Daniel Clowes

Caricature is a book collection of nine comic short stories by Daniel Clowes. In contrast to earlier Clowes collections such as Lout Rampage! and Orgy Bound, Caricature concentrates on the more naturalistic, character-focused side of Clowes's output displayed in Ghost World. It includes some of his most admired short …

David Boring is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes. It was serialized in issues #19–21 of the Clowes's comic book Eightball and appeared in collected form from Pantheon Books in 2000. The book depicts the misadventures of its eponymous character, whose main interests are finding the "perfect woman" …

Ghost World is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. It was serialized in issues #11–18 of Clowes's comic book series Eightball, and was published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books. It was a commercial and critical success and developed into a cult classic. Ghost World follows the day-to-day lives of best …

Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish." From this perch comes …