogeybait,' 'Hippypants and Peace-Bear,' 'Grip Glutz,' 'The Sensual Santa,' 'Feldman,' and so many more. Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published.

This is a two-volume, slipcased facsimile edition of the Daniel Clowes comics anthology it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more.īefore he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time.

Eightball by Daniel Clowes