Next year should be another major year for Clowes: he plans to publish not only his longest graphic novel to date, Patience, and it will also see the release of the film adaptation (based on his own script) of Clowes's graphic album Wilson.Ĭlowes spoke to me on the telephone during the last week of May. The recent publication of The Complete Eightball, a lovingly restored two-volume collection of the first eighteen issues of Daniel Clowes's seminal comic book series, gives readers old and new a chance to reassess the great cartoonist's work, allowing them to trace back the roots of later masterpieces like Ice Haven and The Death-Ray, and to enjoy some of the caustic, experimental, and just plain strange short pieces that Clowes later largely left behind, at least for now (but see below). Features Frightened Control Freaks: An Interview with Daniel Clowes
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