Wilson
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- ISBN13: 9781770460072
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AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL FROM THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SCREENWRITER AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST
Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who likes his dog and reasonably possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human tie, he badgers friend and weirder alike into a series of onesided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a cruelly honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage finished and agreed up for adoption.Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family tree—a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.
In the first all-new graphic novel from one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes makes a painstakingly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist—candid and oblivious to the world around him.Effective in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrumof styles, the cartoonist of GhostWorld, Ice Haven, and David Dull gives us his most amusing and most deeply distressing novel to date.
Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who likes his dog and reasonably possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human tie, he badgers friend and weirder alike into a series of onesided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a cruelly honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage finished and agreed up for adoption.Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family tree—a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.
In the first all-new graphic novel from one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes makes a painstakingly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist—candid and oblivious to the world around him.Effective in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrumof styles, the cartoonist of GhostWorld, Ice Haven, and David Dull gives us his most amusing and most deeply distressing novel to date.
Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: Wilson is billed as Daniel Clowes’s “first original graphic novel,” which sounds a small amusing, since he’s the leader of Ghost World, one of the instant classics of that young genre, as well as the lesser-known but strangely wonderful David Dull, among others. But his additional books first appeared serialized in his Eightball comics series, while Wilson comes to us all at once, in a gorgeous oversized package. Wilson tells a single, perfect tale (of the bitterly lonely man named in the title), but it does so in tiny bites. Each page is a stand-alone vignette, in the familiar newspaper comics rhythm of setup, setup, setup, punch line: like Garfield, say, if Jon were a foul-mouthed incipient felon (and drawn with the tenderly grotesque genius of Clowes). The gags are the sort that stick in your throat rather than go down simple, and together they add up to a life that’s just barely open to the possibility of wresting oneself out of the repetitions of lack of sympathy and failure. It’s an intriguing addition to the most thrilling career in comics. –Tom Nissley
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This was a pretty huge disappointment. It was just one page strips of some middle aged guy who despises everyone and everything. You get the impression that a lot of this characters thoughts are really Clowes. Also, Clowes did not reveal the main characters crime which landed him in prison. I dont get it. It was basically just a depressing tale of a pathetic loser.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Ug. Another dreary, rainy mood. Do we really need more would-be “art” telling us how empty life is? I’ve got news for all of us well-fed, well-educated, well-tended, privileged Americans and additional Westerners. Life ain’t empty. It is full and rich and we are very well off.
We are, perhaps, a bit spoiled–which is why the hint of self-pity sells well enough to support works such as these. But for goodness sakes–be pleased! If there are things you don’t like about your life of riches, go out and work for change–but this whining has just got to stop! It IS possible to produce art that celebrates life rather than complains about it.
We are the luckiest generation SO FAR.
Never before has mankind had so many channels of cable, such cheap PCs, so many friendly contacts with such a wide variety of the world’s cultures and peoples. Delight in! We have the first black president and our European allies are really proud to be our friends, not embarrassed and apologetic as they have been during previous administrations. You done excellent, people! Accept the credit, bask in the sunshine of your life, baby, the sunshine!
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
it is basically one page strips, each has a completely different drawing style and none of them are amusing.
i loved this guys ancient stuff but this is lame.
most of the tales go like this: “hey, you wanna hear something?”…”no”… “you are an a..hole!”
basically the same joke again and again… and not amusing.
this is pretty weak when compared to authors older books.
BIG disappointment!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a coherent tale told in one-page “strips.” The effect is reminiscent of the “Rusty Brown and Chalky White” comics by Chris Ware, as both tell tales of characters whose cluelessness and insecurity doom them to suffer but never learn. “Wilson” has laughs, based on the disparity between Wilson’s high self-esteem and his consistently petty, stupid behavior. And if you see yourself in Wilson, it’s even more amusing. If you can find a copy, read the first page. If you laugh, then it’s for you.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
While I loved the content of this book, the design and binding of it give me intermission. I’ve had 2 copies shipped from Amazon that were defective in different ways and they won’t replace it a third time due to some rule of theirs that seems to be 2 strikes and you’re out. Sorry this isn’t a more succinct review of Wilson, but suffice it to say that the contents are about Grade B level Clowes, but grade z D&Q publishing or Amazon storage/packing/shipping, so my review is at best very mixed, and I still don’t have a copy to call my own as I had to return both that were shipped to me…..more a review of Amazon and the publisher I’m sorry to say…
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5