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	Framed: A Critical Reading of Daniel Clowes' _David_Boring_
		Boring is instantly obsessed, again because of Wanda’s resemblance to his ideal woman, and briefly considers skipping Whitey’s funeral in order to pursue her on her trip.
		Boring becomes obsessed with Wanda’s sister, Judy, who he and Karkes track down, and although they eventually find Wanda, who is a member in a cult that believes that after death you have sex with God, he abandons her to pursue Judy, who is similarly endowed in the hips, but also married.
		As Boring is excluded from the world of normal, everyday relationships because of his extreme fetishization of a certain female figure, Dot is excluded from the world of normal relationships because of her status as a lesbian.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /narrative/comics/david_boring.htm (4522 words)

	Boring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boring (mechanical) is the formation of a cylindrical hole in a solid material.
		The boring for a tunnel or shaft is done by a highly specialized tunnel boring machine (TBM).
		David Boring is the title character of the Daniel Clowes graphic novel of the same name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boring (167 words)

	David Boring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Boring is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes starring an ordinary twenty-something named Boring, his lesbian best friend/roommate Dot, and their sometimes fantastic and othertimes mundane adventures in and out of big city life.
		David Boring strikes a delicate balance between the stark realism of Ghost World and the uncomfortable fantasy of Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.
		David Boring opens with a sex scene between David and a random girl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Boring (110 words)

	David Boring Information
		David Boring is a story told in the first person by its eponymous protagonist, concerning his sometimes fantastic and sometimes mundane exploits and misadventures in and out of big city life.
		David decides that, contrary to his earlier belief that Wanda was the fulfillment of his ideal, Wanda was in fact merely a flawed version of Judy.
		David studying his father's comics for clues about the man's personality is based on Clowes' similar study of the comics his older brother left behind when he moved out of the family home.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/David_Boring (1459 words)

	A Ministerial Enquiry: Examining David Boring
		David Boring is a complex tale that fulfills the promise of the earlier Velvet Glove story, which I found compelling but unsatisfyingly distant.
		David's taste in women, we will learn, is part of a dual obsession that haunts his consciousness and prevents him from connecting with anything in his current life.
		David Boring is not an easy story to wrap your brain around--I've read it twice all the way through and still feel there are layers yet to be peeled back.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /features/95754605050887.htm (800 words)

	SAVANT:: Dave Sim No Es El Diablo
		One of the feats of "David Boring" is that plot is not at all central to the appreciation of the book.
		David Boring is filled with posterior-infatuation, lesbians doubting their sexuality and slapstick gunshot wounds; what pulls the story together (and at times drags it along) are not these fetishes, which Clowes touches on in Eightball again and again, or the plot that violates narrative rules but escapes unscathed.
		The crux of David Boring, which Daniel Clowes agrees was relatively ignored when the collection was released, is the hysterical and clever meditation on storytelling.
	www.savantmag.com /67/essential.html (470 words)

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		David in particular is hard to understand his father, whom he knows exclusive direct an obscure humourous book titled 'The chromatic Streak.' Murder, obsession, sex, and war are every last evenhanded distractions as he tries to construct a commonsensible portrait from the inexact bits and pieces he finds in his travels.
		As a character, David Boring's exclusive significant traits are his fetish for fat-bottomed girls and the man-to-man issue of his father's humourous that he happens to own.
		David's fetish for his father's comic, and succeeding obsession to learn active the man from the unexhausted scraps of his work, leads to united to speculate active the triadic, feedback-loop-like relationship between creator, creation and reader.
	www.myfinanceaid.com /david-boring,0375714529_i.htm (1344 words)

	reVIEW --<kannenberg
		David Boring, Clowes's most recent long-form comics project, was initially serialized in three issues of his comics series Eightball, but its hardcover publication by Pantheon Books has broadened its potential audience from comics-shop devotees to casual bookstore browsers.
		Boring's own narration marks time for us, describing the events of his own life like a movie even he does not enjoy; his emotional distance from himself at first invites our pity, but eventually it simply distances our own emotions.
		Boring's other defining trait is his sexual desire, a numbing fascination with body types which ultimately reveals its source in a clandestine childhood encounter with his cousin Pamela.
	www.altx.com /ebr/reviews/rev12/r12kan.htm (1445 words)

