Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron 
Has the American heartland ever looked more desolate and repulsive? Originally published in the pages of Dan Clowes one-man anthology Eightball (once described by Clowes himself as an orgy of spite, vengeance, hopelessness, despair and sexual perversion), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron takes the reader on an obsessive, disturbing, darkly humorous, often surreal and grotesque journey into a seedy world of corruption, sadism and conspiracy theories. Whats not to like?
This is the most clausterhobic, over-bearingly lynchian thing I've ever seen in the comic medium. A cast of freakish characters whose stories bump into each other without really interweaving. It's an intense, disorienting, noir-ish nightmare.

Imagine Hardcore (that '79 porn-daughter flick with George C. Scott) crossed with Eraserhead, crossed with that dream you keep having where this deformed cephalopod with a major crush on you keeps leaving her sticky light-beaming eggs in your bed. But better than all of them combined.
This is the first Daniel Clowes graphic novel I have read and it was recommended by my friend Zachary and a friend of his from college last time we were at Quimby's book store in Chicago together. This has a very fantastical nature to it and is dark and grim. It begins with a gritty film in an adult movie house, a toilet guru, and a dark adventure based around a historical symbol that appears innocent from the outset-like a pudgy face with a cute miniature hat on it...drunkards, commune
Wow. This one is a hard one to categorize. Fantasy/Sci-Fi would be a place to start, maybe. Mind-melding-trip-and-a-half might be another. So outrageous you better not be drinking coffee with someone sitting directly sitting in front of you would be yet another, because I was seriously laughing OUT LOUD, though thankfully the other person was quietly sitting up in bed next to me late at night, no coffee anywhere in sight, though he was trying to quietly read about the not so quiet or gentle
Whenever I take this book down from the shelf and open it to a random page, I am reminded that the characters and situations in it are what's not supposed to exist in the world. It's very dark. The dog, Laura, struck me as a very intense idea. Clowes used dogs who were born without any orifices in other stories too, and it's a very good example of how a strange, impossible occurance can make a reader feel like their life is pointless and gorgeous and incredibly confusing.
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Title | : | Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron |
Author | : | Daniel Clowes |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 200 pages |
Published | : | January 17th 1993 by Fantagraphics (first published 1993) |
Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics. Comix |
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Like a Velvet Glove... collects all 10 chapters of the serialized story Eightball. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into the heel of Clay's foot; a horny over-the-hill suburban woman whose sexual encounter with a mysterious water creature produced a grotesquely misshapen, but no less horny, mutant daughter; a dog with no orifices whatsoever (it has to be fed by injection); two ominous victims of extremely bad hair implants; a charismatic Manson-like cult leader who plans to kidnap a famous advice columnist and many more! This edition has a brand new cover, new title and end pages — plus: Clowes being the perfectionist that he is, there are tweaked and re-drawn panels that really make this a transcendent piece of storytelling art!Describe Books Toward Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Original Title: | Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron |
ISBN: | 1560971169 (ISBN13: 9781560971160) |
Edition Language: | English |
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If Dan Clowes died after producing this warped masterpiece he would have gone down in history as some demented prophet. "Like A Velvet Glove" was produced mostly around 1990-1991 when companies like Something Weird Video were unearthing every disturbing B-movie ever created, and that's the vibe this book recalls. A man watches a snuff film written by a pipe-smoking midget named "Precious". In pursuit to find out more about the movie he runs afoul of a Manson-type murder cult and a map hiddenHas the American heartland ever looked more desolate and repulsive? Originally published in the pages of Dan Clowes one-man anthology Eightball (once described by Clowes himself as an orgy of spite, vengeance, hopelessness, despair and sexual perversion), Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron takes the reader on an obsessive, disturbing, darkly humorous, often surreal and grotesque journey into a seedy world of corruption, sadism and conspiracy theories. Whats not to like?
This is the most clausterhobic, over-bearingly lynchian thing I've ever seen in the comic medium. A cast of freakish characters whose stories bump into each other without really interweaving. It's an intense, disorienting, noir-ish nightmare.

Imagine Hardcore (that '79 porn-daughter flick with George C. Scott) crossed with Eraserhead, crossed with that dream you keep having where this deformed cephalopod with a major crush on you keeps leaving her sticky light-beaming eggs in your bed. But better than all of them combined.
This is the first Daniel Clowes graphic novel I have read and it was recommended by my friend Zachary and a friend of his from college last time we were at Quimby's book store in Chicago together. This has a very fantastical nature to it and is dark and grim. It begins with a gritty film in an adult movie house, a toilet guru, and a dark adventure based around a historical symbol that appears innocent from the outset-like a pudgy face with a cute miniature hat on it...drunkards, commune
Wow. This one is a hard one to categorize. Fantasy/Sci-Fi would be a place to start, maybe. Mind-melding-trip-and-a-half might be another. So outrageous you better not be drinking coffee with someone sitting directly sitting in front of you would be yet another, because I was seriously laughing OUT LOUD, though thankfully the other person was quietly sitting up in bed next to me late at night, no coffee anywhere in sight, though he was trying to quietly read about the not so quiet or gentle
Whenever I take this book down from the shelf and open it to a random page, I am reminded that the characters and situations in it are what's not supposed to exist in the world. It's very dark. The dog, Laura, struck me as a very intense idea. Clowes used dogs who were born without any orifices in other stories too, and it's a very good example of how a strange, impossible occurance can make a reader feel like their life is pointless and gorgeous and incredibly confusing.
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