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Those were both really just graphic novels with the world “Eightball” on the cover, which was nothing but confusing to people who weren’t sort of steeped in the whole world of comics and serialization and all that. And then the next two books I did that were also called Eightball were the books Ice Haven and The Death Ray. It really should have just been a standalone graphic novel. David Boring was a three-part continued story and there were no backup features or anything like that in the comics. NERDIST: Do you see a distinct line between your Eightball and post- Eightball work, or was it a gradual evolution?ĭANIEL CLOWES: At the time when I was doing comics with the name Eightball on them, it all seemed like part of a continuum, but now stepping back from it a little bit I can see that the eighteen issues that are in The Complete Eightball volume are very distinct from the ones that came after it.

Clowes, who appears Friday night at LA’s Meltdown Comics from 6 to 10 PM for a book launch party and signing, spoke with me last week from his home in Oakland and described the forces that made Eightball the leading anthology comic of the last twenty-five years. Containing serialized graphic novels like Ghost World and Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, as well as shorter works like “Art School Confidential” and “Caricature.” Each one of this deluxe two-volume slipcased hardcover’s four hundred and fifty-four pages is full of the observant, acerbic, often caustic hilarity that has earned Clowes his reputation as one of America’s finest cartoonists. This summer marks the long-awaited release of Daniel Clowes’ The Complete Eightball 1-18, collecting, as its title says, the first eighteen issues of the acclaimed anthology comic book published by Fantagraphics.