The pages were printed in a relatively large 10 + 1⁄ 2-×- 7 + 1⁄ 2-inch (27 × 19 cm) format. Pantheon Books published a hardcover collected version later in 2000 and followed with a softcover version in 2002. Trying to imagine what a one-sentence sales pitch for David Boring would sound like, Clowes told an interviewer "It's like Fassbinder meets half-baked Nabokov on Gilligan's Island." Publication ĭavid Boring 's three chapters (which Clowes called "acts") first appeared from May 1998 to February 2000 in issues #19–21 of Clowes's comic book Eightball, published by Fantagraphics Books. All this occurs in a nameless American city, against the background of a looming conflict involving germ warfare. The book depicts the misadventures of its eponymous character, whose main interests are finding the "perfect woman" and learning more about his father, an obscure comic artist whom he has never met. It was serialized in issues #19–21 of Clowes's comic book Eightball and appeared in collected form from Pantheon Books in 2000. Cover of the original hardback edition of David Boringĭavid Boring is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes.
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