Tag Archive | "Daniel Clowes"

The Beeb on Dan Clowes

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

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Vimeo user Seb has uploaded a segment from one of the BBC’s regular cultural and arts commentators Andrew Graham-Dixon (from the Secret of Drawing series), discussing the work of Daniel Clowes:

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Zygote, Mr James and Dan Clowes’ homicidal tendencies

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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Harvey James, who created the very fine A Long Day of Mr James – Teacher for Blank Slate’s Chalk Marks imprint, has a new work coming later this year from Blank Slate Books, this time a full length graphic novel, Zygote. And lucky us, he has just set up a new website for Zygote where [...]

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Dan Clowes covers the New Yorker

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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Drawn & Quarterly tip us off to a new Daniel Clowes cover for the New Yorker due this week – they do use some damned fine comics artists from time to time.

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Jason does Clowes….

Friday, August 19, 2011

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Over at Reprodukt, the famous German publisher, they’re celebrating 20 years of publishing. And as part of the celebrations they’ve asked their artists to do something a little different for a gallery exhibition; draw a page from another Reprodukt artist. First one up to bat is Jason: I chose to do a page from Daniel [...]

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Dan Clowes on the Bat Segundo show

Friday, June 3, 2011

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(a scene from the recently publisher Mister Wonderful by and (c) Dan Clowes, published in UK by Jonathan Cape) Daniel Clowes is the guest on one of my favourite book-related podcasts, the always interesting Bat Segundo show, discussing his life, his work, the difference between the readers responses to Eightball and the New York Times, comparing [...]

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Behold the awesome power of The Death Ray!!!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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Rejoice in the awesome graphic splendour of The Death Ray by the great Dan Clowes, due from the lovely folks at Drawn & Quarterly in the autumn. I love this pic, couldn’t resist sharing it on here. (link via Tom at Comics Reporter, via Hypergeek, art by and (c) Dan Clowes)

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Flying pigs, ice-creams in hell, Dan Clowes has a website….

Saturday, February 26, 2011

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Yes, everyone needs a website. Even those who’ve never really seemed that keen on the whole Internet thing. Hence this: http://danielclowes.com/ And there’s a very good “About” page, very “Clowes-ian”: Like the man says – © Daniel Clowes – although I’m hoping that reproducing the about page is just about okay. Fingers crossed.

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, January 20, 2011

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As a crisp, frosty January Thursday shines across the land here’s Alex Fitch to shed a little glow of winter sunlight with some of his up and coming radio and podcast shows. And oh my, just look who he has as guest tonight! Really, have a look, swoon with excitement, look again to check you [...]

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Mister Wonderful

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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A new collection of Daniel Clowes work coming soon from Jonathan Cape? Oh yes, indeedy! Mister Wonderful: a Love Story, collects the tale first serialised in the New York Times Magazine, plus some forty pages of new material, following Marshall: middle-aged, unemployed and divorced, waiting nervously for a blind date with Natalie, a woman his [...]

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The Spurge talks to Dan Clowes

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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Just before the Christmas holidays we pointed you to the start of a series of Holiday Interviews that Tom Spurgeon was posting up on the fine Comics Reporter. At that point there were already several up already, all long, in-depth, fascinating pieces with a variety of people in the comics industry. Well Tom’s still going [...]

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Mike Sacks talks with Dan Clowes

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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Mike Sacks, a contributor to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, has a book out, 21 Top Humor Writers On Their Craft. Apparently it should have been 25 but for some reason beyond his control the publisher cut it to 21. One of the conversations cut from the book was with the brilliant Daniel Clowes. What sort of [...]

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