{"id":81575,"date":"2026-06-26T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=81575"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:35:17","slug":"mister-wonderful-a-love-story-graphic-novel-by-daniel-clowes","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/mister-wonderful-a-love-story-graphic-novel-by-daniel-clowes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mister Wonderful: A Love Story; graphic novel by Daniel Clowes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;midlife romance&#8221; by Daniel Clowes (<em>Eightball<\/em>, <em>Ghost World<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clowes&#8217;s barbed comics, from <em>Ghost World<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>Ice Haven<\/em>, have struck a chord with many since he sprang on to the scene in the mid-1980s.\u00a0<em>Mister Wonderful<\/em>, an expanded version of a strip first published in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, is more uplifting than much of his work, but that doesn&#8217;t mean all goes well. Middle-aged divorcee Marshall hasn&#8217;t been on a date for six years when, his confidence boosted by a one-night-stand with a thieving drug addict, he agrees to meet a woman called Natalie in a coffee shop. Both are similarly troubled, but Marshall dominates the piece, his interior monologue flashing in great panels across\u00a0<em>Mister Wonderful<\/em>&#8216;s pages. The artwork is always enjoyable and this short, wry graphic novel suggests there&#8217;s hope for us all \u2013 even if we have to go through some gut-wrenching embarrassment to get there.&#8221; \u2014<em>The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hardcover, published in 2011 by Pantheon Books. Out of print; VF\/as new. [Graphic Novels, top shelf]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;midlife romance&#8221; by Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World). &#8220;Clowes&#8217;s barbed comics, from Ghost World\u00a0to\u00a0Ice Haven, have struck a chord with many since he sprang on to the scene in the mid-1980s.\u00a0Mister Wonderful, an expanded version of a strip first published in the New York Times, is more uplifting than much of his work, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":81576,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[7,168,105,109],"product_tag":[1090,1325],"class_list":["post-81575","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-arts-culture","product_cat-comix-cartoons","product_cat-fiction","product_cat-graphic-novels-comix","product_tag-daniel-clowes","product_tag-eightball","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/81575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=81575"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=81575"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=81575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}