David Boring
Daniel Clowes
  • Published: 2 December 2002
  • ISBN: 9780224063234
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 132
  • RRP: $39.99

David Boring

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A startling follow-up graphic novel by the author of Ghost World.

Discover the adventures of David Boring in this electrifying new graphic novel from the author of Ghost World

David Boring is a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is, and what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case a sensational cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder), the primal nature of mankind will come inexorably to the fore.

'Imagine a tilted comic-book homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo, but with religious cults, fetishistic scrapbooks and scenes of underwater coupling' - Guardian

  • Published: 2 December 2002
  • ISBN: 9780224063234
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 132
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes was born in 1961. He is the creator of the comic books Eightball, Ghost World, which was made into a film by the director Terry Zwigoff, David Boring, and Ice Haven. His adaptation of his own Ghost World graphic novel for the screen earned him an Oscar nomination. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Comics, he lives in California with his wife.

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Praise for David Boring

Imagine a tilted comic-book homage to Hitchcock's Vertigo, but with religious cults, fetishistic scrapbooks and scenes of underwater coupling

Guardian

For those interested in comic art's potential, Clowes' work offers exciting literary possibilities. Boring is anything but

Time Magazine

Daniel Clowes' underground comics are now a hipster must-have. Why? Because his work is beautifully drawn with subtle, convincing storylines centred on everyday emotional weirdness

Time Out
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