Wilson.

When I was growing up I always suffered the embarrassment of my father talking to anyone who would listen... my Dad talks more to the person sitting on the other side of him than me when we attend baseball games... if you ask him why... the response will be the same every time... "I find people interesting."... in that way my father and I are polar opposites... I avoid talking to strangers at all costs... maybe that's why I've spent the past 20 years with headphones on... I just make fun of strangers to the person I'm with... and on occasion to their face... it depends on my level of intoxication at the time... and shockingly enough... up until this point I haven't had my ass kicked... and while I was reading the new graphic novel Wilson by Daniel Clowes... I thought to myself... he is exactly what my Dad and I would become if you could combine our personalities... it would be like releasing the ultimate talkative asshole accentuating negativity on society at every turn... but lucky for society... this will never happen... that doesn't mean we can't read about it and live vicariously through a cartoon character... Wilson is a 40 year old divorced loner... a loud mouth that will disrespect anyone willing to listen... and once again Clowes has developed a character that is self loathing and cynical... similar to Enid Coleslaw in his breakthrough novel Ghost World... Wilson is 71 standalone strips that shift styles and is Daniel's first book in five years... published by Drawn & Quarterly... and for some reason he chose a small publisher out of Montreal rather than a New York giant which he was used to with Pantheon... I'm sure this will end up on many best seller lists... and people everywhere will be laughing out loud at what it contains... and some... like myself... might just identify with him.
You can buy a copy of Wilson here.