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Original Title:	Twentieth Century Eightball (20th Century Eightball)
ISBN:	1560974362 (ISBN13: 9781560974369)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.fantagraphics.com/20thcentury8ball
Series:	Eightball

Twentieth Century Eightball (Eightball) Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

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Title	:	Twentieth Century Eightball (Eightball)
Author	:	Daniel Clowes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	September 17th 2002 by Fantagraphics (first published August 2nd 2002)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Graphic Novels Comics. Comix. Fiction. Comic Book

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Before the Ghost World graphic novel and film propelled Daniel Clowes to international superstardom as the preeminent cartoonist of his generation, his ongoing comic book Eightball was already the most talked-about series of the 1990s. Renowned for its gleefully incisive social satire and riotous absurdity, Entertainment Weekly proclaimed it "the year's best regularly published comic book" upon its debut in 1989. The Village Voice proclaimed it "brilliant," and Art Spiegelman called it "curdlingly good." Simpsons creator Matt Groening has repeatedly called it his favorite comic book.



20th Century Eightball collects the very best humor strips from Eightball, 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: made into a motion picture with a screenplay by Ghost World'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 Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels, calls 20th Century Eightball a "corrosively satirical vision of an America cracking apart, and confirms Clowes as a worthy successor to the underground greats of the 1960s."

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Dan Clowes' gag comics are pretty dumb, but occasionally they're really endearingly dumb. Knowing that this side of his creative personality exists definitely makes me like him more.

OMG this graphic novel had me dying of laughter. If you like xgen humor this is a masterpiece!

Although I rated this Five Stars I must admit I have never read the compilation. I have read almost every issue of Eightball when they came out and I think that Daniel Clowes is a great writer of the mundane life. It is not like American Splendor (which is great as well) it is a little more off kilter but really nothing amazing happens in the books. I was a big fan of this book when it was in monthly format so I can only imagine that the compilation is great as well.

Crudely honest, borderline too perverse to read, but thoughtful and funny. Unlike other graphic novelists, Clowes has not changed his drawing or coloring style much throughout his career, he has just learned to 'tone down the sex and violence'.Probably the edgiest comic I have ever read.

AND WHEN WE DIE THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL CORNER IN HELL RESERVED FOR CHICAGOANS WHERE THE DAMNED ARE FORCED TO DRINK OLD STYLE BEER WHILE LISTENING TO AN ETERNAL MEDLEY OF R&B STANDARDS PERFORMED BY JIM BELUSHI AND BRUCE WILLIS (ON HARMONICA) --- SEE YOU THERE!

Brilliant. I was laughing so hard I cried. I remember living in Chicago in the early 1990s reading Clowes's Freudian analysis of American team sports in a free alternative paper called the Lumpen Times and I was Xeroxing it for friends and reading it over and over again, it was so wickedly good. I'm happy to see it hereI never made the connection that this was the same cartoonist responsible for Ghost World till I bought this volumeas well as other small masterpieces that were used as filler at

This is my favorite piece of work Clowes has produced and reading this really sparked my burning infatuation with underground comics and to this day, 8 years later, I consider myself just as infatuated with alternative/ indie/ underground comix as I was the day I picked this sucker up. Thanks, Clowes!