Daniel Clowes

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Daniel Clowes, 2010

Daniel Gillespie Clowes (born April 14, 1961 in Chicago ) is an American comic artist and screenwriter . He became known to a wider public through the film Ghost World , which is based on one of his comics.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1979, Clowes studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn , New York . After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts , however, he did not find a job as an illustrator in New York .

From 1985 to 1989 he published stories and pictures in Cracked magazine , especially "The Uggly Family". In 1985, Clowes wrote and drew his first Lloyd Llewellyn story, which eventually became a six-volume comic book series (1986–1988, published by Fantagraphics Books ).

In 1989 Clowes published the first issue of the comic magazine Eightball at Fantagraphics , of which 23 issues have appeared to date and in which all of Clowes' books were initially published as sequels.

Clowes lives in Oakland, California with his wife Erika and son Charlie .

Awards

In addition to multiple nominations for the Harvey Awards , he won this award in 2005 in the categories of Best Writer and Best Single Issue or Story . He is also the recipient of several Eisner Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award for the best adapted screenplay ( Ghost World ).

Movies

Clowes has written scripts for two films based on his comics: Ghost World (2000, with Thora Birch , Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi ) and Art School Confidential (2006, with John Malkovich and Anjelica Huston ). Both films were directed by Terry Zwigoff . Clowes is currently working on a script for The Death Ray, produced by Jack Black's Black and White Productions .

Others

  • The main character in Ghost World is Enid Coleslaw , an anagram for Daniel Clowes.
  • Clowe's art can be seen in the Ramones video "I Don't Want to Grow Up" .
  • He illustrated more than 20 album covers , including the album The Smoke of Hell the Supersuckers .
  • The poster for the film Happiness by Todd Solondz comes from Clowes.
  • Clowes appears (as himself) in the seventh episode of the nineteenth season of the Simpsons .

Works (selection)

comics

  • Lloyd Llewellyn # 1- # 6 (1986–1987) and a special (1988)
  • Eightball # 1- # 23
  • Wilson (Drawn and Quarterly, 2010), German-language edition under the same title. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8218-6128-9 .
  • Solitaire . Translation Jan Dinter. Reprodukt, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95640-119-0 .

Collective editions

  • Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Eightball # 1- # 10, German: Like a velvet glove in iron shackles )
  • Pussey! (Eightball # 1, # 3, # 4, # 6, # 8, # 9, # 12, # 14)
  • Orgy Bound
  • Lout Rampage
  • Ghost World (Eightball # 11- # 18, also as a German edition under the same title)
  • Caricature Compilation of various eightball short stories and a story published in Esquire ("Green Eyeliner", German: caricature )
  • David Boring (Eightball # 19- # 21, in April 2007 as a German edition under the same title)
  • Twentieth Century Eightball Compilation of various eightball stories

Movies

Exhibitions

Weblinks (German)

Weblinks (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original dated August 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , English, accessed September 19, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wexarts.org
  2. ^ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , English, accessed September 19, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.mcachicago.org
  3. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , in English, accessed on September 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ Link defective: Message about the exhibition ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 19 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.fumetto.ch
personal data
SURNAME Clowes, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clowes, Daniel Gillespie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book artist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago