20th Century Eightball

Before the Ghost World graphic novel and film propelled Daniel Clowes to international superstardom as the preeminent cartoonist of his generation, his ongoing comic book Eightball was already the most talked-about series of the 1990s. Renowned for its gleefully incisive social satire and riotous absurdity, Entertainment Weekly proclaimed it the year's best regularly published comic book upon its debut in 1989. The Village Voice proclaimed it brilliant, and Art Spiegelman called it curdlingly good. Simpsons creator Matt Groening has repeatedly called it his favorite comic book.