Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002
Eightball #22 by Dan Clowes
Having long since established himself as a master of alienated, weirdo characters, most famously in Ghost World, Dan Clowes has now begun to explore the formal properties of the comix medium. This single, self-contained issue of his regular series Eightball finds inspiration in the style of filmmaker Robert Altman. Its 29 shorts range in length from a single strip to several pages; each one works alone as well as with the others, weaving multiple characters and multiple stories into one cohesive whole.