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Dan Clowes, Eightball issue 1 page 8, Fantagraphics 1989

Artist: Dan Clowes (All)

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Title:	Dan Clowes, Eightball issue 1 page 8, Fantagraphics 1989
Artist:	Dan Clowes (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	303
Likes on CAF:	9 10
Comments:	11
Added to Site:	4/12/2024
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Lloyd Llewellyn
Eightball
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Pussey!
Ghost World
David Boring
Ice Haven
Wilson
Mr. Wonderful
The Death-Ray
Patience

and now Monica

What can you say about Clowes? Pencil for pencil, to me he is the greatest and most consistent comic artist currently at work.

I am incredibly pleased to have acquired this early page from Eightball 1 which was collected in Dan Pussey!: The Complete Saga of Young Dan Pussey, a savage caricature of the comics industry - begun when Clowes was only 28. So seeringly bleak for one so young! But also so funny and on point (look away Art Spiegelman from the fairly vicious satire character of Gummo Bumbleman).

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Rick W
Member Since 2017

1 - Posted on 4/12/2024

Exactly.

Danny Hoskins
Member Since 2021

1 - Posted on 4/12/2024

Great page!

Mark V
Member Since 2021

Posted on 4/12/2024

Congratulations, Doug. You're on a real roll lately.

Doug L.
Member Since 2019

1 - Posted on 4/12/2024

Mark V wrote:

Congratulations, Doug. You're on a real roll lately.

Thanks! I have been refocusing my collecting from 1980's alternative to earlier undergound. And you, grabbing those great Chester Square pages! That storyline is one I appreciate more as time passes.

Comic Art Channel
Member Since 2018

Posted on 4/12/2024

So funny! Congrats on this historic acquisition!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 4/12/2024

Significant and highly acclaimed first issue! Clowes' comes in like a whirlwind to bring a new age of quality comics by taming the format to bring fresh ideas of what comics medium can achieve.

Felix Lu
Member Since 2005

Posted on 4/13/2024

Wow, congrats on finding this, Doug! LOVE Clowes!

comicinkking. com
Member Since 2004

Posted on 4/13/2024

Beautiful! I want a Clowes!!

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

Posted on 4/13/2024

Spectacular! No one else like Clowes

Simon Ma
Member Since 2013

Posted on 4/14/2024

Fantastic page. Any Pussey page is a one-and-done-Clowes in my book but to scoop a page from the first appearance, from the first Eightball, and with the exaggerated serif lettering is in a league of its own. And never mind how Art Spiegleman might feel; what I want to know is if the real-life inspiration behind Dr Infinity ever read the comic. I could never look at him in the same light ever again. I might be in a minority but I kinda like the way the paper has gained a creamy tone; pages like this age like fine wine. Congrats and thanks for sharing this priceless page.

M L
Member Since 2015

Posted on 2/26/2025

A wonderful, stand-alone page!

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