From Fantagraphics:
The most popular alternative comic in the world is back, and it's bigger and better than ever! Presenting
Eightball #23 by Daniel G. Clowes. This is the first new issue of
Eightball in over two years, and it's another self-contained, full-color, oversized masterpiece like the award-winning previous issue! Featuring the first appearance of... The Death-Ray! The best-selling author of
Ghost World tells the story, set mostly in the 1970s, of a teenager granted mysterious powers and the irrevocable changes in his life that accompany them.
Eightball #23 hits stands July 14, just as Clowes and
Ghost World film director Terry Zwigoff will begin working on their second feature film collaboration. Mr. Mudd, the production company behind 2001's
Ghost World, reteams director Terry Zwigoff and cartoonist/screenwriter Dan Clowes for the eagerly anticipated
Art School Confidential. Set to lense in Los Angeles on July 12, the film also marks the continuing partnership between Mr. Mudd and United Artists, who released
Ghost World to critical acclaim. Terry Zwigoff and Dan Clowes were nominated for an Academy Award in 2002 for their screen adaptation of
Ghost World based on Clowes' graphic novel of the same name, published by Fantagraphics Books. Terry Zwigoff most recently helmed the box office hit
Bad Santa starring Billy Bob Thornton.
Mudd partners Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich and Russ Smith are producing from the Clowes penned script. Malkovich rounds out the art school cast of characters including Anjelica Huston, and Jim Broadbent. The film boasts ingenues Max Minghella and Sophia Myles.
Based on a comic story in Dan Clowes'
Eightball #7 (and reprinted in the collection
Twentieth Century Eightball, "Art School Confidential" tracks an art student (Minghella) who dreams of becoming a famous artist. Arriving as a freshman at a prestigious east coast art school, he quickly discovers that his affected style and arrogance don't get him very far. When he sees that a clueless jock is attracting the glory rightfully due him, he hatches an all-or-nothing plan to hit it big in the art world.
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