Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron

Fiction

Author: Daniel Clowes

Like a Velvet Glove… collects all 10 chapters of the serialized story Eightball. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into the heel of Clay’s foot; a horny over-the-hill suburban woman whose sexual en….Read More

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