Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature.
He lives a childless, petless life in California with his beloved wife..
A feature film based on his 1998 book, Ghost World, starring Thora Birch, will be released in 2001 by MGM.
His work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Vogue, Time, and Newsweek, among others.
He is the creator of the comic book Eight-Ball, twenty-one issues of which have been published to date.
About the Author: Daniel Clowes was born in Chicago in 1961.
And did I mention that much of this is hilariously funny?" -- Time From the Hardcover edition.
Meanwhile, the world may or may not be ending soon.
He also gets shot in the head (twice) and stranded on an island with his brutish family. "Boring finds love with a mysterious woman named Wanda, loses her and sort of finds her again.
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.
When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is.
Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature
