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Eightball #8

Fantagraphics · Series began 1989 · May 1992

Dates

Cover date
May 1992
On sale
1992
Pages
32

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Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #8 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

script: Daniel Clowes, David Greenbergerpencils: Daniel Clowes, Rick Altergottinks: Daniel Clowes, Rick Altergottcolors: Daniel Clowesletters: Daniel Clowes

Stories

  • Part Eight · 12 pages

    Clay views another strange film

  • Ugly Girls · 3 pages

    Observations about beautiful and plain women

  • Grist for the Mill · 2 pages

    The desperate hunt for material

  • Komic Kollector's Korner · 1 pages

    Dan Pussey explains comics economics

  • Nature Boy · 3 pages

    A wander through a strange wood

  • Give It Up! · 1 pages

    What's the point of it all?

  • My Suicide... · 3 pages

    Self-pity and suicide

Publisher’s description

This issue contains the following stories:  Like a Velvet Glove Cast in IronUgly GirlsGrist for the MillDan Pussey Presents Komic Kollector's KornerNature BoyGive it Up!My SuicideDialogues from Duplex Planet

Characters

Dan Pussey

Reprinted in

The Complete Eightball (Issue Numbers 1-18) (2015), Orgy Bound (1996), Twentieth Century Eightball (2002), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1993), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1993), Pussey! (1995), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1998), Funny Book (2005), Pussey! (2006), The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (2012), The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations (2013), Original Art: Daniel Clowes (Studio Edition) (2020)

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