In 1989, Fantagraphics published the first issue of Clowes's comic book Eightball. JSTOR ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section.

This section needs additional citations for verification. Later, he received 'piles of 1950s and 1960s classic titles like Archie and The Fantastic Four' from his older brother, who also introduced him to the work of legendary cartoonist R. Īccording to Clowes scholar Ken Parille, the cartoonist had an early response to a 'graphic' comic when, at age four, he burst into tears and began hitting his head against a wall after seeing a cover of a Strange Adventures comic book that depicted a family dying of heat. It was at Pratt that he met and befriended fellow cartoonist Rick Altergott, with whom he started the small-press comics publisher Look Mom Comics. In 1979, he finished high school at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he earned a BFA in 1984. His mother was Jewish, whereas his father was from a 'reserved WASPish Pennsylvania' family Clowes's upbringing was not religious. Clowes's comics, graphic novels, and films have received numerous awards, including a Pen Award for Outstanding Work in Graphic Literature, over a dozen Harvey and Eisner Awards, and an Academy Award nomination.Įarly life and career, 1961–1988 Ĭlowes was born in Chicago, Illinois, to an auto mechanic mother and a furniture craftsman father. With filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, Clowes adapted Ghost World into a 2001 film and another Eightball story into the 2006 film, Art School Confidential. Clowes's illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vogue, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. An Eightball issue typically contained several short pieces and a chapter of a longer narrative that was later collected and published as a graphic novel, such as Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1993), Ghost World (1997), David Boring (2000) and Patience (2016). Most of Clowes's work first appeared in Eightball, a solo anthology comic book series. Daniel Gillespie Clowes ( / k l aʊ z/ born April 14, 1961) is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter.

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