

Urn:oclc:840418721 Republisher_date 20180627124315 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 412 Scandate 20180622115819 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Shipping_container SZ0024 Tts_version v1.

Urn:lcp:isbn_9780307378132:epub:06cae838-6f5a-4b1b-b77f-a6356a1ec788 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier isbn_9780307378132 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t81k3fr11 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780307378132Ġ307378136 Lccn 2010035354 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Japanese Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8649 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL24412824M Openlibrary_edition How fatherhood and grief have shaped the work of graphic novelist Daniel Clowes The acclaimed creator of Ghost World has spent five years on his most ambitious project yet: a psychedelic tale of. While a navel-gazing, lonely, main character is predictable for an underground comic, Clowes’s illustrations and page layouts redeem Mister Wonderful.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:50:39.408045 Boxid IA1254519 City New York Donor

Mister Wonderful clocks in at 80 pages, and while some readers may feel shortchanged, perhaps they are overlooking the scope of the work.

The big question of Mister Wonderful is whether Marshall can get over his neuroticisms (grossly lying about how much money he makes) and his social ineptitude (screaming at a homeless man during dinner) and make a connection with Natalie. Mister Wonderful is funny and balanced, but it’s not for everyone, including some longtime Clowes fans who might quibble with the book’s apparent slightness. Marshall says of his lowered expectations, “All I want is someone to eat breakfast with on Sunday morning, someone to read the parts of the paper I throw away (travel, garden).” They’ve been set up by a pair of mutual friends. By Daniel Clowes Mister Wonderful: A Love Story (First Edition) on. Mister Wonderful is a novella-length work about a divorced, self-conscious, middle-aged guy named Marshall who’s going on a blind date with a girl named Natalie (also recovering from romantic disaster). Mister Wonderful, part of which was originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, is on the sensitive realism end of Clowes’s storytelling spectrum. Mister Wonderful is the story of Marshall, a damaged divorcee meeting another damaged divorcee in a coffee shop on a blind date. Dan Clowes’s comics have ranged from grotesque surrealism ( Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron) in the spirit of David Lynch, to sensitive realism ( Ghost World, Caricature) in the spirit of J.D. Mister Wonderful Author Daniel Clowes Publisher Pantheon Books, 2011 ISBN 0307378136, 9780307378132 Length 77 pages Subjects Comics & Graphic Novels Romance Comics & Graphic Novels /.
