David Boring

Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner 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 humankind will come inexorably to the fore.

Boring finds love with a mysterious woman named Wanda, loses her and sort of finds her again. He also gets shot in the head (twice) and stranded on an island with his brutish family. Meanwhile, the world may or may not be ending soon. And did I mention that much of this is hilariously funny? -- Time

Author: Daniel Clowes
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 09/24/2002
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 10.24h x 7.66w x 0.36d
ISBN13: 9780375714528
ISBN10: 0375714529
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Dystopian
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Crime & Mystery

About the Author
Daniel Clowes was born in Chicago in 1961. He is the creator of the comic book Eight-Ball, twenty-one issues of which have been published to date. His work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Vogue, Time, and Newsweek, among others. A feature film based on his 1998 book, Ghost World, starring Thora Birch, will be released in 2001 by MGM. He lives a childless, petless life in California with his beloved wife.