Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published. Eightball #18 included a bound-in copy of Clowes's pamphlet Modern Cartoonist.īefore he rose to fame as the author of the bestselling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time.
The issues of Eightball beginning with #19 have been published in full color in a larger magazine-sized format. 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"). 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. Glove was followed by Ghost World (issues #11–18). The first extended story serialized in Eightball was Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, which ran in issues #1–10. Eightball has been among the best-selling series in alternative comics.Įarly 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 issue appeared soon after the end of Clowes's previous comic book, Lloyd Llewellyn.
Eightball is an comic book by Daniel Clowes and published by Fantagraphics Books.
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