
February 1 marks the ten-year anniversary of the
Daniel Clowes Bibliography, a project I began researching in 1999. In the mid-late 90s, David Pautler put a bibliography of Clowes’s work online at wraithspace.com (long since gone), which (if I remember correctly) had around 200-250 items. With David's permission, I took that information as a starting point and began using various search engines, library databases, store for-sale lists, eBay, correspondence, etc. in an effort to identify as many items as I could. Currently, the bibliography has around 1400 items, though I'm sure many others exist.
It's been through a few formats with different sections and subsections;
the format I’ve had for the last few years is, I hope, an arrangement that makes it easy for users to locate an item they're searching for, or to see all of the work Clowes has done in a given category. I have also gathered material from the main sections of bibliography into two lists:
Stories in Eightball, Lloyd Llewellyn, and DC Collections, an alphabetical, cross-referenced list of stories in his two comic series and his books.
Uncollected Stories, a list of stories/strips that have never been collected into a Clowes anthology.
Initially, the site had no
updates section, and a few users requested one; so I have been keeping a record of updates since July 2002. Users occasionally suggest that I provide images of each object, but my goal is simply to track down items, place them into the bibliography’s categories, and annotate them -- when it’s useful to do so. Some sections have more details --
here, for example, I identify all of the contents (with page counts) of each issue of
Eightball -- while other sections are simply a list of items.
A number of people have been helpful along the way, and I thank them
here.
http://www.danielclowesbibliography.com/