Material about DC
This section includes material about DC, such as features,
reviews, interviews, online interviews, and select mentions.
Nearly all the interviews and features use illustrations from his
work. Most features include excerpts from
interviews done
specifically for that article. For a key to
abbreviations, go here.
Books on DC:
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (April
2012): 224 page full-color art book from Abrams
with essays and interview
The Daniel Clowes Reader:
Forthcoming 2012
Print Interviews:
The
first DC interview I know of takes place in July 1988; it appears in
Roctober 26 (Fall-Winter/99)
If a URL below is not highlighted or underlined, this indicates
that the link no longer contain the material
1989-1993
Neo: The Iowa Entertainer 19 (c.4/89)
Blab! 4 (Summer 89)
Quidnunc 1 (Winter 1989): interview takes place before the release of Eightball 1
New City (8/2-8/15/90): cover has an image of DC not by him, though the background figures are from LL and E
Damp 6 (Winter 91)
Reflex 20 (11/91): includes unpublished sketchbook illustrations and The Sense Assaulter
Boing Boing 6 (1991)
Comikaze 3 (1991)
The Comics Journal 149 (3/92): Comic Art in the 90s panel participant
Dial M For Motherfcker 3 (3/92): zine apparently contains DC interview
The Comics Journal 154 (11/92): extended interview with numerous unpublished illustrations and sketchbook illustrations
Dirt 2 (1992)
Lowbrow 1 (1992): lengthy interview with photos and numerous unpublished sketchbook pages
Pitch (1992): Pitch was a zine produced by University of Chicago students - (see online interviews below)
Fiz 5 (March-April/93)
Net Magazine 3 (7/93): with Peter Bagge
The Village Noize 15 (1993)
Your Flesh 27 (1993): has a DC cover - lengthy interview
Panty Line Fever 4 (Winter 1993): zine
1994-1999
Hypno Vol. 3, 5/6 (5/94)
Circle Press 2 (Fall 1994): zine with short interview and small illustration in sketchbook style
Generic Soda Pop 1 (1994): zine
Hooked on Comix (1994): video interviews of cartoonists
No Idea 11 (1994)
The Nose 21 (1994)
Bunnyhop 5 (2/95)
Ruta 66 105 (4/95): feature and separate interview - DC cover, a color version of illustration from p.2 Blab! 4
Full Frontal Nudity 3 (6/95): interview with long introduction - includes a drawing by DC of the interviewer, Kyle Rimkus
Spin (2/96): short feature on P!
The Comics Journal 188 (8/96)
Fuzzy Heads Are Better 4 (c.1996): short interview - zine
Galago Comics 47 (2/97): interview in Swedish - issues also has a translation of Caricature (E15)
Don't Touch Me 6 (Spring 97): lengthy interview - zine
Fiction 2 (Summer 97) - zine
Dangerous Drawings (1997): collection of interviews with comic and graphic artists
San Francisco Bay Guardian (1/21/98)
Creepy Mike's Omnibus of Fun 6 (4/98): short interview - zine
Roctober 26 (Fall-Winter/99): the interview took place in July, 1988
Double Down 4 (1999): part of a DC drawing (p.2 Blab! 4) on the cover, along with non-DC art
Strapazine 57 (12/99): includes a German translation of Gynecology (E17)
2000-2004
Sequential Vol.1, 5 (2/00)
Index (June-July/00)
After Hours 12 (Oct-Nov/00): a short interview in Japanese
Mean Magazine (Nov-Dec/00): with Chris Ware
Shout (12/00)
Square 1 (c. late 2000): short interview
Cinemad 4 (2000): an interview about the film version of Ghost World
Jo Mastercard Tu Jane (2000): Spanish zine on DC
The Comics Journal 233 (5/01): full-length interview, DC cover - excerpt
Bitch-Feminist Response to Popular Culture 14 (6/01): focuses on Ghost World and film
Cut 121 (8/01): interview in Japanese - includes oversize illustration from cover of the Japanese edition of Ghost World
Urbanview (8/01): DC cover