	RobotFist - Comic Revisit - David Boring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because David Boring is a fascinating story about what it means to truly long for something, and I could sell a film like that to every corner of the earth.
		David Boring is a subtle drama with a great deal of raw emotion: heat, to counter the title character's seeming sang-froid.
		While David Boring may not be the most likeable of men, necessarily, with his carefully constructed standoffishness, he is undoubtedly a most sympathetic and fascinating character to watch.
	www.robotfist.com /protofist/021218/021218_54.html (565 words)

	village voice > vls > Marginalia by Richard Gehr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When a visiting friend is murdered and David returns to his hometown for the funeral, the radically passive protagonist meets his "feminine ideal" (a large-assed woman with phallic hair buns not unlike his mother's) on the bus to the airport.
		In its own way, David Boring is as schematic as the equally psychoanalytically saturated "Jimmy Corrigan" stories drawn by Chicago graphics darling Chris Ware (whose particular genius lies in his ability to recount the same tale of superhero-linked oedipal woe in countless art-deco-beholden ways).
		Boring's world is more bleak than those of either Velvet Glove, with its lonely misfit monsters, or Ghost World, whose Enid Coleslaw (dig the anagram) and Becky Doppelmeyer (dig the doubling) are ill-fated soul mates wrenched apart by boys and college.
	www.villagevoice.com /vls/169,gehr,18246,21.html (1103 words)

	Books : David Boring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David in particular is trying to understand his father, whom he knows only through an obscure comic book called "The Yellow Streak." Murder, obsession, sex, and war are all just distractions as he tries to construct a sensible portrait from the odd bits and pieces he finds in his travels.
		"David Boring" contains a surprisingly large number of panels of naked girls with large bottoms, and so is a tad embarrasing to read while commuting to work on the train.
		Clowes artwork on David Boring is, as usual, immaculate and he consistently manages to draw characters whose faces emote a sense of ennui yet manage to evoke in me a feeling of compassion that borders on pity.
	www.w3privacy.com /0375714529/David_Boring.html (671 words)

	UFL Conference on Comics & Graphic Novels 2002
		Seriality of this sort is not often considered in discussions of the graphic novel -- the "novel" being presented between two covers as a complete story -- but it is an inescapable fact of Eightball's publication, and of the monthly comics that provide much of the graphic novel's vocabulary.
		David Boring himself engages in a sort of comics "reading" more than once, studying the "rebus" left in Wanda's apartment (p.
		The essay concludes, then, by considering David Boring and the new, self-contained Eightball #22 as detective fictions of a peculiar sort, in that they require detective work from the reader and from the writer-in-process.
	web.english.ufl.edu /comics/Symposium/cates.html (378 words)

	David Boring by Daniel Clowes
		As a character, David Boring's only remarkable traits are his fetish for fat-bottomed girls and the single issue of his father's comic that he happens to own.
		David's fetish for his father's comic, and subsequent obsession to learn about the man from the remaining scraps of his work, leads to one to speculate about the triadic, feedback-loop-like relationship between creator, creation and reader.
		Clowes fetishists include: Boring, Boring's best friend Dot (whose obsession is saved for a graceful and quiet denouement), Boring's girlfriend Wanda, Wanda's lover, the Professor, Boring's mother and possibly Boring's father (although I haven't looked too closely at this possibility).
	www.book-summary-review.com /David-Boring-0375714529.htm (1081 words)

