The Daniel Clowes Reader

Unusual images, little-known fun facts, and more about the cartoonist Daniel Clowes. We'll also post on our book, THE DANIEL CLOWES READER, an anthology of comics, interviews, and essays about his work edited by Ken Parille.

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fall

new paperback version out this September

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Happy . . . Day . . .

The frame narrative of Daniel Clowes's The Death-Ray takes places on July 4th, 2004.

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People + Love

"I love people." (Clowes and Leib, Shut Up, Little Man!, 1993; Clowes, Wilson, 2010.

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Visi Goth

In honor of World Goth Day, here's that time Daniel Clowes drew some goths for Vogue:

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Clowes, Tomine, Sala

In the background of this Adrian Tomine panel from Shortcomings, he includes an images of one his books followed by comics from Bay Area cartoonist and best friends, Daniel Clowes and Richard Sala (RIP) 

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Danie Clowes on Richard Sala

Daniel Clowes writes a beautiful tribute to his best friend of three decades, the supremely talented cartoonist Richard Sala: 

http://www.tcj.com/richard/

Here is Clowes drawn by Sala:

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(art by Daniel Clowes, "666," Blab! #4, 1989)

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CB and DC

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INFO, INFO, INFO!

My Daniel Clowes Bibliography went online nineteen years ago today. Not much to look at, but a lot of info on his comic books, graphic novels, illustrations, LP/CD/45 covers, interviews, minicomics, prose, translations, toys, t-shirts, etc. https://tinyurl.com/rqrzhsv #danielclowes

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Japan Patience

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I should be overwhelmed, returning to the world of my childhood.

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“All these little things that get you moving to create art are very rarely anything noble. It’s all little pangs of ego, and things like that.“

A 2014 Daniel Clowes interview is online for the first time:

http://www.tcj.com/i-feel-like-comics-needs-its-own-thing-an-interview-with-daniel-clowes/

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