Monday, October 22, 2012

Daniel Clowes Bibliography Updated

After too long, I have updated the Dan Clowes bibliography:
http://core.ecu.edu/ENGL/parillek/dcupdate.htm

If anything is missing,
please let me know at
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Saturday, October 6, 2012

A Salute to Game Show Podiums

Announcing the "Transcontinental Tour" to mark the release of my new (old) book Ticket Stub. 
On October 13 and 14, cartoonist/publisher Rina Ayuyang and I will be at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco.
Then on November 10, we're at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. I should also have two new pages in the next issue of Smoke Signal there.


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Thursday, July 12, 2012

New "Formalist" Close Reading up at The Comics Journal

Grid at TCJ: Construction Manual * John Hankiewicz’s “The Kimball House.”

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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Cover From Another Brother

I inexplicably got asked to do a DVD cover--was it last year?--but after watching the movie I thought, "Why me? My artwork doesn't seem to match the tone of this film at all." But I turned it in,  and inevitably the idea became to divide up my drawings and put them somewhere in the booklet instead. My vanity was hackled, so here it lies in the storage locker:
This version more matched the color scheme of the opening credits. I liked the idea of the father's job being to show his kids a film of when he drugged them.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Coming Soon

Published by Yam Books

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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Daniel Clowes in New York Times

The Times has a cover feature on the cartoonist in the April 1 Arts & Leisure section:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/arts/design/daniel-clowess-retrospective-at-the-oakland-museum.html?hpw

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

I'm sure that you all have been checking out boingboing.net everyday, looking at the Clowes oddities and entering the contest to win a copy of The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist signed by Mr. Clowes. Here's another oddity, an OK Soda "cold vault static cling" from 1994. These were used in the large coolers that hold soda in convenience stores. I drank some OK back in the '90s.

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Monday, March 19, 2012

14 Days of Clowes Oddities; and Win a Free Signed Book

It's happening at danielclowes.com/news and boingboing!

Here are some other Clowes odditities: an Eightball button from 1991, and OK Soda shoe-laces from 1994. The packing on the laces features a redrawn version of a panel from Clowes's Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron; this may be the smallest Clowes 'panel' ever printed.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

New Grid: Are SuperHeroes Really Super Sexy?

My new column will be up at The Comics Journal very soon.

It's on a subject the internet loves: superhero outfits and sexism.

It seemed like time for TCJ to weight in.

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Coming Soon

See here for a preview of The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, which will be released on April 1.

"Created with full access to the cartoonist’s archives, The Art of Daniel Clowes collects for the first time Clowes’s best-known and seldom-seen illustrations, personal photos and memorabilia, behind-the-scenes drawings and sketchbook pages, along with unpublished comics and original art. The 224-page full-color hardcover also features:

an introduction by George Meyer (The Simpsons)
a career-spanning interview by Kristine McKenna (Talk to Her)

and the following essays:

Book designer Chip Kidd on Clowes and design
Art critic Susan Miller on Wilson and portraiture
Writer Ken Parille on Clowes’s post-Y2K graphic novels
Film critic Ray Pride on David Boring and film
Cartoonist Chris Ware on why other cartoonists fear Clowes"

Edited by Alvin Buenaventura
Designed by Jonathan Bennett
Co-Edited by Ken Parille

Published by Abrams ComicArts

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

New Grid

My new column is up at The Comics Journal .
It's kind of a "2011: Year in Comics" review essay.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

New GRID Column at TCJ: Discussion Forum

My new column will be up at The Comics Journal on Thursday.

I make ten observations about Daniel Clowes's The Death-Ray that I hope will kickstart a conversation about the comic.


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Monday, October 3, 2011

B F F

Willoughby, c. 1998-2011.

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Little Bear

Got the news this morning that our precious boy has aggressive and incurable cancer.

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Best. Cat. Ever.

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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Justice League #1 Examined

My sixth GRID column will be up at The Comics Journal on Monday.

It's a look at the new Justice League #1.

Normally I write about comics I like and try to explain what's interesting about them.

This time I take a different approach.

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