Daniel Clowes

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Todd Hignite just added a great selection of original art by Daniel Clowes spanning the early years of Eightball to his most recent graphic novel Patience, and all of it offered for the first time. https://www.toddhignite.com/daniel-clowes-original-art

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Get in on the action! This original "Orgy Bound" drawing and much more are on sale now at toddhignite.com/daniel-clowes.

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Hear ye, hear ye! DanielClowes.com has been redesigned and officially launched today! http://www.danielclowes.com/

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Daniel Clowes has a two page spread in the newest issue of RESIST!, the comics anthology newspaper edited by Nadja Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly.

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The esteemed The Criterion Collection is adding the Ghost World film to their collection and releasing a new package designed by Daniel Clowes. 

https://www.criterion.com/films/28687-ghost-world

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La Monde talks about the French edition of Patience published by Cornelius!

http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2016/10/20/essais-recit-bd-quatre-livres-pour-ce-week-end-et-au-dela_5016808_3260.html

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It's here! The official trailer for the major motion picture Wilson by Daniel Clowes!

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International editions of Ghost World! Spain, Japan, and Germany. 

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Sneak peak of the new cover for Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. Pre-order for this edition coming soon!

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Daniel Clowes

Comics creator Daniel Clowes sat down with me at the Small Press Expo (SPX) in North Bethesda, Md. to chat about time travel, trusting your gut, and the beauty of solitude.

Cover of Patience, (Fantagraphics 2016) by Daniel Clowes.

LA: Your new book Patience deals with time travel as a way to fix your life. If you could travel back in time, what advice would you give 20 year old Daniel? Would you change anything?

DC: I thought about that a lot working on this book because this book really is about the dialogue between the older version of a person and the younger innocent naive version of that person. But I don’t know, I think things sort of fell into place in this miraculous way in my life, so I would hate to upset that. And anyway I would hate to say, “Don’t do that, that’s stupid!” because that might have been the fulcrum that everything hinged on that allowed me to be still drawing comics at 55 years old. 

I just remember what an awful person I was, and everybody is, when they’re in their early twenties. They just don’t know how self focused they are. Maybe it’s just because I’m reflecting on how I was at that age, but I was so incredibly living in my own head, completely unaware of how much of an effect I have on other people. It was just all about my own tortured soul at that young age, and it’s hard to look back on your early work and not see that and think, “Oh come on man, get over that.”

Panel from Patience by Daniel Clowes.

LA:  Do you think that it’s important to be like that a little bit in order to do anything so crazy as start your own comic series and do your own thing that no one’s done before?

DC: It’s kind of one hundred percent part of it. I think you have to be a little bit of a delusional megalomaniac to ever think like, “I’m going to sit in my room for months and draw this, and then everybody is going to love it and I’ll make a living off doing that and I’ll find a mate in the world!” I think you have to be in that mindset a little bit at that age and it’s a stage of growth that if you don’t go through this kind of crazy time where you’re examining who you are in the world and trying to figure that out that you will just sort of stay stuck in that time of life.

LA: Do you ask for feedback now that you’re older?

DC: [Laughs] No, I don’t. I mean that’s kind of what I love about doing comics is that the stakes are low enough that there’s nobody micromanaging what you do. There’s no money invested it in it at all. It’s not like they have to hire focus groups and things like that before you even get started– there’s no overhead. My only overhead is like buying paper so it’s the cheapest. I just don’t like to get anybody else involved in the process– it’s too much to put on them. If I were to have to bounce things off of my wife, I’d be mad at her all the time. You just have to trust yourself because there’s no other way to do it I don’t think.

Two-page spread from Patience by Daniel Clowes.

LA: Any advice for young artists out there?

DC:  The purpose of art for me, is to be able to see the world from an inside somebody else’s head. I think you should just make sure that what you’re drawing is really you– really personal, really intimate, really honest– and drawn in the way that you actually see and feel the world, and not based on something else.

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Daniel Clowes spoke with NPR Illustration about Patience at SPX! 

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Crockett Johnson's BARNABY series is beautifully designed by Daniel Clowes. Volume 3 of the series hit stores today! fantagraphics.com/barnaby3 #design

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2006! #tbt Time travel page from Patience.

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Growing up, cartoonist Daniel Clowes liked to draw, but he never thought he’d make much of a career out of it. “I was expecting to work for Cracked magazine for four years, and then try to get work putting up aluminum siding or something, doing my prison drawings while I was down for a DUI,” he jokes to Fresh Air’s Sam Briger.

But instead Clowes, 55, has become one of the most influential artists in the independent comics world. His comics Ghost World and Art School Confidential have been adapted into movies, and Clowes was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for Ghost World.

Read more / listen to the interview:

Cartoonist Daniel Clowes On Time Travel And Giving Readers Their Money’s Worth

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Daniel Clowes discusses Patience and The Complete Eightball with Sam Briger on NPR: Fresh Air with Terry Gross!

“The cartoonist, graphic novelist, and screenwriter Daniel Clowes has been one of the most influential artist in the independent comics world for the last 3 decades.” – Terry Gross, NPR: Fresh Air

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/12/477352896/cartoonist-daniel-clowes-on-time-travel-and-giving-readers-their-moneys-worth

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#GhostWorld is now streaming on @hulu. Try to contain your excitement. http://www.hulu.com/watch/930093

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Front endpapers from Patience. #design 

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Daniel Clowes provides an illustrated portrait of Don DeLillo for an essay about Zero K in New York Magazine’s Vulture. 

http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/genius-of-don-delillos-post-underworld-work.html

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Panel from Patience. #timetravel