Beikoku Ongaku 19 (11/01): in Japanese and English
Robot Power 20.5 (c. late 2000/early 2001)
Blur 5 (9/01): cover is a photo of the Little Enid doll
Ghost World movie book (2001): Cine Carnet 003 - interview in Japanese
Scram 15 (2/02)
Total Movie and Entertainment (Mar-Apr/02): one page interview
Pulp 34 (Summer 2002): European magazine
International Designers Network Vol.9 No.3 (2002): short interview
PLG 37 (Winter 2002/03): French annual journal - DC is the feature; includes interview in English/French, color cover gallery, and reduced version of this bibliography
The Comics Journal 250 (2/03): DC discusses in detail how he creates his comics
Comics as Art (3/03): the program for this exhibition has a short interview
Original Comic Art (7/03): catalog for this show held by the Buenaventura Press includes a short interview
Jack Kirby Collector 39 (Fall 2003): DC and other comic professionals respond to 'What is Your Favorite Kirby Cover?' - includes small DC sketch
2005-Present
Metro (6/7/05): Metro is a free weekly paper in NYC
Punk Planet 69 (Sept-Oct/05)
Nude Magazine 7 (Winter 2005): Nude is a UK culture magazine
Tokion 50 (10/05)
Swingset 7 (late 2005)
Filter (Winter 2006)
Mass Appeal 38 (2/06)
Mean Magazine Vol. 2.7 (March-April 2006): interview with DC and Terry Zwigoff on Art School Confidential
Anthem Magazine 21 (Mar/Apr 2006): 1 page interview
Chronic'Art (6/06): in French - http://www.chronicart.com/print/print26.htm
In the Studio (10/06): includes an expanded version of the DC feature from Comic Art 1, with new color DC self-portrait
David Boring e Altre Storie (2006): interview with DC in Italian
Onion AV Club (San Francisco) (11/29/07)
Found 6 (2008): reprints material found by DC and includes an interview about the items
The Believer (5/10)
Elephant 10 (Spring 2012)
Juxtapoz (8/2012)
Daniel Clowes: Conversations (July 2010): collects 14 interviews, plus a new interview I conducted.
Online Interviews:
some
of these appeared in print.
If a URL below is not highlighted or underlined, this indicates
that the link no longer contain the material.
1992-2000
Pitch (1992): http://www.tight-science.com/old/danclowes.html
Cracked Machine (c. 96/97): www.webinfo.co.uk/crackedmachine/danclowes.htm
Amazon.com (9/13/98?): www.amazon.com/dan-clowes-interview
Dolomite (9/24/98):
Addicted to Noise (10/98): www.addict.com/html/hifi/Features/Clowes,_Dan/981006/
The Onion AV club (1998): www.theavclub.com/avclub3306/avfeature3306.html
Jade (French journal) (1/99): http://www.pastis.org/jade/cgi-bin/reframe.pl?http://www.pastis.org/jade/avril/clowes.htm
Hermenaut (5/99): www.hermenaut.com
More Goat Than Goose (8/99): www.moregoatthangoose.com/interviews/clowes.htm
indy Magazine (1999): http://63.236.77.227/interviews/dclowes.shtml
The Connection (radio interview 9/28/00): www.theconnection.org
Cinemad 4 (2000): http://www.insound.com/cinema/articles/index.cfm?id=93
2001-2004
Reglar Wiglar (c.early 2001): http://home.earthlink.net/~wiglar/clowes.html
Tablet 16 (5/01): http://www.tabletnewspaper.com/vol2iss_16/features/danclowes1.htm
The Stranger (7/19/01): http://www.thestranger.com/2001-07-19/film3.html
Filmthreat (7/30/01): http://www.filmthreat.com/Interviews.asp?File=InterviewsOne.inc&Id=186
Fresh Air (radio interview 9/6/01): http://freshair.npr.org/
NewCity (8/23/01): http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/film-2001-08-23-1357.html
Post- (10/19/01): http://www.browndailyherald.com/post/stories.asp?ID=133
SlushFactory.com (1/25/02): http://www.slushfactory.com/features/articles/012502-clowes.php
YouthRadio.com (2/9/02): http://www.youthradio.com/books/020214_danclowes.shtml
Gadfly.org (2/18/02):
TheIndependentReviewsSite.org (4/02): http://www.theindependentreviewssite.org/
Writers Guild of America (2002): http://www.wga.org/pr/awards/2002/clowes-zwigoff.html
Boldtype (9/02): http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0902/clowes/
DesignerMagazine.com (late 2002): http://designermagazine.tripod.com/DanielClowesINT1.html
Chick Factor 15 (2002): 'listening room' interview with DC and others - http://www.chickfactor.com/back/cf15_literaryjukebox.shtml
Paper Sky (2003): http://www.paper-sky.com/new/english/interviews.html
ReadersVoice.com (12/03): http://www.readersvoice.com/showint.php?FS=14&SY=2003&SID=106&SM=December
2005-2006
Metro Santa Cruz (6/15/05): interview about IH - http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/06.15.05/clowes-0524.html
WNYC (7/29/05): radio interview available at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/07292005
KPFA (8/1/05): radio interview available at http://kpfa.org/archives/archives.php?id=6#9394
ReadyMade 18 (Aug-Sept/05): interview and self-portrait http://readymademag.com/feature_18_clowes.php
BBC Collective (8/05): image gallery and interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A4500820
Suicidegirls.com (9/11/05): http://suicidegirls.com/words/Daniel+Clowes/
Los Angeles City Beat (2/16/06): interview http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3323&IssueNum=141
San Francisco Examiner (3/3/06): interview - http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2006/03/04/entertainment/20060304_en03_clowes.txt
filmforce.com (4/4/06): interview - http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/700/700004p1.html
LA Weekly (4/26/06): ASC feature/interview with DC and Zwigoff - http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/art-school-rejects/13304/
Salon (4/26/06): ASC feature/interview with DC and Zwigoff - http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/04/27/btm/index2.html
Newsarama.com (4/27/06): interview - http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68629
Wired (5/1/06): interview - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70731-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
Village Voice (5/2/06): http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0618,lim,73091,20.html
Chud.com (5/4/06): interview - http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=6581
Hero Spy (5/5/06): http://www.herospy.com/?p=870
Filmshi (5/8/06): interview with DC - http://filmshi.com/db/content/view/104/60/
RUSirius Radio (5/10/06): interview with Zwigoff then DC - http://www.rusiriusradio.com/2006/05/10/art-school-confidential/
Greencine.com (5/12/06): interview - http://www.greencine.com/article?action=view&articleID=295&pageID=538
Drinks With Tony (5/13/06): http://www.drinkswithtony.com/danclowes.html
Mr. Skin (7/06): interview http://www.mrskin.com/Skinterviews/137/index.htm
PBS (7/06): http://www.pbs.org/pov/tintinandi/sfartists_clowes.php
Metro Active (10/11/06): DC interview http://www.metroactive.com/metro/10.11.06/daniel-clowes-0641.html
2005-2011
New York Times Blog (8/24/07): DC speaks on upcoming projects
HeraldNet (8/20/08): http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080829/ENT/708299884
Du9 (3/09): http://du9.org/Daniel-Clowes,1109
The New Yorker Blog (5/4/09): 'sneak peek' of forthcoming DC book
McSweeneys (2009): DC interview at http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sacks/clowes.html - I'm not sure when this was conducted.
*Interviews conducted in conjunction with book tour for Wilson:
*For links to 28 interviews and features that date from 4/2010 - 7/2010, see this post at the Blog Flume.
