Daniel Clowes

Daniel Gillespie Clowes ( born April 14, 1961 in Chicago) is an American comic book artist and writer. Known to a wider public he was by the movie Ghost World, 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 in New York, however, he found no job as an illustrator.

From 1985 to 1989 he published stories and pictures in the magazine Cracked, especially "The Uggly Family. " 1985 wrote and drew his first Clowes Lloyd Llewellyn- story that eventually a comic book series with six volumes was ( from 1986 to 1988, published by Fantagraphics Books).

Published in 1989, Clowes at Fantagraphics the first issue of the comic magazine Eightball, from today until 23 issues have been published and in which all books Clowes ' were first published as serials.

Clowes lives with his wife Heather and his son Charlie in Oakland ( California).

Awards

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

Movies

Clowes has written screenplays for two films based on his comics: Ghost World (2000, starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi ) and Art School Confidential (2006, with John Malkovich and Anjelica Huston ). Director Terry Zwigoff was similar for both films. Currently Clowes working on a screenplay for "The Death Ray", produced by Jack Black's Black and White Productions.

Others

  • The main character in Ghost World 's Enid Coleslaw, an anagram for Daniel Clowes.
  • In the video " I Do not Want to Grow Up" the Ramones is to see Clowes ' art.
  • He illustrated more than 20 album covers, among others, 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 Simpsons nineteenth season.

Works (selection)

Comic Books

  • Lloyd Llewellyn # 1 - # 6 ( 1986-1987) and a special (1988)
  • Eightball # 1 - # 23

Collection expenses

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

Movies

  • 2001: Ghost World
  • 2006: Art School Confidential

Web Links ( German )

  • Literature by and about Daniel Clowes in the catalog that German national library
  • Clowes ' German publisher reprodukt
  • Review the current German edition of David Boring

External links (English)

  • Daniel Clowes Bibliography
  • Daniel Clowes at Fantagraphics
  • Biography
  • Interview with Daniel Clowes on BBC Collective
  • Girls ' world ( Guardian article )
  • Comic Book Awards Almanac
  • Cartoonist
  • Screenwriter
  • Americans
  • Born in 1961
  • Man
Ghost World (film) Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Art School Confidential (film) Happiness (1998 film) Esquire (magazine) Integrated Authority File
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