![]() ![]() ![]() Still, it wouldn't be Clowes if he didn't show at least a touch of contempt for all of his characters amid the tenderness the story is a romantic comedy with almost-but not quite-enough caveats to sink any sense of hope. Mister Wonderful by Daniel Clowes - Penguin Books Australia Published: ISBN: 9780224085342 Imprint: Jonathan Cape Format: Hardback Pages: 80 RRP: 39. It's also the most tightly focused and sweet-tempered of Clowes's books so far, the closest thing he's done to a Woody Allen movie. Expanded from a serial that ran in the New York Times Magazine, this is a gorgeously staged graphic novella consistently playful and funny on a formal level-there's a running joke involving Marshall's interior monologue covering up images or dialogue, and constant fantasy sequences signaled by drawing-style shifts. Mister Wonderful is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes, published in 2011 by Pantheon Books after first being serialized in The New York Times Magazine.Its main protagonists are Marshall (a self-disparaging, middle-aged loner) and Natalie, who are brought together on a blind date. ![]() Over the course of the evening, nearly everything that could go wrong with a tentative flirtation does, including a mugging and a really bad party. Schlubby, broke, lonely divorcé Marshall only wants a partner, "someone to read the parts of the paper I throw away (travel, garden)." He's been set up on a date with Natalie, who's more or less perfect for him-operative phrase "more or less." She's got some damage of her own, but they do seem to have at least a touch of chemistry. ![]()
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