Patience

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2016: from the creator ofGhost World.

Publisher Marketing: A time-traveling love story by a beautiful, twisted genius.-- "Vice" Brief Description : Jack, torn apart by the mysterious murder of his wife, Patience, flings himself back and forth through time to discover and punish the real culprit. Not everything is at it seems, however-- not even his beloved wife. Review Quotes : Patience is incredibly captivating - a stunning marriage of text, image, and design, and a demonstration of Clowes' sheer mastery of the art of sequential storytelling. A must-have for any graphic novel section.-- "Booklist" Review Quotes : Disturbing, convoluted, darkly comic and just plain dark, the book itself is a thing of beauty. The book's self-awareness and sympathy make it more than just an exercise in the mixing of genres, but it's in this unabashed mixing that Clowes creates a story that is as transcendent as it is upsetting -- and affirming.-- "Chicago Tribune" Review Quotes : DAN CLOWES. American. A master. Perfect fusion of story and art. Clowes is an auteur. Period. A superb narrator. Patience is the rare time travel tale that fully delivers.-- "Guillermo Del Toro" Review Quotes : The greatest action in Clowes's time-travel murder mystery isn't the violence, surprise twists, or trippy visuals, it is whether Jack will choose to give into the lure of his past or accept the future he has created.-- "Hyperallergic" Review Quotes : A world where time travel is as real as love. The humanity of this futuristic thriller is alarmingly palpable. It's final pages left me close to tears but filled with hope.-- "Lenny Letter" Review Quotes : A huge gorgeous slab of a book with drawings so sumptuous and vibrant I wanted to plaster them all over my walls.-- "Longreads" Review Quotes : A genuine, selfless love story that stretches out across space and time, and it isn't spoiling things to say you may well have your mind pleasantly expanded by the ending.-- "Mashable" Review Quotes : Daniel Clowes's new graphic novel is a time-travel thriller filtered through his own furiously warped sensibility. ... Nobody draws reality curdling around its edges like Clowes... and Jack's all-devouring quest for vengeance mutates his story from a sci-fi whodunit to psychedelic psychological horror.--Douglas Wolk "Playboy" Review Quotes : A bizarre masterwork.-- "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : Clowes plumbs the depths of science fiction in this intriguingly bizarre love story. One of the best releases of 2016. -- "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : The creator of Ghost World writes a psychedelic science fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially Clowesian and unique in the author's body of work.--Heidi MacDonald "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : Clowes' latest work finds the graphic novelist at the height of his powers, employing all the mind-bending talent he can muster.-- "San Francisco Chronicle" Review Quotes : Tender and heartfelt, exciting and bizarre, Patience is interested above all in the stories we tell ourselves about love. Loyalty can be toxic, for all that we prize it. Patience isn't always a virtue; sometimes, it's just a time bomb in disguise.-- "The Guardian" Review Quotes : You cannot help but feel carried along by a true master of the form, a cartoonist working at the very height of his powers. Anew high watermark for the author, but also for the medium as a whole. It is not just his longest work, but his most affecting, and the powerful emotional punch of the closing pages is one that will stay with the reader for a long time.-- "The Independent" Review Quotes : The vibrant colouring leaps off the page - averitable rainbow of vice and iniquity. And the flamboyance with which he illustrates the various drug trips and nightmare visions that punctuate is a joy to behold.-- "The Independent" Review Quotes : A shadowy, lysergic trip down nostalgia lane. Full of Clowesian magic -- visceral portraits, melting reality, and clean, beautiful artwork. Like riding a Robert Williams painted pony into the sunset, it's a trippy experience, and disconcertingly tender amid its bursts of violence.-- "The Portland Mercury" Review Quotes : Gripping to the very last panel. This is an essential purchase.-- "The Quietus" Review Quotes : I can't think of another example in comics to compare to Clowes at this point in his career: never to my knowledge has an artist with so many phenomenal books to his name made such a shift in his style so dramatically and so successfully.-- "The Seattle Review of Books" Review Quotes : Deeply felt and winding story of love and the limits of time nestled within an operatic science-fiction structure that is bursting with wild colors and page design.-- "Artinfo" Review Quotes : Some of the freakiest art Clowes has ever drawn.-- "New York Magazine" Review Quotes : Each panel reminds us that every moment matters.-- "Slate" Review Quotes : You turn a page and boom, an enormous spread punches you in the face.-- "The Seattle Weekly" Review Quotes : His most complex narrative yet.-- "WIRED" Publisher Marketing : Patience is a psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially "Clowesian"and utterly unique in the author's body of work. This 180-page, full-color original graphic novel affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberant and breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/22/2016 (EAN 9781606999059, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 04/15/2016 pg. 41 (EAN 9781606999059, Hardcover) - *Starred Review School Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 169 (EAN 9781606999059, Hardcover) Library Journal 09/15/2016 pg. 70 (EAN 9781606999059, Hardcover) Wilson Graphic Novels Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781606999059, Hardcover) Contributor Bio: Clowes, Daniel Daniel Clowes is a Harvey, Eisner, Ignatz, and PEN America Literary Award Winner whose comics and graphic novels have been translated into over 20 languages worldwide. He is also an Academy Award nominated screenwriter (for Ghost World ), and retrospectives of his work have appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Oakland Museum, and the Wexner Center in Columbus, OH. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and son.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 180 | Publication Date: 2016-03-21