Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
1993 graphic novel by Dan Clowes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes. The book follows a fantastic and paranoid plot, differing in tone 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.
Author | Dan Clowes |
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Illustrator | Dan Clowes |
Cover artist | Dan Clowes |
Language | English |
Subject | Horror, Surrealism |
Genre | Comics |
Publisher | Fantagraphics |
Publication date | 1993 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print, Paperback |
Pages | 144 |
ISBN | 1-56097-116-9 |
OCLC | 28385891 |
Preceded by | #$@ &!: The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection |
Followed by | The Manly World of Lloyd Llewellyn: a Golden Treasury of his Complete Works |
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.[1]
The book's title is a quote from the Russ Meyer film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill![1] (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.")