![]() During the same time period, Clowes drew the first comic to feature his recurring character Lloyd Lewellyn, a hard-boiled detective type who experiences humorous adventures in a 1950s-styled world influenced by Robert Williams’ “lowbrow” art style. Later issues, in a larger, magazine-sized format, sit outside of the anthology’s ‘continuum.’Ĭlowes began his professional career in 1985 with Cracked, the less-feted Mad magazine knock-off, contributing cartoons under a variety of pseudonyms, as well as his own name, until 1989. But writer and artist Daniel Clowes considers these eighteen issues, which Fantagraphics Books published from 1989 to 1997, as the comic’s true run. ![]() Fantagraphics has republished various stories from Eightball as stand-alone graphic novels through the years, and published a now out-of-print two-volume hardback collection of the series in 2015. ![]() ![]() The recently-published The Complete Eightball 1-18 is a monster 528-page trade paperback collection that includes every page of the first eighteen issues of the ground-breaking and influential alternative comic with its original B&W and color artwork, as well as each issue’s letters page, product advertising, and often-enticing cover artwork. ![]()
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