Come un guanto di velluto forgiato nel ferro

This book didn’t mean anything. Books that don’t mean anything have no right to exist. To exist is to possess meaning . Meaning cannot exist without existence. Existence is what gives meaning its meaning , and its existence. This book is meaningless , therefore nothing exists (especially not this book) Leggi tutto

Has the American heartland ever looked more desolate and repulsive? Originally published in the pages of Dan Clowes’ one-man anthology Eightball (once described by Clowes himself as “an orgy of spite, vengeance, hopelessness, despair and sexual perversion”), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron takes th Leggi tutto

Have you seen your life destroy itself through an addiction to cocaine? I haven't, but I understand your deal because there was a time I would have killed loved ones in order to get my hands on my next Eightball . Of course I adored the self-contained shorts of zesty social satire like I Love You Dea Leggi tutto

Reading this after having read his other, more famous, graphic novel Ghost World and it's sarcastic, funny and honest story about a pair of directionless teenagers, I was completely unprepared for the dream-like (perhaps "nightmare like" would be more accurate) world of Like a Velvet Glove Cast in I Leggi tutto

this made my head feel fizzy. and it is one of my favorite titles ever, tied with 'if it werent for venetian blinds, itd be curtains for us all.'

Βαθμολογία: 9/10 Πριν κάμποσα χρόνια διάβασα το Ghost World στην οθόνη του υπολογιστή μου, ένα ωραίο και ιδιαίτερο κόμικ, από το οποίο όμως δεν θυμάμαι και πάρα πολλά πράγματα. Σίγουρα κάποια στιγμή θα το διαβάσω στην έντυπη μορφή, όπως του αξίζει, για να το απολαύσω ακόμα καλύτερα. Τώρα, όσον αφορά Leggi tutto

If Dan Clowes died after producing this warped masterpiece he would have gone down in history as some demented prophet. "Like A Velvet Glove" was produced mostly around 1990-1991 when companies like Something Weird Video were unearthing every disturbing B-movie ever created, and that's the vibe this Leggi tutto