The Daniel Clowes reader A critical edition of Ghost world and other stories, with essays, interviews and annotations
Book - 2013
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[Seattle, Wash.] :
Fantagraphics Books
[c2013]
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- English
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- Physical Description
- 358 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781606995891
- Section 1. Ghost World, Girls, and Adolescence: Introduction: from Ghost World special edition / Daniel Clowes; tGhost World; tA Ghost World index; Ghost World: an interview with Daniel Clowes / Joshua Glenn; How Ghost World made me brave / Adele Melander-Dayton; The Ghost Worlds of modern adolescence / Pamela Thurschwell; Close reading Clowes' dialogue: "You've grown into a beautiful young woman / Ken Parille; Literature at the Xerox machine: the rise of the zine / Kaya Oakes; Introduction to Wiglet with excerpts / Gilmore Tamny; Enid's Bookshelf: Ghost World and its precursors / with poems by Russell Edson and cartoons by Ann Roy; Enid's record player: Patience and Prudence and the Ramones; "Where are they now?"; Cartooning glossary for Ghost World and other comics
- Section II. Short Stories, Boys, and (Post)Adolescence: "Blue Italian shit"; "Like a weed, Joe"; Clowes on Rodger Young, gender, and autobiography: excerpts from five interviews; "Etc.,etc." : the post-punk ballad of Rodger Young / Scott Saul; "The party"; "Buddy Bradley in 'Who would you rather fuck: Ginger or Mary Ann?'"; Against groovy / Joshua Glenn; "Me worry?" / "U BUY" : Clowes and advertising in the 1990s / Ken Parille; "Black nylon"; Decoding "Black nylon" / Ken Parille
- Section III. Comics, Artists, and Audiences: "Daniel G. Clowes in Just another day..."Introduction"; "Art school confidential"; Changing faces; "Ugly girls"; Urban romanticism, Mad Magazine, and the aesthetics of Ugly (1986-1998) / Anne Mallory and Ken Parille; "King ego"; "Man-child", "Tom Pudd", "Wallace Wood", "You"; "Justin M. Damiano"; tModern Cartoonist; Worlds on paper: an interview with Daniel Clowes on his creative process / Darcy Sullivan
- Coda : A Daniel Clowes chronology; For further reading; Copyrights and indicia.