Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes is part of the second generation of American underground comix artists. Clowes was born in Chicago, and attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He made his debut in the first issue of Psycho Comics in 1981, and throughout the decade, he has contributed to Look Mom Presents, Love & Rockets, Anything Goes, Doomsdag Squad, Twist, Judo Joe, Prime Cuts, Amazing Heroes, Village Voice, Weirdo, Young Lust and National Lampoon. Fantagraphics has published most of the short stories that were serialized in 'Eigthball' in book collections like 'Orgy Bound' (1996), 'Caricature' (1998), 'Twentieth Century Eightball' (2002). The Dan Pussey stories were collected in the comics novella 'Pussey!', a funny who's-who-in-U.S.-comix, featuring Art Spiegelman and Harvey Kurtzman. A recurring theme in Clowes work is the feeling of isolation in a world replete with erotic stimuli and consumer goods that haunts his main characters. The artist's mastery of bringing comic characters to life is such that his best-seller 'Ghost World' features two completely convincing teenage girls - no small feat for a male artist in his forties. In 2001, Clowes participated in MGM's cinema adaptation of this story about growing up by Terry Zwigoff. In 2006, 'Art School Confidential' was also adapted to film.