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Dan Clowes, Patience draft cover

Artist: Daniel Clowes (All)

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Dan Clowes, Patience draft cover Comic Art

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Actual Patience cover - bad scan, don't enlarge

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Dan Clowes, Eightball issue 1 page 8, Fantagraphics 1989

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Title:	Dan Clowes, Patience draft cover
Artist:	Daniel Clowes (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	176
Likes on CAF:	5 6
Comments:	5
Added to Site:	10/22/2024
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Description

The back cover of Clowes' 2016 book Patience describes it as "a cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love". Would you buy this book based on that description?

I found it to be a deeply touching reflection on love and loss. Patience - which is both the name of the main character's murdered wife and what he must do to try live with his loss and ultimately fail to regain his previous life - is a story about things gone wrong. A life is taken away, an obsessive search to find out who murdered her, a focus on time traveling back to before the murder - while failing at his goals, the main character also fails to notice that his actions have become his life.

Clowes is unique, especially in long form as here in Patience and more recently in Monica. It takes me a few readings before I feel I truly understand how Clowes matches theme and action. I am pleased to have this almost finished draft cover.

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Mark V
Member Since 2021

1 - Posted on 10/22/2024

Another winner, Doug. Don't see a lot of pages or preliminary work from his later books so this is a real treat.

Comic Art Channel
Member Since 2018

1 - Posted on 10/22/2024

Very nice! Really enjoyed this book.

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 10/23/2024

Cool piece! Strong emotion in that neutral stare

Robert Altamura
Member Since 2006

1 - Posted on 10/23/2024

Great prelim. You inspired me to reread this. At first reading, I might have missed some things.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 10/27/2024

Patience isn't just a virue here. Those power lines behind her show how high of a pedestal Jack placed her in life and even more in death.

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