	Fast train to Weirdsville \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		David's long-absent father was a cartoonist in the 1950s and his garish Technicolor strip, "The Yellow Streak", is interspliced with Clowes's otherwise dramatically noirish panels.
		David struggles to formulate his identity through the past fragments of his father's comics, the shifting narrative of his own life ("what I had once thought was a romantic comedy is actually a horror story, complete with gothic effects") and his filmic aspirations ("I'm better than my father.
		David Boring might lack the bubble-gum charm and emotional charge of Ghost World, yet it is a subtle and intriguing book, whose compelling perplexity makes it well worth unlocking.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/artsandentertainment/0,6121,840831,00.html (709 words)

	What Lies Beneath?
		David Boring, Clowes's most recent long-form comics project, was initially serialized in three issues of his comics series Eightball, but its hardcover publication by Pantheon Books has broadened its potential audience from comics-shop devotees to casual bookstore browsers.
		Boring's father, we learn, had been a cartoonist, and a tattered copy of one of his father's works, The Yellow Streak, is his only link to his memory.
		Boring's other defining trait is his sexual desire, a numbing fascination with body types which ultimately reveals its source in a clandestine childhood encounter with his cousin Pamela.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/criticalecologies/illustrations (1434 words)

	David Boring (John's Book Pages)
		David Boring is a surreal graphic novel about a young security guard with an obsessive personality.
		He becomes involved with a woman who is bad news, spends time with his strange and screwed-up family, gets shot in the head twice, and doesn't care much that everyone is likely to soon perish in a holocaust.
		Although most of the panels are in fl and white, the few comic book pages David has that were drawn by his missing father are in color; he keeps trying to figure out what they mean, but he's unable to.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/davidboring.html (123 words)

	Column: Comics That Are Okay For Indie Snobs To Read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Boring is a tale of love lost, love found, terrorism, loneliness, fear, crime, sex, revenge and just about anything else you could possibly squeeze into a comic book.
		The murder of David's childhood fiend Whitey is balanced out by the thrill of a new relationship.
		David Boring was modeled after some of the more adventurous novels/plays of the past century, I see the book as more representative of everyday life.
	www.musicunderwater.com /column_great_indie_comics.htm (1308 words)

	BBC - collective - daniel clowes 'david boring' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Clowes’ new hero, David Boring, is as tortured and full of ennui as Ghost World’s Enid, continuing his dry-witted yet insightful dissection of suburban life.
		Boring is as ironic as his name - a tortured, wry obsessive whose encounter with the girl of his dreams sends him off into a revelation about life, love, death, and all their meanings.
		David Boring is published on 07 November, by Jonathan Cape.
	www1.thny.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A869899 (258 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Angst In My Pants (November 9 - November 15, 2000)
		Proving the point, Clowes' lastest graphic novel, David Boring, is an intelligent, artistically illustrated epic that manages to slyly mimick Goethe's literary masterpiece of obsession and ennui, The Sorrows of Young Werther, while simultaneously serving up a darkly comedic statement on being young, lost and sexually frustrated at the dawn of the 21st century.
		David Boring, the eponymous sadsack at the center of the novel, slumps through a noirish, fl-and-white cityscape full of deep shadows and tortured denizens.
		With David Boring, Daniel Clowes has not only made being Boring a cause for celebration, he has also thrown down the postmodern gauntlet for other graphic novelists by expertly twisting high and low art into a vividly original creation.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2000-11-09/book.html (489 words)

	BBC - collective - daniel clowes 'david boring'
		Clowes’ new hero, David Boring, is as tortured and full of ennui as Ghost World’s Enid, continuing his dry-witted yet insightful dissection of suburban life.
		Boring is as ironic as his name - a tortured, wry obsessive whose encounter with the girl of his dreams sends him off into a revelation about life, love, death, and all their meanings.
		David Boring is published on 07 November, by Jonathan Cape.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A869899 (258 words)

