Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes , born the April 14th 1962 with Chicago is an American author of cartoons .

Comics

He studies the drawing of manner rather academic in Pratt Institute of Brooklyn but condidère like an autodidact. Not finding work with New York, it returns to Chicago and makes its true beginnings of author of cartoons in Love and Rockets n° 13 in 1985. In 1986, it publishes its first comic book at Fantagraphics Books, Lloyd Llewellyn (6 numbers), which will be followed of Eightball (1989), which always appears and in which will be prépubliées all the stories now taken again in albums. Its precise drawing, its constant environments fifties, its return tickets between topics intimists, fantastic, science fictions, car-fiction, etc, are its trademark. DaN Clowes is close to Adrian Tomine of which it is the major influence.

With Ghost World (which will be adapted to the cinema) it holds the record of the sales of its editor, Fantagraphics Books (100 000 specimens). It gained several prices for its work, in particular of the Harvey Award S in 1997 and 2005 for the scenario of Eightball .

With the cinema

Clowes was brought to work as scenario writer of cinema within the framework of adaptations of its film works. The first of these films is Ghost World , left in 2000, carried out by Terry Zwigoff. In 2006, it writes the scenario of Art school confidential , film based in a very abstract way on a history of Eightball , also realized by Terry Zwigoff.

Publications

Like a velvet glove taken in the cast iron , Cornélius, 1999, ISBN 2-909990-45-1 (original title: Like has Velvet Glove Cast in Iron )
Ghost World , Vertige Graphic, 1999, ISBN 2-908981-42-4 and ISBN 2-908981-62-9
Caricature , Rackham, 2000, ISBN 2-87827-037-1
David Boring , Cornélius, 2002 ISBN 2-909990-71-0
Pussey! , Rackham, 2002 ISBN 2-87827-057-6
Ice Haven , Cornélius, 2006

External bond

Interview of daN Clowes (initially appeared in the magazine Jade, 1999

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