![]() ![]() ![]() As unlikable as Wilson is, the book helped pack Skylight Books a few weeks ago and has already become Clowes’ bestselling work. But so far he’s been good for this cartoonist who broke into the mainstream with “Ghost World” and has defined a whole subgenre of post-Crumb, post-Spiegelman “alternative comics” since. ![]() He’s Wilson - the main character in Daniel Clowes’ new graphic novel “Wilson” (Drawn and Quarterly: 78 pp., $21.95) and, it’s worth remembering, not Clowes himself. He has no job and no family, and he’s both totally oblivious and smart enough to know how insufferable he is. He’s full of odes to the sweep of life and won’t stop sharing them with the strangers he accosts in coffee shops. He’s the kind of guy who waxes rhapsodic about his love for the human race but curses people who don’t smile at his dog. ![]()
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