A young man goes back in time to solve his wife’s murder in Clowes’s first graphic novel in five years
A new book by Daniel Clowes is a huge event: witness the fact that, as I write, Patience, his first graphic novel for five years, is at No 2 in the New York Times bestseller list. Fans, though, may be taken aback by this one’s tone. Clowes’s stories are always peopled with the difficult characters he finds so intriguing, misfits to whom terrible – even grotesque – things frequently seem to happen. But Patience, set both in the future and the recent past, has a desperation and a bleakness that is all its own. A tale of murder, wrongful conviction, obsessive love, poverty and domestic violence, Patience’s bright colours have an in-built irony even before we get to its protagonists’ raging, meaty faces. By rights, this one should come not in shades of red, green, blue and yellow, but in a Chandler-esque monochrome, all shadows and cigarette smoke and sombre grey overcoats.
The next time we meet him, it’s 2029, and his hair is almost white
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