Stussy (3/2011)
Comic Book Resources (4/13/11)
The Comics Journal (4/13/11)
Wurzeltod (4/15/11)
Wall Street Journal (5/4/11)Maisonneuve (9/16/11): http://maisonneuve.org/pressroom/article/2011/sep/16/web-exclusive-interview-daniel-clowes/
Flavor Wire (9/28/11): http://flavorwire.com/214131/dan-clowes-talks-about-nerdy-superheros-911-and-spite-wars
io9 (10/3/11): http://io9.com/5846141/ghost-worlds-daniel-clowes-tells-us-about-the-death+ray-his-chain+smoking-teenage-superhero
CBR (10/6/11): http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=34756
Metro Boston (10/10/11): http://www.metro.us/boston/entertainment/article/993152--daniel-clowes-on-his-latest-graphic-novel-the-death-ray
Chicago Tribune (10/10/11): http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-10/entertainment/ct-ent-1011-daniel-clowes-seth-20111010_1_daniel-clowes-ghost-world-graphic-novels
Oak Park Patch (10/11/11): http://oakpark.patch.com/articles/the-patch-interview-ghost-world-cartoonist-daniel-clowes
Details (10/12/11): http://www.details.com/blogs/daily-details/2011/10/qa-daniel-clowes.html
New City (10/12/11): http://lit.newcity.com/2011/10/12/out-of-this-world-dan-clowes-and-seth-find-common-ground-in-uncommon-places/
Vancouver Sun (10/15/11): http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Clowes+gives+middle+graphic+edge+with+Death/5555565/story.html
Metro NY (10/18/11): http://www.metro.us/newyork/entertainment/article/993152--daniel-clowes-on-his-latest-graphic-novel-the-death-ray
WNYC (10/18/11): http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/oct/18/
AV Club (10/19/11): http://www.avclub.com/articles/dan-clowes,63645/
PBS (10/20/11): http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2011/10/daniel-clowes.html
Now Toronto (10/23/11): http://www.nowtoronto.com/guides/ifoa/2011/story.cfm?content=183307
NY Magazine (10/25/11): http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/10/dan_clowes_on_the_death_ray_re.html
Miami New Times (10/26/11): http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2011/10/dan_clowes_creator_of_ghost_wo.php
Propeller (11/1/11): http://www.propellermag.com/Fall2011/Clowesfall11.html
Rookie (12/28/11): http://rookiemag.com/2011/12/an-interview-with-dan-clowes/
Bomb (12/29/11): http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6348
2012-Present
LA Times (4/4/12): http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/04/04/daniel-clowes-brings-25-years-of-faces-fetishes-to-meltdown/#/0
Publishers Weekly (4/10/12): http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/51449-daniel-clowes-on-his-new-exhibition-and-monograph-and-lee-marvin.html
The Atlantic (4/19/12): (http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/dan-clowes-author-of-ghost-world-has-one-rule-for-writing-dialogue/256097/
San Francisco Bay Guardian (5/7/12): http://www.sfbg.com/2012/05/02/cartoonist-confidential
NPR Morning Edition (5/6/12): http://www.npr.org/2012/05/07/151859210/the-serious-comic-art-of-daniel-clowes
Artforum (5/09/12): http://artforum.com/words/id=30960
WBEZ (5/016/12): http://www.wbez.org/blogs/alison-cuddy/2012-05/cartoonist-daniel-clowes-returns-chicago-99182
KQED (5/30/12): http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201205301000
A.V. Club (5/30/12): http://www.avclub.com/articles/daniel-clowes,75653/
Guardian UK (7/20/12): http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jul/20/daniel-clowes-comic-book-author?INTCMP=SRCH
[See http://danielclowes.blogspot.com/2012/07/bizarro-clowess-qa-with-guardian.html]
Boom (Summer 2012): http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2012/08/from-ghost-world-to-your-world/
Vice (8/2012): http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/checking-in-with-clowes
Baltimore City Paper (9/11/12): http://citypaper.com/arts/books/daniel-clowes-1.1372197
Rolling Stone (9/26/12): http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/q-a-comix-stars-daniel-clowes-chris-ware-and-gilbert-and-jaime-hernandez-20120926
New York Times Sunday Magazine (9/27/12): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/magazine/great-moments-in-inspiration.html?_r=2&
[Many other interviews can be found on YouTube]
Online Features: some of these appeared in print.
These feature typically include quotations from DC.
