false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170129258m/43576.jpg 43576 3 The creator of <I>Ghost World<I> eviscerates American culture. <P>Before the <I>Ghost World<I> graphic novel and film propelled Daniel Clowes to international superstardom as the preeminent cartoonist of his generation, his ongoing comic book <I>Eightball</I> was already the most talked-about series of the 1990s. Renowned for its gleefully incisive social satire and riotous absurdity, <I>Entertainment Weekly</I> proclaimed it "the year's best regularly published comic book" upon its debut in 1989. <I>The Village Voice</I> proclaimed it "brilliant," and Art Spiegelman called it "curdlingly good." Simpsons creator Matt Groening has repeatedly called it his favorite comic book. <P><I>20th Century Eightball</I> collects the very best humor strips from <I>Eightball</I>, written and drawn between 1988 and 1996. Included within are such seminal strips/rants as "I Hate You Deeply," "Sexual Frustration," "Ugly Girls," "Why I Hate Christians," "Message to the People of the Future," "Paranoid," "My Suicide," "Chicago," and over three dozen more. Other favorites include "Art School Confidential," one of Clowes' most popular strips of all-time: it was recently optioned as a major motion picture by Drew Barrymore, with a screenplay by <I>Ghost World</I>'s Clowes and Terry Zwigoff. Also included is Clowes' hilariously Freudian deconstruction of professional athletes, "On Sports," which caused a stir in San Antonio last year when reprinted in the city's most popular weekly paper, prompting an advertising boycott and demands for the paper to be destroyed by local sports fans. Noted comics historian Roger Sabin, author of Phaidon's <I>Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels</I>, calls <I>20th Century Eightball</I> a "corrosively satirical vision of an America cracking apart, and confirms Clowes as a worthy successor to the underground greats of the 1960s." 40 pages in color, fully illustrated. 864626 8 2002 Twentieth Century Eightball (20th Century Eightball) total:516|5:179|4:203|3:114|2:18|1:2| 516 2087 584 20 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 18:15:38 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 14:22:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 17:26:52 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 17:31:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 21:56:53 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 22:04:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 14:37:14 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 14:38:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 20:20:06 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 20:59:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Apr 09 00:11:18 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 00:13:53 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 17:11:51 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 21:54:55 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Dec 26 20:17:31 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 20:19:25 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Mar 25 20:08:24 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 20:08:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Mar 09 03:06:01 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 03:07:08 -0700 2009 countless 5 0 false false Mon Nov 05 14:53:25 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 14:56:30 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Mon Feb 11 09:10:24 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 09:16:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 02:49:33 -0700 2007 Mon May 21 03:11:07 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Wed Mar 28 00:14:37 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 28 00:16:07 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Wed Jul 16 18:32:54 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 18:35:16 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Sep 02 13:31:43 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 13:32:52 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 08 13:16:08 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 13:17:29 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Aug 05 12:23:08 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 12:23:47 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 29 12:41:16 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 12:42:00 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 04 15:17:00 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 12 22:27:50 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=43576