Дэниел Клоуэстің "Eightball" комиксі

Comic book by Daniel Clowes

Eightball is a comic book by Daniel Clowes and published by Fantagraphics Books. It ran from 1989 to 2004. The first issue appeared soon after the end of Clowes's previous comic book, Lloyd Llewellyn. Eightball has been among the best selling series in alternative comics. Early issues of Eightball feature a mixture of very short, often crudely humorous comics ("Zubrick and Pogeybait", "The Sensual Santa"), topical rants and satires ("Art School Confidential", "On Sports"), longer, more reflective self contained stories ("Caricature", "Immortal Invisible"), and serialized works. The first extended story serialized in Eightball was Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, which ran in issues #1–10. Glove was followed by Ghost World (issues #11–18). Beginning with #19 each issue of Eightball has been devoted to a single storyline, as opposed to the more eclectic format of the earlier issues. Issues #19–21 serialized the graphic novel David Boring, while issues #22 and 23 each consisted of a collection of short, fragmentary stories in diverse styles and formats that meshed into a unified narrative ("Ice Haven" and "The Death Ray"). The issues of Eightball beginning with #19 have been published in full color in a larger magazine sized format. Eightball #18 included a bound in copy of Clowes's pamphlet Modern Cartoonist.

Issue #1st Print DateStoriesNotes 1 Oct 89 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Devil Doll, The Laffin' Spittin' Man, Young Dan Pussey, What is the Most Important Invention of the Twentieth Century? 'Devil Doll' is a parody of several religious tracts by Jack Chick 2 Feb 90 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, The Truth, I Hate You Deeply (Lloyd Llewellyn), What Do You Think George Washington's Voice Sounded Like? 3 Jun 90 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, The Stroll, The Young Manhood of Dan Pussey, What Can Robots Do? 4 Oct 90 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, I Love You Tenderly (Lloyd Llewellyn), The Future, Dan Pussey's Masturbation Fantasy, Sexual Frustration, What Do You Do for a Cold? 5 Oct 90 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Just Another Day, Playful Obsession, Paranoid 6 Jun 91 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, The Dr. Infinity Story (Dan Pussey), Marooned 7 Nov 91 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Art School Confidential, Chicago 8 Mar 92 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Ugly Girls, Grist for the Mill, Dan Pussey Presents Komic Kollector's Korner, Nature Boy, Give it Up, My Suicide, Dialogues from Duplex Planet 'Ugly Girls' contains a prototype of Enid from Ghost World 9 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron 10 Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (conclusion) 11 Jun 93 Velvet Glove, Ghost World, The Party, The Fairy Frog, The Happy Fisherman, Why I Hate Christians, Ectomorph "Velvet Glove" is a parody of bad film adaptations, using the just completed Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron as its source, with behind the scenes segments showing an increasingly anxious Clowes in talks with a clueless Hollywood producer, and scenes from the resulting movie, in which Clay is a tough, sarcastic police detective who plays by his own rules and makes pithy remarks (such as "what are you lookin' at?") before shooting his enemies. Tina is recast as a space alien who gives "Clay" a ring of power. 12 Nov 93 Ghost World, Hippypants and Peace Bear, The Origin of Dan Pussey, Glue Destiny 13 Apr 94 Ghost World, Buddy Bradley in 'Who Would You Rather Fuck: Ginger or Mary Ann? ', Blue Italian Shit, Cool Your Jets, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The Buddy Bradley story is based on characters by Peter Bagge. 14 no indicia Ghost World, The Goldmommy, On Sports, The Death of Dan Pussey, The Sensual Santa 15 Apr 95 Ghost World, Caricature, Feldman The Feldman character makes an appearance in the film 'Ghost World' 16 Nov 95 Ghost World, Squirrel Girl and Candy Pants, Like a Weed, Joe, MCMLXVI, Immortal Invisible 17 Aug 96 Ghost World, Gynecology 18 Mar 97 Ghost World, Black Nylon, Latch Key Kid, Modern Cartoonist Modern Cartoonist is a pamphlet included with the comic 19 May 98 David Boring, Act I 20 Feb 99 David Boring, Act 2 21 Feb 00 David Boring, Act 3 22 Oct 01 Ice Haven 23 Jun 04 Death Ray

Ghost World was adapted by Clowes and director Terry Zwigoff into a 2001 feature film of the same name, for which Clowes and Zwigoff were nominated for an Academy Award for screenplay writing. Additionally, the 2006 Clowes/Zwigoff film Art School Confidential was loosely based on a short story of the same name which appeared in Eightball #7.

The comic generated controversy when a high school teacher in Guilford, Connecticut gave Eightball #22 (Ice Haven) to a student as a make up summer reading assignment. The parents of the student had concerns about the book's appropriateness. The superintendent of Guilford High School said the book was inappropriate for 13 year olds and placed the teacher on leave. The teacher resigned before the matter was fully investigated. The Guilford school district and principal were criticized for getting police involved and trying the issue in a "kangaroo court".