![]() ![]() Days and sometimes years pass between each strip, and just about all of the "action" of the book takes place in those off-panel gaps what we actually see on the pages of Wilson is, well, Wilson, in conversation. Clowes structures the book as a series of 70 one-page gag strips with titles like "Bad News," "Long Distance" and "Cheap Motel," each one opening a discrete window into the life of his eponymous main character. That's certainly true of Wilson, Clowes' latest book-length comic (he famously hates the term "graphic novel") in which he plays with narrative as only a cartoonist could. In this way, Clowes' work vindicates our unlovely thoughts, our blackest moods in his characters we see ourselves as we don't wish to be seen. ![]() The very fact that Enid is dissatisfied with her lot in life just means she's paying attention, Ghost World asserts. If she comes off as selfish, irritable and generally unpleasant (which is to say, as a teenager) Clowes is careful to show us that there's something sincere, even noble, behind her withering appraisals. Take Ghost World's resident teen cynic, Enid Coleslaw, and the reflexive scorn she feels for the world around her. His odes to contemporary loneliness and disaffection - Ghost World, David Boring and Ice Haven, which were serialized in Clowes' comic series Eightball before they were collected - offer a perverse kind of comfort to the reader. For the sake of good comics, we must hope that Daniel Clowes never cheers up. ![]()
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