It’s a good day for Powell’s readings. Tonight at the downtown store, legendary cartoonist Daniel Clowes presents a new collection of his Eisner-winning strip Mister Wonderful. Here’s what Courtney had to say about it:
The titular Mister Wonderful is Marshall—divorced sad sack, desperate for love and someone to eat bagels with—who anxiously awaits a blind date with Natalie. As the minutes tick by, Natalie apparently a no-show, Marshall laments his miserable luck with women, his interior monologue chattering away, rife with self-hatred and self-importance. Dude’s not very likeable. He’s broke, proud, laughably crotchety with a hair-trigger temper, and thoroughly up his own ass. But he’s also very human. It’s a testament to Clowes’ prowess that he’s able to make readers see themselves in this tragic little man, even if the reflection is of our mean and insecure ways.