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| | Daniel Clowes |
 | | The film expands on a short comic story by Dan Clowes that was originally published in his comic book series Eightball (and later collected in the book Twentieth Century Eightball), though features an entirely new narrative only tangentially resembling the original comic. |
 | | Also included is Clowes' hilariously Freudian deconstruction of professional athletes, "On Sports," which caused a stir in San Antonio last year when reprinted in the city's most popular weekly paper, prompting an advertising boycott and demands for the paper to be destroyed by local sports fans. |
 | | Twenty-seven vaguely inter-related stories rannging in length from 1 to 3 pages, drawn in a variety of different styles, featuring various all-new characters (an angry bachelor, a love-sick teenager, an over-sensitive 10-year-old, a comic-book critic, a husband and wife detective team, a depressed caveman, etc.) as they cross paths in a small midwestern town. |
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