In his latest graphic novel, “Monica,” Daniel Clowes explores the inescapable power that our parents hold over us.
Many years ago, I was having dinner with a well-known writer and his then-12-year-old daughter when the subject turned to the poet Philip Larkin. Without warning, the writer and his daughter began to recite Larkin’s funniest poem, “,” a famously vulgar, sing-songily serious joke about the harm that parents inevitably do to their children. Like a family vaudeville act, they let Larkin’s perfect final lines lilt: “Man hands on misery to man./ It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Between the longer chapters of Monica’s life, Clowes intersperses a series of shorter, self-contained narratives that play with other genres. In one, two soldiers speak grimly about life in the Vietnam War; another finds a prodigal evading the eerie blue monster people who have taken over his hometown; and so on.
Clowes’s visual style is as crisp as ever, all controlled lines and spare colors even when his story explodes into prismatic anarchy, like a businessman in a gray flannel suit sporting a punky mohawk. Sometimes, dense cross-hatching amplifies his restrained inkwork, lending his characters an intermittent fleshy vitality for a panel or two, as if they were suddenly and uncomfortably aware of their own bodies.
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