But the slipcase also features art on the inside, a look inside the fleshy guts and mechanics of the comic. The slipcase was the first thing that pleasantly surprised me the wraparound art depicting Eightball's dramatis personae of outcasts, losers and straight-up fucking psychos is perfect. Still, I've seen simpler projects get fucked up, in delightful and surprising ways. That wasn't a big worry, however, since it was being released by original Eightball publisher Fantagraphics, and Daniel Clowes himself was handling the design and providing new art. This book seemed to spend a long time in limbo, with the release date being pushed back several times, but it definitely lived up to expectations. Included are over 450 pages of vintage Clowes, including such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants 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 so many more.' Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published. Before he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time.

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