Features new covers by Clowes, and 'Behind the Eightball': the author’s annotations for each issue, heavily illustrated with art and photos from his archives. It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as 'Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron,' 'Ghost World,' 'Pussey,' 'I Hate You Deeply,' 'Sexual Frustration,' 'Ugly Girls,' 'Why I Hate Christians,' 'Message to the People of the Future,' 'Paranoid,' 'My Suicide,' 'Chicago,' 'Art School Confidential,' 'On Sports,' 'Zubrick and Pogeybait,' 'Hippypants and Peace-Bear,' 'Grip Glutz,' 'The Sensual Santa,' 'Feldman,' and many more. Fantagraphics has just put out every issue (bar the final one) in a single volume.I think.

Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. Eightball is a series of comics that ran between 19. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist ( Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. Waiting until August 2014 kind of stinks, but hey, at least you can finally stop obsessively hunting on eBay for the issues you’re missing.Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology Eightball it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author.

Plus there’s, y’know, multiple editions of “Ghost World” and graphic novel collections of “David Boring” and “Ice Haven.” But still - this is rather amazing news. There was a collection of “The Death Ray” most recently that was really well put together, and there’s the collection of Eightball shorts released about a decade ago.

However, it’s odd to call this the “Complete” set as there were 23 issues and this contains 18, but some of this material has been collected elsewhere, mind you. Announced over the weekend at Comics Reporter, it looks like Daniel Clowes’ seminal series “Eightball” will be collected in one singular slipcase two-hardcover set in August of 2014, because Fantagraphics loves you and thinks you deserve the best. Listing for $95 for 454 pages of comic greatness, this comes just at the 25th anniversary of the initial release of the book and will include all covers and additional commentary from Clowes to go alongside it.

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