Patience

Patience is a new high watermark for the author, but also for the medium as a whole... Clowes is a singular voice, not just in comics but in American literature. * Independent * No cartoonist alive devotes as much effort as Daniel Clowes to mapping the differences between the way people see themselves and the way they really are Clowess work is characterized by such technical perfection and well-calibrated acidity Clowess new book, Patience, is an enormous undertaking, not just in length but visually and in narrative scope. -- Sam Thielman * Guardian * Clowes does realism impeccablybut he is also fond of letting the irruption of the hyperreal or fantastical not so much shift gears as change the entire vehicle This is a deeply affecting bookits sustained undertow of tenderness and melancholy giving it a surprising delicacy. -- Neel Mukherjee * Guardian * Clowes drawings are as uncompromisingly honest and deadpan as ever, and the twists towards the end are expertly plotted, making Patience a brilliant addition to his great body of work. -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue * A naturalistic feel and the confidence that many contemporary fiction writers try to achieve Its a time-travelling love story by a beautiful, twisted genius. * Vice Magazine * Clowes mixes retro-styled visuals with eye-poppingly colourful surrealism and although it has the pace of a thriller, its also soaked in a feeling of helplessness as its characters struggle to control the world in which they live. * Metro * Patience by Daniel Clowes is the NEXT great book you are going to read But this book is so good it should cross over into the arena of those who dont normally partake of books in which images and words intersect read this, fall in love with its majesty Dont miss out. * Bookmunch * Tender and heartfelt, exciting and bizarre, Patience is interested above all in the stories we tell ourselves about love. -- Rachel Cook * Observer * As the time travel escalates the book heads towards entropy, gripping us to the very last panel and reminding us just why Clowes is held in such high regard. This is an essential purchase. -- Pete Redrup * Quietus * Creating weird worlds, subverting genres and confounding expectations is what Clowes does best. -- Tim Noakes * Dazed Digital *

Daniel Clowes was born in 1961. He is the creator of the comic books Eightball, Ghost World, which was made into a film by the director Terry Zwigoff, David Boring and Ice Haven. His adaptation of his own Ghost World graphic novel for the screen earned him an Oscar nomination. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, McSweeney's and the Best American Comics, he lives in California with his wife.