David Boring

David Boring is a comic series and graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. It was originally serialized as issues #19 through 21 of the comic book Eightball before being published in collected form by Pantheon Books in 2000. In 2005, Time chose it as one of the 10 Best graphic novels ever written.

The book depicts the misadventures of its eponymous character, whose main interests are finding the "perfect woman" and learning more about his father, an obscure comic artist whom he has never met. All this occurs in a nameless American city, against the background of a looming nuclear conflict. Trying to imagine what a one-sentence sales pitch for David Boring would sound like, Clowes told an interviewer "It's like Fassbinder meets half-baked Nabokov on Gilligan's Island."