Clowes as an artist has a lovely and very visually pleasing aesthetic. And when he’s not being subtly mischievous, he’s being subtly beautiful and poignant. Reading this book is like talking to a guy at the bar - he seems normal, seems to be living the average American life of quiet desperation - but every time he rounds off his part of the conversation, you discover that he just said one of the funniest and most honest things you’ve ever heard. Clowes’ Wilson is my new favorite graphic novel - it has surpassed Alan Moore’s Watchmen.įor me, Watchmen had some parts/storylines I cared about a lot more than other parts, whereas I loved nearly every page of Wilson. These days I need a recommendation I can trust - that’s one of the reasons I created this website: to try to put honest and trustworthy literary recommendations out into the world - and so when I saw that one of my heroes, comedy-writing legend George Meyer, endorsed this book, that was all the recommendation I needed. What, presumably, was the pitch to the publisher? “I’m legendary cartoonist Daniel Clowes, and I’ve assembled this masterpiece about the perspective of an average man as he lives his normal and yet darkly satirical life.”
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