Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron ~ Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron It’s a bitter joke in the world of alternative comics that whenever the mainstream press deigns to cover the field the headline always reads Comic Books Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore Comics haven’t been ”just for kids” since Robert Crumb sold Zap No 1 out of a baby carriage during the Summer of Love Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes ~ Daniel Clowes’ Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is like a feverdream nightmare noir that’s both simultaneously fuckedup and sorrowful and although it’s highly surreal it somehow manages to make sense in a superclaustrophobiexpialichaotic sort of way

Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron ~ This item Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron by Daniel Clowes Paperback 1799 Only 19 left in stock more on the way Ships from and sold by FREE Shipping on orders over 25 Details David Boring Pantheon Graphic Library by Daniel Clowes Paperback 1454 Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron ~ “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron was Twin Peaks before Twin Peaks a woozy nightmare of circular Pinteresque dialogue and skewed Bmovie aesthetics stark in inky black and white nasty one page and laugh out loud funny the next The series took the idea of what comic books could be right to the brink of crazy then lurched over the edge” Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron Wikipedia ~ Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes The book follows a rather fantastic and paranoid plot very different from the stark realism of Clowes later more widely known Ghost World It contains nightmarish imagery including dismemberment deformed people and animals and sexual fetishism

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