Capon, who later disappears that very night.

While on the island, David has a sexual tryst with his mother's cousin, Mrs.

David's great-uncle August shows up, proclaims that terrorist gas attacks have contaminated the mainland, and later dies. After sinking into an all-consuming depression for weeks, David is shot in the head by an unknown attacker in front of his own home, but survives with only a small dent in his forehead.ĭavid, his mother, their extended family, and David's roommate and friend Dot all end up stranded on a small island, Hulligan's Wharf, which the family owns and uses for vacations. Soon after attending the funeral of a friend, David meets, dates, and is abandoned by Wanda, a woman whom he considers the perfect fulfillment of this ideal.

Much of the plot of the book concerns David's attempt to obtain a woman whom he considers his feminine ideal, based largely on the characteristics of his first cousin, Pamela, with whom he shared some innocent adolescent kisses at a family summer retreat. Plot ĭavid 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. The pages were printed in a relatively large 10 + 1⁄ 2-×- 7 + 1⁄ 2-inch (27 × 19 cm) format. Pantheon Books published a hardcover collected version later in 2000 and followed with a softcover version in 2002. Trying to imagine what a one-sentence sales pitch for David Boring would sound like, Clowes told an interviewer 'It's like Fassbinder meets half-baked Nabokov on Gilligan's Island.' Publication ĭavid Boring 's three chapters (which Clowes called 'acts') first appeared from May 1998 to February 2000 in issues #19–21 of Clowes's comic book Eightball, published by Fantagraphics Books.

All this occurs in a nameless American city, against the background of a looming conflict involving germ warfare. The book depicts the misadventures of its eponymous character, whose main interests are finding the 'perfect woman' and learning more about his father, an obscure comic artist whom he has never met. It was serialized in issues #19–21 of Clowes's comic book Eightball and appeared in collected form from Pantheon Books in 2000. Cover of the original hardback edition of David Boringĭavid Boring is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes.

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