Monica

A master. Perfect fusion of story and art. Clowes is an auteur. Period. A superb narrator – Guillermo del Toro, creator of THE SHAPE OF WATERA new book by Clowes is always eagerly anticipated… Monica didn’t disappoint… He gives us our own times magnificently disguised as a gorgeous-looking period piece * Observer, Books of the Year *Clowes just gets better and better… Monica is really inspiring * i *This strange and gripping book is often frightening and sometimes deeply sad. But it’s also wickedly funny at times… A series of pitch-perfect portraits… I could not put it down * Observer *The year’s most eagerly awaited work… A book that’s philosophical as well as playful, and one of his best * Guardian, Best Graphic Novels of the Year *Clowes has long been considered one of the finest cartoonists of his generation…. But in Monica, he reaches a new artistic peak… Each section has a beautifully rendered drawing - whether it be a soldier lighting a cigarette or Monica wiping the steam from a bathroom mirror - that can be held up among the best of his career * Vanity Fair *It is precisely Clowes’s lower-frequency sensitivities toward the suffering of his characters that power what many consider his greatest works - Ghost World, for one - and elevate his latest graphic novel, Monica, to the status of a masterpiece – Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao NovelA thrilling kaleidoscopic journey… Fans will need little excuse to fling themselves into this genre-hopping work. But casual readers shouldn’t fret. Monica’s story, despite being told in themed fragments, with gaps that sometimes stretch for decades, is full of drama… A rich, clever work * Guardian *The rare cartoonist whose graphic novels become cultural events * New York Magazine *One of the most notable comic artists of our era, a pillar of the ‘80s-‘90s scene who’s continued to do great work up to the present day * NPR *

Daniel Clowes was born in 1961. He is the creator of the comic books Eightball, Ghost World, which was made into a film by the director Terry Zwigoff, David Boring and Ice Haven. His adaptation of his own Ghost World graphic novel for the screen earned him an Oscar nomination. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, McSweeney’s and the Best American Comics, he lives in California with his wife.