![]() ![]() Clowes says his father and Schulz were alike in many ways, in physical and personality terms. Wilson was inspired by a combination of spending time with his father, who was in the hospital with a terminal condition, while also reading a biography of Charles Schulz. Wilson was the first book Clowes had published without first serializing it the way Ghost World and David Boring had first appeared in his comic book Eightball. It was printed with extremely thick and heavy cover boards. The story is told in one-page segments that can be read individually, while creating a larger whole. The style of artwork changes from strip to strip, sometimes in Clowes' familiar tight drawing style, sometimes more exaggeratedly cartoony. He is condescending and supercilious, and insists on communicating his alienating dissatisfactions with all those he meets, even with strangers, and most often unsolicited. Clowes says, "The story is really what you interpret happens in between each strip." The middle-aged, divorced Wilson, who lives in Oakland, California, finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past. ![]() Starring the misanthropic Wilson, the book is structured as 70 one-page gag strips, with days or even years passing between the strips. ![]() ![]() Wilson is a satirical graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes, published in 2010 by Drawn & Quarterly. ![]()
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