What kind of idiot would try to seduce high-school girl with Daniel Clowes? Good Lord, do they think he was trying to creepazoid his way into her pants?Ĭomments by “Danielle”: No. Did school administrators make any effort to determine whether this was true before suspending the teacher and (as hinted at in later posts by Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics, Eightball’s publisher) pressuring him to resign?Ģ. “Danielle” comments here and here, and claims that she and her husband were concerned that the teacher was giving the girl the comic not as an educational tool but as a way of coming on to her. Or at least it seems like it’s her, the Internet being what it is. If you use the 'Add to want list' tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. Available Stock Want List This item is not in stock at M圜omicShop. Well, the girl’s father may be a blowhard, but her mom is no coward she’s now twice braved the wilds of a comics-blog comments thread over at the Beat to tell her side of the story. Eightball (1989 Reprints) 14 Published Aug 1994 by Fantagraphics. The comics blogs went crazy with people arguing the issue, and we went ahead and called the girl’s dad a “blowhard” based on his quotes in the New Haven Register article about the case. Features new covers by Clowes, and “Behind the Eightball”: the author’s annotations for each issue, heavily illustrated with art and photos from his archives.The story so far: Nate Fisher, a Connecticut high-school English teacher, resigned last week after the parents of a freshman girl complained that he’d given her a copy of Eightball No.

It includes more than 500 pages of vintage Clowes: seminal serialized graphic novels, strips, and rants, such as “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron,” “Ghost World,” “Pussey,” “I Hate You Deeply,” “Sexual Frustration,” “Ugly Girls,” “Why I Hate Christians,” “Message to the People of the Future,” “Paranoid,” “My Suicide,” “Chicago,” “Art School Confidential,” “On Sports,” “Zubrick and Pogeybait,” “Hippypants and Peace-Bear,” “Grip Glutz,” “The Sensual Santa,” “Feldman,” and many more. Now, Fantagraphics is collecting every single page of these long out-of-print issues in a paperback edition. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes’ name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter.

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