The theme of alienation is also evident in his highly praised graphic novel 'David Boring', collected in book format by Pantheon Books in 2000. In 2006, Zwigoff also adapted 'Art School Confidential' to film. In 2001, Clowes participated in MGM's cinema adaptation of 'Ghost World', directed by Terry Zwigoff. The artist's mastery of bringing comic characters to life is such that his best-seller 'Ghost World' features two completely convincing teenage girls - no small feat for a male artist in his forties. 'The Further Adventures of David Boring' (Eightball, 1999).Ī recurring theme in Clowes' work is the feeling of isolation in a world replete with erotic stimuli and consumer goods that haunts his main characters. The Dan Pussey stories were collected in the comics novella 'Pussey!', a funny who's-who-in-U.S.-comix, featuring Art Spiegelman and Harvey Kurtzman. This included short stories, starring characters like the frustrated comic artist Dan Pussey, but also serials like the nighmarish 'Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron', 'Ghost World' and 'The Further Adventures of David Boring'.įantagraphics has published most of the short stories that were serialized in 'Eightball' in book collections like 'Orgy Bound' (1996), 'Caricature' (1998), 'Twentieth Century Eightball' (2002). In October of the following year, he came up with 'Eightball', in which he published most of his work from then on. 'Bill Trouble' (The Previous Future #1, 1981).

Between April 1986 and December 1988, Clowes published his own 'Lloyd Llewellyn' comic books with Fantagraphics, after having introduced the character in Love & Rockets in 1985.

He was a regular in Cracked magazine from 1985 to 1989 with features like 'The Uggly Family'. He made his debut in the first issue of Psycho Comics in 1981, and throughout the decade, he has contributed to Look Mom Presents, Love & Rockets, Anything Goes, Doomsdag Squad, Twist, Judo Joe, Prime Cuts, Amazing Heroes, Village Voice, Weirdo, Young Lust and National Lampoon. He has also expressed admiration for 'outsider artists' like Jack Chick and J.H. Among his graphic influences were Ernie Bushmiller, Al Capp, Robert Crumb, Hergé, Harvey Kurtzman, Harvey Pekar, Al Wiseman, Jim Woodring and Basil Wolverton. Daniel Clowes is part of the second generation of American underground comix artists.Ĭlowes was born in Chicago, and attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

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