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Wilson

Daniel Clowes

Winner:Will Eisner Comic Industry Award -Graphic Album-New (2011)

AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of onesided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption.Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family--a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.

In the first all-new graphic novel from one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes creates a thoroughly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist--outspoken and oblivious to the world around him.Working in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrumof styles, the cartoonist of GhostWorld, Ice Haven, and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
  • Publish Date: Apr 27th, 2010
  • Pages: 80
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 11.30in - 8.50in - 0.70in - 1.65lb
  • EAN: 9781770460072
  • Categories: Literary

About the Author

Clowes, Daniel: -

Daniel Clowes is the acclaimed cartoonist of the seminal comic book series Eightball and the graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, Wilson, Mr. Wonderful, The Death-Ray, and Patience. He has had major retrospectives at the Oakland Museum of California and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
An Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the PEN Center USA Award, and Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards, and is a frequent cover artist for The New Yorker. He is married and lives in Oakland, California.

Praise for this book

"A bona-fide cult hero." --The New Yorker on Daniel Clowes

"[Clowes has] explored the tedium and mystery of contemporary American life with more wit and insight than most novelists or filmmakers. " --A.O. SCOTT, The New York Times on Daniel Clowes

"Clowes is the country's premier underground cartoonist." --Newsweek on Daniel Clowes