David Boring

Daniel Clowes’s David Boring is a single-issue graphic novel from Pantheon, first published in 2002, that distills the creator’s signature blend of deadpan absurdity and psychological unease. The story follows its eponymous, emotionally detached protagonist through a surreal, noir-tinged landscape of obsession, violence, and identity. Clowes, both writer and artist, crafts a dense, meticulously rendered world that rewards rereading, making this a key work in his celebrated, often unsettling oeuvre.