Twentieth Century Eightball by Daniel Clowes

A collection of short, often darkly comic and surreal graphic stories and strips drawn from a long-running alternative-comics series, juxtaposing sharp satire of pop culture and suburban life with themes of alienation, failed relationships, grotesque absurdity, and melancholy; rendered in stark black-and-white art, the pieces range from cynical humor to haunting, dreamlike narratives that blend wit and unease.