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The Death-Ray
Hardcover, 48 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, List Price: $19.95 | purchase
Book Summary
Teen outcast Andy, upon smoking his first cigarette, gets an impressive set of superpowers and discovers a ray gun that delivers a fatal blast, in a full-color graphic novel by the acclaimed creator of Ghost World.
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NPR stories about The Death-Ray
Best Books Of 2011
Six Graphic Novels That Will Draw You In
December 21, 2011 Critic Dan Kois selects the standout graphic novels of the year, which include books from France and Japan, explicit picaresques, hard-boiled mysteries, memoirs, fairy tales and new twists on old classics.
Book Reviews
Teen Tormentors Get Their Due In 'Death-Ray'
October 12, 2011 The latest from cartoonist Daniel Clowes isn't meant to thrill. It's meant to unnerve. The 48 pages of The Death-Ray are supersaturated with art, dialogue and ideas — not to mention bitter high school vengeance.
Excerpt: 'The Death-Ray'
October 11, 2011 Andy, a miserable high-schooler in 1970s Chicago is filled with shame at the constant taunts of his classmates. So when super-strength comes, he uses it for neither good nor evil, but in a brutal playground showdown. Read an excerpt from The Death-Ray by Daniel Clowes.
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