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Spare, contemporary, cool and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, Ediciones La Cúpula, S.L., Pantheon
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788582864951
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“HERE, BY SOME MIRACLE OF CIRCUMSTANCE, I WAS, NAKED, ABOUT TO HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH WHAT THE CONSENSUS OF THE DAY WOULD HAVE HELD AS A PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.”
Clowes was born in Chicago, Illinois, to an auto mechanic mother and a furniture craftsman father. His mother was Jewish, whereas his father was from a "reserved WASPish Pennsylvania" family; Clowes's upbringing was not religious. In 1979, he finished high school at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he earned a BFA in 1984. It was at Pratt that he met and befriended fellow cartoonist Rick Altergott, with whom he started the small-press comics publisher Look Mom Comics. According to Clowes scholar, Ken Parille, the cartoonist had an early response to a "graphic" comic when, at age four, he burst into tears and began hitt
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