	Geek poet - [Sunday Herald]
		Another element in David Boring is the vintage cartoon book, The Yellow Streak, created by David's estranged father, then torn to shreds by his mother.
		Poised between darkness and wry humour, David Boring ends on an ambivalent note Ð a blend of reassuring warmth and niggling unease.
		David Boring is published by Jonathan Cape on November 7, priced £8.99.
	www.sundayherald.com /28478 (1326 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Columnists \| Far from Boring
		Often the town is more fully described as Boring Oregon, which means that you get Boring Oregon theatres, apartments, DJs and so on, though that merely succeeds in spreading the blight of boringness across the whole state.
		Listed Boring hotels, disappointingly, seems to be some way outside town, while not one of the Boring DJs comes from Boring.
		Well, it seems that a man called Boring was its leading figure in its earliest days, so much so that this still unnamed community came to be talked of as "the Boring neighbourhood".
	www.guardian.co.uk /Columnists/Column/0,5673,1291105,00.html (698 words)

	Varsity Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Daniel Clowes (David Boring) and Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan) are often referred to as the saviors of comics, reaching vast new audiences and illustrating the awesome potential of the faltering medium.
		David Boring was really the first thing I conceived from beginning to end as a longer story.
		I thought it was a real funny idea." At the end of chapter one (of three) Clowes' protagonist David Boring turns around to address a figure in the dark.
	www.varsity.utoronto.ca /archives/121/oct16/review/clowes.html (1374 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| What's the most boring place on Earth? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The only thing, which I found boring apart from the political aspect of the country, were some of the expats, who refused to mix with the local people and experience the different cultures of S.E.A. I think that these expats might be the ones who are inclined to say Singapore is boring.
		Nowhere is boring as long as you have access to an international airport, a sense of adventure or a good set of friends.
		We should be naming boring places that have "an obligation" not to be boring because of their size, importance of their country and number of people who actually visit it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/1482034.stm (2846 words)

	David Boring: Loose Threads and Five Card Nancy
		Since the novel is so frequently figured as an account of David’s sexual history, we might actually consider the boat and the mattress that we saw back in the first pages of chapter one [Figure 5] to be parallel vessels or small craft of various kinds on which David’s story moves forward.
		Twice, David himself is presented with a set of disconnected images or panels, and attempts to assemble meaning from them.
		As I implied, David’s interpretation of his father’s comic (conveniently preserved in whole or almost-whole panels so it can still be read) is analogous to our own experience in reading serialized fiction.
	www.english.ufl.edu /imagetext/archives/v1_1/cates (3458 words)

	post office: Il ragazzo che credevo di essere stato
		Perché il padre di David disegnava fumetti che non mostrava al figlio, e a essere ossessionati dalla vita, come lo è David, si finisce che si trovano sotto i battiscopa frammenti di carta disegnati dal padre, e su questi frammenti c'è una bomba che scoppia e le parole "The end".
		David invece finisce senza finire, in un modo sublime.
		David Boring è una delle vette più alte del fumetto americano (e mi sbilancio dicendo anche mondiale e di tutti i tempi).
	www.studiogradozero.it /blog/2005/06/il-ragazzo-che-credevo-di-essere-stato.html (593 words)

	dcd
		It was also incredible to see David Carson in person, the man that showed us what real creativity and freedom is, and who's work has had the most impact on many of us.
		davids design and art direction of the first cover of blue magazine was selected as #20.
		David will also be discussing many of his projects over the last decade, and premiering a few new ones.
	www.davidcarsondesign.com (4382 words)

	Indy Magazine
		In fact, obscured dialogue is a small example of a larger pattern of misdirection, incompleteness, and inference that we could call manipulations of "closure" in a more general, non-McCloudian sense of the word: as in Eightball 22, the fragmented narrative of "The Death-Ray" allows Clowes simultaneously to conceal and to reveal a central character's crimes.
		Ames and several characters in David Boring: Lieutenant Anemone and Agent Roy Smith, who may never get their man (or men?), as well as Professor Karkes and David himself, who enlist professional detective help in their quest for Wanda because their clues lead nowhere.
		David's persistent study of the Yellow Streak Annual for clues about his father, however, is another sort of search for meaning: a sort of literary criticism.
	www.indyworld.com /indy/summer_2004/review_eightball (3399 words)

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