Daniel Clowes
Born: April 14, 1961
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Author and artist of some of the most popular alternative comic books out there Daniel Clowes is the Generation X graphic novel poster boy and saviour and sympathic heart to all the wierdos, screw-balls and drop-outs of the western world (and I mean that affectionately). The creator of Eightball (his own anthology series) which has amongst others spawned such hits as Ghost World (the film adapatation of which he wrote the screenplay for - fact fans) and David Boring ("It's like Fassbinder meets half-baked Nabokov on Gilligan's Island."). With a style that matches a sort of beat-poetry/jazz aesthetic with David Lynch strangeness - he is an aquired taste but one that is rich and full of strange and queasy joys. Indebted to Robert Crumb and the like but with a distinctive style all his own.
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Links: Rookie Mag Interview.
Selected works: #$@&!: The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection, Caricature, Ghost World, David Boring, Wilson, The Death Ray.
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