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Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Daniel Clowes
A nightmare told with absolute clarity: Little Nemo In Slumberland as written by Samuel Beckett. - Entertainment Weekly
Fantagraphics Books
December 1998
142 pages
ISBN: 1560971169
Hardcover
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Graphic Novel
Daniel Clowes's first book remains a modern classic 15 years
after its debut in Eightball #1, the comic book title that
made Clowes a household name in comics circles. This surreal
graphic novel is couched within a noir-ish detective
structure and rich with recurring psychosexual motifs and
imagery. The story follows a deadpan Candide named Clay
Loudermilk, on a search for a former lover through a
landscape that several critics have favorably compared to
the works of David Lynch, Fellini, and Luis Buñuel, with
elements of Dragnet and Russ Meyer films added for good
measure. Clowes rigorously employs a dream logic as Clay
spirals down a spare, unsettling wasteland, meeting
three-eyed prostitutes, mutant waitresses, angry men with
hair plugs, and orifice-less dogs with secret messages
tattooed on their skin. As Clay attempts to untangle the
vast conspiracy he finds himself a part of, Velvet Glove
becomes a vivid and fantastic examination of futility,
self-loathing and paranoia, and a masterpiece of postmodern
fairy-telling, Like A Velvet Glove returns in 2005 as Clowes and film
director Terry Zwigoff put the finishing touches on Art
School Confidential, the follow-up to their 2001 Academy
Award-nominated film, Ghost World (based on the bestselling
comic book of the same name). To be released in the late
summer of 2005, Art School Confidential is sure to introduce
an entirely new audience to Clowes's work, just as the Ghost
World film did (pushing sales of the Ghost World graphic
novel over 150,000 to date).
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