They confront modern alienation, prosaic lives, and the fraught redemption of love in a way that feels startlingly authentic.ĭaniel Clowes led a lonely childhood on the south side of Chicago. Like his fellow indie cartoonists Adrian Tomine and Chris Ware, Clowes creates works that bear the hallmarks of great literature. From the awkward and lovelorn Mister Wonderful to the delightfully abrasive Enid Coleslaw in Ghost World to the obsessive and nearly self-destructive Jack in Patience, his characters inhabit Clowes's worlds – but defiantly create their own complex subworlds within them. What distinguishes Clowes is not only his simple and somber drawing style but also his eccentric and unforgettable characters. Several books and collections recently emerged that look back on his 20-plus years as a cartoonist, including The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, The Daniel Clowes Reader, and The Complete Eightball, which came out last year. His story "Art School Confidential," which was featured in his award-winning comics series Eightball, became a film starring John Malkovich.Ĭlowes, whose other works include Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, David Boring, Wilson, and Mister Wonderful, has been published by the most prominent comics publishers in America – Pantheon, Drawn & Quarterly, and Fantagraphics.
He co-wrote the screenplay for Ghost World, which starred Scarlett Johansson, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination.
Clowes is one of the few non-mainstream comics artists whose work has been adapted for the big screen.
It's a humble statement coming from one of the most successful and influential indie cartoonists of our time, whose book Patience, out in March from Fantagraphics, is one of the most highly anticipated graphic novels of the year. "It's a strange job to sit in your room and think, 'What do I want to spend the next five years of my life obsessing over?'" That's how Daniel Clowes, cartoonist and the author of Ghost World, describes the life of a comics artist.
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