Eightball

    (Fantagraphics, 1989-2001, 2004)
©1989 Daniel Clowes

Eightball is perhaps the most famous work by alternative comics guru Dan Clowes. Clowes brings a shaky, claustrophobic feel to each of these stories, a mood that is reflected in everything from the perpetually furrowed brows of the characters to the surreal nature of situations they find themselves in. A good example of this is the series’ lead story, “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.” Here a man finds an all-knowing oracle in the bathroom of a movie theater and all he can think to ask is whether or not the oracle knew anything about the strange film he just watched. The images from that film reappear again when the man meets a person with fish in his eye sockets, an insane street bum, and a three-eyed prostitute.

Eightball is reminiscent of William S. Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch,” particularly in how the painfully dull lives of the characters are transformed to take on nightmarish dimensions.
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  • 1
    #1
    Oct 1989
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    #1 - 4th printing
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    Sep 1993
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    #1 - 5th printing
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    #2
    Nov 1990
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    #2 - 2nd printing
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    Feb 1991
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    #2 - 3rd printing
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    Jun 1992
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    #2 - 4th printing
    4th Printing Cover by Dan Clowes
    Oct 1993
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    #3
    Jun 1990
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    #3 - 2nd printing
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    Jun 1990
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    #3 - 3rd printing
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    Oct 1992
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    #3 - 4th printing
    4th printing
    Sep 1994
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    #3 - 5th printing
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    Dec 2000
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    #4
    Oct 1990
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    Oct 1991
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    Feb 1993
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    #4 - 4th printing
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    Aug 1993
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    #4 - 5th printing
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    May 2001
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    #5
    Feb 1991
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    May 1992
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    Jun 1991
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    Nov 1991
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    Jul 1993
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    #8
    May 1992
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    Sep 1992
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    Feb 1993
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    Jun 1993
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    #12
    Nov 1993
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    #13
    Apr 1994
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    Feb 1997
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    Sep 2002
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    Apr 1995
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    Nov 1995
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    Aug 1996
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    Mar 1997
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    #19
    May 1998
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    #20
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    Feb 1999
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    Feb 2000
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    Aug 2001
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    Jul 2004
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