Cerebus Syndrome: While there the series never shied away from the dark and dramatic, early issues also featured a mix of comedic pieces of all stripes, from satire to absurdist humor.The series veered away from this in latter issues, instead focusing on issue-spanning stories though the anthology format was still played with, albeit in a more Altmanesque fashion, where many stylistically different vignettes are presented, yet they all interconnect around some central plot or shared setting. Anthology Comic: The series began as heavily anthologized, with each individual issue packed with comics that ran the gamut from introspective drama to absurdist slapstick.Several Eightball strips have been adapted for the screen, including Ghost World and Art School Confidential.

A comic artist who rises to a short-lived fame followed by a long-lived obscurity, Dan's tale is a fictionalized blend of the biographies of several comic artists whose careers saw severe ups and downs, such as Steve Ditko, Rob Liefeld, and the team of Siegel And Shuster. This fascination with the larger comics world is also embodied by one of the series few recurring characters, Dan Pussey. Some of the strips written in homage to this era include 'Black Nylon'-about a delusional superhero-and The Death Ray-a stand-alone story about a genuinely superpowered teen who derives his abilities from nicotine. Throughout the series, Clowes makes many allusions to comic book culture, particularly to the Silver Age comics of Marvel and DC. As Clowes's writing began taking on more of a novelistic voice, the series began to focus on longer stories, and the anthology format (wherein Clowes would showcase a variety of artistic and writing styles in works that ranged anywhere from single page joke strips to serialized urban horrors) was seen less and less. While early issues of the series tended to focus on humor and social satire, the subject matter shifted over the run to focus more on character-driven dramas. It was first published in 1989 by Fantagraphics Books as a Spiritual Successor to Clowes's previous comic series Lloyd Llewellyn. Eightball is a comics anthology series written and drawn by Daniel Clowes.

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