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A story of a man named Clay Loudermilk and his attempts to locate his estranged wife. For reasons unknown, Clay is in the audience at a porno theatre when he sees a bizarre BDSM feature, the star dominatrix of which is revealed to be his wife. Clay sets out to locate her and becomes embroiled in a series of misadventures involving an incredibly bizarre and varied cast of supporting characters.
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Contemporary, cool, spare and comic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Daniel Clowes
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 142
- Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books, Fantagraphics
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781560971184
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“I haven't been in this place for a long time...”
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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