Patience (graphic novel)

Patience
Creator	Daniel Clowes
Date	2016
Page count	180 pages
Publisher	Fantagraphics
ISBN	978-1606999059
Chronology
Preceded by	The Death-Ray
Followed by	Monica

Patience (2016) is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, published by Fantagraphics.^[1] A science-fiction love story about time travel, it describes the misadventures of a man, Jack, after he finds his pregnant wife, Patience, murdered in their apartment. Many years later, when grief has destroyed his life, chance leads him to discover a time machine, which he plans to use to save Patience.

The book's tagline, in a surreal and tongue-in-cheek style typical of Clowes, is "a cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love". The book uses bright, contrasting colors to evoke atmosphere, as well as surrealistic sci-fi imagery when Jack free-falls between dimensions and has nightmarish visions of himself outside time and space. (Clowes's visual approach in his graphic novels tends to vary between full, even gaudy color, and muted blues and greens that create a black-and-white effect, as in Ghost World and David Boring.)