It’s an oversized comic, almost the size of a Marvel Treasury Edition. From Peanuts-style strips to funny animal comics to romance comics to true crime, Clowes ran the gamut in telling this Raymond Carveresque story of a small town and its ugly realities. The critical and commercial failure of the latter certainly seemed to cure him of that cinematic influence on his comics, but it was clear that he had tired of it before then.Įightball #22, “Ice Haven”, was done in a number of different comics formats that seemed to deliberately defy any possibility of an adaptation. Of course, he adapted his own stories “Ghost World” and “Art School Confidential” into films, with varying degrees of success. Clowes’ relationship to movies was always a part of Eightball, from imagining the surreal and nihilistic serial “Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron” adapted as a cheesy b-movie to the deliberate three-act structure and dramatic staging of “David Boring”. The one-man anthology saw Dan Clowes mature from the absurd fifties hipster nonsense of Lloyd Llewellyn and shift to an approach that incorporated formal innovations, painfully real characters, literary and cinematic references and deeply personal, if veiled narratives. Eightball was the quintessential alternative comics series of the 90s.
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