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‘I don’t know if many people do a graphic novel the way I did this one’: Talking with Rick Altergott about Blessed Be
John Kelly talks to the Doofus cartoonist about the long road towards getting his new graphic novel published.
“This Book Is About My Hatred Of Chaos”: Daniel Clowes on Monica
There’s been a few Daniel Clowes interviews in the last few weeks, but none go as deep as John Kelly does today. Learn the secrets of Monica – or at least as many as the author is willing to tell.
Remembering Justin Green
An extraordinary group of artists, friends and admirers has been gathered by John Kelly to pay tribute to the great Justin Green, one of the most influential and powerful storytellers of the underground generation.
“Richard”
A remembrance of cartoonist Richard Sala, by his longtime friend Daniel Clowes.
“I Feel Like Comics Needs Its Own Thing”: An Interview with Daniel Clowes
Bill Kartalopoulos and Daniel Clowes played a career-long-catch-up in 2014 for the French journal Collection Revue, and that conversation now makes its way to our digital shores!
Ghost World at Twenty: Daniel Clowes’s Dialogue
Innovation in the 1990s: a comic book in which people talk like people.
“Unholy Momentum”: Daniel Clowes’s Patience
Digging into Clowes’s masterpiece with commentary and annotations on everything from the comic’s obscure allusions to its cosmic themes.
Daniel Clowes and Patience: An Interview
A conversation about process, structure, and aesthetics.
The Truth about America’s Superheroes; Or, Real-Life Revisionism.
In one image, Daniel Clowes defeats the superhero. Also: Eugenics, Fetishes, Word Games, Race, Feminism, Fredric Wertham, Corporate Branding, Libertarians, Pajamas, Stan Lee, Graffiti, The Austrian School of Economics, and much more!
A Lost Daniel Clowes Interview
In this 20-year-old, never-before-published interview, Daniel Clowes discusses working with the Ramones and his stint as “Stosh Gillepsie.”
Frightened Control Freaks: An Interview with Daniel Clowes
The cartoonist and screenwriter talks about the nightmare of putting together The Complete Eightball, cultural alienation, control-freak artists, and Woody Harrelson’s casting in the film adaptation of Wilson.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/1/15 – Hi Dad, Happy Birthday, I’m in Comics)
The Upcoming Past.
The Daniel Clowes Interview
In this 1992 interview from The Comics Journal #154, Gary Groth and Peter Bagge talk with Daniel Clowes about art school, Lloyd Llewellyn, and the beginnings of Eightball.
Comics Survey: Word / Art, Part I
In Part I of this two-part survey, Ken Parille reviews twelve comic books and graphic novels, paying attention to the words they use.
Tributes to Kim Thompson
Memories from David B., Peter Bagge, Mike Catron, Daniel Clowes, Helena G. Harvilicz, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Paul Karasik, Jason T. Miles, Tony Millionaire, Pat Moriarty, Eric Reynolds, Richard Sala, Joe Sacco, Chris Ware, and many others.
Chicago: Comics on the Make
“Comics: Philosophy & Practice” gathered seventeen luminaries of the medium to discuss what it all means.
One-Artist Anthology Comics
As if it weren’t enough that comics are the domain of the obsessive control freak, there is a cartooning sect that perfectly defines the creative mania responsible for some of our greatest works: the one-artist anthology. This is its history.
Recently Read
What’s been off the shelf and on the desk: Everett, Sottsass, Clowes, Kirchner, Erro and X-Force.
2011: A Year in Comic Ambition.
The first GRID of the new year looks at a handful of comics and graphic novels from 2011.
Moving Mister Wonderful
Daniel Clowes on translating his comic from The New York Times to its own book
