Question: Information: - Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint. Many notable cartoonists publish their work through Fantagraphics, including Jessica Abel, Peter Bagge, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Mary Fleener, Roberta Gregory, Joe Sacco, Chris Ware, and Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez a.k.a. the Hernandez Brothers. - Daniel Gillespie Clowes (born April 14, 1961) is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter. Most of Clowes's work first appeared in "Eightball", a solo anthology comic book series. An "Eightball" issue typically contained several short pieces and a chapter of a longer narrative that was later collected and published as a graphic novel, such as "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron" (1993), "Ghost World" (1997), and "David Boring" (2000). Clowess illustrations have appeared in "The New Yorker", "Newsweek", "Vogue", "The Village Voice", and elsewhere. With filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, Clowes adapted "Ghost World" into a 2001 film and another "Eightball" story into the 2006 film, "Art School Confidential". Clowess comics, graphic novels, and films have received numerous awards, including a Pen Award for Outstanding Work in Graphic Literature, over a dozen Harvey and Eisner Awards, and an Academy Award nomination. - David Boring is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes. It was serialized in issues #1921 of Clowes's comic book "Eightball" and appeared in collected form from Pantheon Books in 2000. - The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer, the "Voice" began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. Since its founding, "The Village Voice" has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award and the George Polk Award. Among news sources, "The Village Voice" is known for its combination of in-depth news reporting and arts & culture coverage, with a particular focus on the arts communities of New York City. "The Village Voice" has hosted a broad variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry, and art critics Robert Christgau and J. Hoberman. In addition to daily coverage through its website and a weekly print edition that circulates in New York City, the "Voice" issues a weekly digital edition of its magazine. - The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It is published by Conde Nast. Started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. - Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine founded in 1933. It was published in four English language editions and 12 global editions written in the language of the circulation region. - A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content. Although the word "novel" normally refers to long fictional works, the term "graphic novel" is applied broadly and includes fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work. It is distinguished from the term "comic book", which is used for comics periodicals. - The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Topffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as "The Adventures of Tintin". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World WarII era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia. - A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, "Famous Funnies", was released in the United States in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term "comic book" derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone. - The fantastic is a subgenre of literary works characterized by the ambiguous presentation of seemingly supernatural forces. - The supernatural (Medieval Latin: "superntrlis": "supra" "above" + "naturalis" "natural", first used: 15201530 AD) includes all that cannot be explained by science or the laws of nature, including things characteristic of or relating to ghosts, gods, or other supernatural beings, or to things beyond nature. - Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes . The book follows a rather fantastic and paranoid plot , very different from the stark realism of Clowes ' later more widely known Ghost World . It contains nightmarish imagery , including dismemberment , deformed people and animals , and sexual fetishism . Clowes has talked about how the story was inspired by his dreams , as well as a recurring dream of his ex-wife 's : '' A lot of it is just daydreams , where ... I can just have these thoughts that are uncontrolled by common logic , and then I start to see things in a different way . It 's sort of the same thing as when you wake up from a long dream and you , for one minute , see the absurdity of the world . '' The book 's title is a quote from the Russ Meyer film Faster , Pussycat ! Kill ! Kill ! ( The full line , as delivered by Lori Williams , is '' You 're cute , like a velvet glove cast in iron . And like a gas chamber , Varla , a real fun gal. '' ) - Ghost World is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. It was serialized in issues #1118 (June 1993 March 1997) of Clowes's comic book series "Eightball", and was published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books. It was a commercial and critical success and developed into a cult classic. What is the relationship between 'like a velvet glove cast in iron' and 'fantagraphics books'?
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