The manly world of Lloyd Llewellyn: A golden treasury of his complete works [Hardcover]

Daniel Clowes (Author)

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The Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn (1986-1988), one of the earliest works of Eightball author Daniel Clowes, anticipated the 1990s rediscovery of lounge culture. The 31 stories collected here combine Dragnet with The Twilight Zone with Tales from the Crypt in a world filled with aliens, good-time girls, and cocktail-bar nihilism. The stories are hip and funny, with a good dose of wacky 1950s paranoia and the kind of tongue-in-cheek morality that characterized the old E.C. horror comics. The Lloyd Llewellyn stories also trace the development of Clowes's style as a comic artist, from the angular early pieces that show the influence of 1950s advertising style to the grotesque Robert Crumb-inspired style of the more recent work in Eightball. Clowes is one of the most gifted comic-book artists around, and the retro-chic world of Lloyd Llewellyn deserves to be seen by a new generation of readers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books; 1st Fantagraphics ed edition (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560971452
• ISBN-13: 978-1560971450
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,565,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great! funny! a ripsnort of a book!, December 9, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The manly world of Lloyd Llewellyn: A golden treasury of his complete works (Hardcover)

The "Lloyd Llewellyn" stories are some of the funniest and sharpest stories iv'e read in comics.Clowes is a man that has no problem making his stories flow seamlessly in terms of his narrative and art. It is always interesting and enjoyable. this book is seconded only by one of his other books "like a velvet glove cast in iron". this is a lighter story about and out of luck writer and his adventures. Its feels honest and, like so much of Clowes' work it has a strange haunting quality that only Clowes can get.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Text married to Illustration for a first rate performance!, May 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The manly world of Lloyd Llewellyn: A golden treasury of his complete works (Hardcover)

Extremely entertaining with a dash of looking over your shoulder paranoia, Reminds me of what David Lynch would do if he was a cartoonist!