- City and town life, Comic books, strips, Female friendship, Graphic novels
One of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all-time telling the story of two supremely ironic, above-it-all teenagers facing the thrilling uncertainty of life after high school. As they attempt to carry their life-long friendship into a new era, the careful dynamics of their inseparable bond are jolted, and what seemed like a future of endless possibilities looks more like an encroaching reality of strip malls, low-paying service jobs and fading memories.
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Classical in form, spare, contemplative and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Clowes
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher
- Fantagraphics, Tandem Library, Jonathan Cape
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781560972990
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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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