David Boring by Daniel Clowes
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Overview: Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humandkind will come inexorably to the fore.
David Boring
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Requirements: CBR Reader, 54 MB.
Overview: Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humandkind will come inexorably to the fore.
David Boring
- Daniel Clowes art, cover, write.
published by Fantagraphics, Pantheon Books, 1989 - 2000.
- David Boring by Daniel Clowes, Reviewed by Mark Thwaite on 18/07/2005.
- One of the most important - and best - writers in the comic field working today, Daniel Clowes is probably best known for his book Ghost World (made into a film by Terry Zwigoff and starring the now Bafta award-winning Scarlett Johansson, as Rebecca, memorably supporting Thora Birch spot-on Enid). David Boring tells the story of our "eponymous narrator" and his struggle against his mother, to learn more about his father (the creator of the Yellow Streak comic, of which David has but one Annual, and whom is mother really hates) and to find love (in the very particular shape of the women pasted into his "pervers scrapbook"). After the perplexing death of his friend Whitey, after his hard-won girlfriend Wanda leaves him for no clearly apparent reason and after being shot for reasons that, again, are not made immediately clear, David spends time recuperating at the family summer escape of Hulligan's Wharf.
The central part of the book (Act II, of three) details the (often sexual) tensions that well-up on the island, particularly after the appearance of Uncle August who claims that a germ warfare attack has widely contaminated the North American mainland. David's mother, his mother's cousin Mrs Capon, her 16 year old daughter Iris and Manfred Rolan her new husband share the island with David and his best friend Dot, a lesbian. Mrs Capon's disappearance and the growing affection between Dot and Iris lead to arguments, accusations and the end of the brief island idyll.
In the final part an increasing melodrama infects the comic overtaking David's life (the very antithesis of his moniker). And whilst this gives the final frames a slightly rushed feeling (with an over neat, if provisional, ending) Clowes' writing and mostly black & white drawing combine beautifully and Boring is a great comic.
David's sexual proclivities form an important theme throughout the book and Clowes plays this very well. But are "big asses" really David's sole motivation? Initially the search for his father seems like it will be a key narrative thread but David himself curtails this arc. This renders him rather flatter as a character than he should be and he never quite comes alive for us as clearly as do Enid and her best friend Rebecca in Ghost World. Indeed it is Dot who feels the more rounded character although she is only glimpsed compared to how much via the first person we get from David; which throws up the interesting insight that, perhaps, Clowes is actually better at characterising women than he is men. Notwithstanding these criticisms this is an excellent read. Clowes is a seriously good writer who is able to address a numbe of important issues within a form hardly renowned for its ability to question as well as it undoubtedly entertains.
Fast train to Weirdsville, David Boring, Daniel Clowes's enigmatic murder mystery, belies its title, Reviewed by Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, The Guardian, Saturday 16 November 2002
- Daniel Clowes's breakthrough book, Ghost World, was the tale of Enid and Rebecca, two cooler-than-thou teens caught in limbo between high school and the rest of their lives, and was hip in a way that only truly anti-hip stuff can be. With his crisp graphics, ironic tone and uncanny insight into teenage hell, 40-year-old Clowes has been creating two-dimensional characters with three-dimensional problems for years; but it was Ghost World's evocation of the particular pain of outgrowing childhood that really touched a chord. Serialised in Clowes's own comic, Eightball, and published here in book form during 2000, it gave a face and voice to all those American girls who don't wannabe Britney, way before Kelly Osbourne hit our screens. When the subsequent movie tie-in - a low-budget gem starring Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi - came out last year, it tripled book sales overnight. Ghost World has shifted more than 100,000 copies to date, creating a whole new readership for comics that grown-ups aren't ashamed to be seen with.
David Boring, Clowes's latest work, is an enigmatic murder mystery shivering with pre-millennial paranoia. Our "eponymous narrator" is a skinny 20-year-old security guard with an overactive sense of biography. Having escaped to the city to get away from his domineering mother (whose double-beehived hairdo gives her the air of Minnie Mouse after a hard night), David moves in with Dot, his lesbian best friend from high school. When another childhood friend, Whitey, is murdered, David goes all Raymond Chandler on us and tries to solve the case. "I love that I'm talking about 'blondes' and 'alibis'," he remarks. He gets entangled with an enigmatic dame called Wanda before taking a bullet in the brain. From then on the story ricochets off into Weirdsville as David retreats to the remote island playground of a dead millionaire, to wait out an unconfirmed world apocalypse.
David himself is not a particularly likable chap. Like the male characters of the seminal cartoonist Robert Crumb, many of Clowes's anti-heroes have a sweaty, guilty look, as if caught masturbating over pictures of the next-door neighbour's daughter. In our first peep at David, he is "naked, about to have sexual intercourse with what the consensus of the day would have held as a perfectly beautiful woman". While thrusting away he begins to describe her, then trails off, bored. "Her trim, athletic figure was blah blah etc etc." In fact, David is so pathologically detached from the world around him that it's difficult to care very much about him or, indeed, any of the other characters who, seen through David's eyes, are a far from endearing group of inadequate flakes, sinister control freaks and lust objects.
So what makes David Boring so compelling? Even its title is perversely uninviting. Shouted in declamatory Marvel style across the cover, it is partly a comic-buff reference to Superman artist Wayne Boring. Like many progressive writers of graphic novels (Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Chris Ware), Clowes grapples head on with his superhero heritage in a way that moves the medium forward. Despite his obscure link to the man in tights, and the bombastic middle name "Jupiter", David is devoid of secret superhero skills - apart from the surprising ability to tell the shape of a girl's bum by her face. David's long-absent father was a cartoonist in the 1950s and his garish Technicolor strip, "The Yellow Streak", is interspliced with Clowes's otherwise dramatically noirish panels. David struggles to formulate his identity through the past fragments of his father's comics, the shifting narrative of his own life ("what I had once thought was a romantic comedy is actually a horror story, complete with gothic effects") and his filmic aspirations ("I'm better than my father. Movies are better than comics. Tomorrow I will write"). In doing so he emerges as more than just an obsessive, introverted misfit: he's a cipher for the graphic novel itself.
Deeply cool in both senses and beautifully controlled, this is Clowes at his mature best. David Boring might lack the bubble-gum charm and emotional charge of Ghost World, yet it is a subtle and intriguing book, whose compelling perplexity makes it well worth unlocking. And happily, the easy rhythm of the grid structure means you can read the whole thing inside an hour. So, read and re-read it, until it blows you away with a muted "Kapow!"
Another Graphic Novels by Daniel Clowes:
- Eightball
20th Century Eightball
David Boring
Ghost World
Ice Haven
Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron
Lloyd Llewellyn
Mister Wonderful: A Love Story
Pussey!
Wilson
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