Monica

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A master. Perfect fusion of story and art. Clowes is an auteur. Period. A superb narrator -- Guillermo del Toro, creator of THE SHAPE OF WATER A new book by Clowes is always eagerly anticipated... Monica didn't disappoint... He gives us our own times magnificently disguised as a gorgeous-looking period piece * Observer, *Books of the Year* * Clowes just gets better and better... Monica is really inspiring * i * This strange and gripping book is often frightening and sometimes deeply sad. But it's also wickedly funny at times... A series of pitch-perfect portraits... I could not put it down * Observer * The year's most eagerly awaited work... A book that's philosophical as well as playful, and one of his best * Guardian, *Best Graphic Novels of the Year* * Clowes has long been considered one of the finest cartoonists of his generation.... But in Monica, he reaches a new artistic peak... Each section has a beautifully rendered drawing - whether it be a soldier lighting a cigarette or Monica wiping the steam from a bathroom mirror - that can be held up among the best of his career * Vanity Fair * It is precisely Clowes's lower-frequency sensitivities toward the suffering of his characters that power what many consider his greatest works - Ghost World, for one - and elevate his latest graphic novel, Monica, to the status of a masterpiece -- Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Novel A thrilling kaleidoscopic journey... Fans will need little excuse to fling themselves into this genre-hopping work. But casual readers shouldn't fret. Monica's story, despite being told in themed fragments, with gaps that sometimes stretch for decades, is full of drama... A rich, clever work * Guardian * The rare cartoonist whose graphic novels become cultural events * New York Magazine * One of the most notable comic artists of our era, a pillar of the '80s-'90s scene who's continued to do great work up to the present day * NPR *