Wilson (Hardcover) by Daniel Clowes
Wilson (Hardcover) by Daniel Clowes
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Wilson (Hardcover) by Daniel Clowes

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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 loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of onesided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally 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 ended and given up for adoption.Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family—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 creates a thoroughly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist—outspoken and oblivious to the world around him.Working in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrumof styles, the cartoonist of GhostWorld, Ice Haven, and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.

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Feb 27, 2017
Charlie
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Self-absorption on steroids

Some losers are lovable in their antics, others annoying and a few you want to give a hard slap to. Wilson is in the last category, his self-absorbed thoughts and actions turn off fellow passengers on mass transit, people that he meets on the street, his ex-wife and the daughter that he did not know existed. When those characters are introduced, they are not much more than animated mannequins, providing little in the way of meaningful responsive dialog. Wilson is one of those people that will ask you a standard opening line question and then complain about the response. The character is summed up very well by a single caption of the short strip on the back cover. Wilson is browsing in a bookstore and he says, “All these books and not a single one about me!” Clowes is to be commended for going where other cartoonists fear to tread, having Wilson making nasty comments to his father in his deathbed during his last hours of life. That is indicative of most of the humor in the book, dark, gloomy and offensive to many. If there is a theme to the book it is petty self-absorption to the point of being a person you would like to kick hard in the privates.

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