1997-2001
Metro (6/5/97): http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/06.05.97/comics-9723.html
NewTimesLA (11/19/98):
Metro (12/7/98): http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sfmetro/12.07.98/clowes-9847.html
NY Press (1999): http://www.geocities.com/saltyjenny/clowes.html
Austin Chronicle (9/8/00): http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-09-08/books_feature3.html
Varsity Review (10/16/00): http://www.varsity.utoronto.ca/archives/121/oct16/review/clowes.html
Salon (12/5/00): www.salon.com/people/bc/2000/12/05/clowes/print.html
Seattle Times (5/10/01): http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=clowes100&date=20010510
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (5/11/01): http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/visualart/22467_clowes.shtml
La Weekly (7/20/01): http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/35/features-mckenna.php - issue has 2 DC covers
SanFran.com (7/01): http://www.sanfran.com/archives/July_2001/SF0107culture.htm
SpinnerRack.com (7/01):
San Francisco Chronicle (8/8/01): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/08/DD204100.DTL
Metro (8/16/01): http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.16.01/cover/clowes-0133.html
National Post (8/01): search nationalpost.com for 3 stories about DC - they don't appear to have specific URLs
Lawrence Journal-World (8/30/01):
The Guardian (11/3/01): http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,586658,00.html
2002-2005
East Bay Express (3/27/02): http://www.eastbayexpress.com/issues/2002-03-27/presshere.html/1/index.html
Ecrit et Dessine.org (n.d.): http://www.ecritetdessine.org/affiche.php?nom=clowes
Salon.com (11/21/02): http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/11/21/comics/index.html
Chick Factor 15 (2002): 'listening room' interview with DC and others - http://www.chickfactor.com/back/cf15_literaryjukebox.shtml
US News & World Report (3/21/05): feature on Adrian Tomine includes quotations from DC
Rocky Mountain News (4/1/05): feature on graphic novels includes quotations from DC
Chicago Tribune (5/29/05): article on 'Backyard Resistance' includes quotations from DC
Brookline Tab (6/16/05): http://www2.townonline.com/brookline/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=268462
The Guardian (7/27/05): http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,6000,1536970,00.html
Flak Magazine (8/10/05): http://flakmag.com/features/clowes.html
San Francisco Bay Guardian (10/26-11/1/05): http://www.sfbg.com/40/04/lit_comic.html - comics feature includes quotations from DC
The Secret of Drawing (2005): 4 part BBC program - DC's segment http://audium.blogspot.com/2006/05/dan-clowes-interview-video-art-school.html
2006-2011
New York Times (2/10/06): review of the exhibition Speak: Nine Cartoonists discuses Clowes and reprints a page from E22
Publishers Weekly (2/21/06): http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6308907.html
San Francisco Bay Guardian (5/2/06): http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=474
ComingSoon.net (5/4/06): http://comingsoon.net/news/indietopnews.php?id=14374
BackStage.com (5/4/06): http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/features/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002462040
New York Times (5/7/06): short feature on DC and a favorite toy - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/fashion/sundaystyles/07POSS.html
Chicago Tribune (5/7/06): ASC http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-0605060215may07,0,3121191.story?coll=mmx-movies_heds
Bay Area Reporter (5/11/06): http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=165
InsideBayArea.com (5/12/06): http://www.insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_3814382
San Diego Tribune (7/16/06): feature - http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20060716-9999-lz1a16clowes.html
*For links to 28 interviews and features that date from 4/2010 - 7/2010, see this post at the Blog Flume.SF Weekly (9/30/11): http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/09/daniel_clowes_adrian_tomine.php
The Daily Californian (10/5/11): http://www.dailycal.org/2011/10/05/with-great-force/
Montréal Gazette (10/14/11): http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Daniel+Clowes+depicts+anomie+with+humour/5551871/story.html
The Varsity (10/17/11): http://thevarsity.ca/articles/48505
Now Toronto (10/20/11): http://www.nowtoronto.com/guides/ifoa/2011/story.cfm?content=183274
The Torontoist (10/24/11): http://torontoist.com/2011/10/ifoa-2011-daniel-clowes-and-the-merits-of-quietude/
The Star (11/11/1): http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1085803
2012-Present
Diablo Magazine (4/2012): http://www.diablomag.com/Diablo-Magazine/April-2012/Meet-Daniel-Clowes/
The New York Times (4/1/12): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/arts/design/daniel-clowess-retrospective-at-the-oakland-museum.html?_r=0
MediaBistro (4/4/12): http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/clowes-up-oakland-museum-readies-daniel-clowes-retrospective_b20368
San Francisco Chronicle (4/21/12): http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Daniel-Clowes-cartoons-drip-with-vengeful-satire-3498750.php
Houston Chronicle (5/10/12): http://www.chron.com/default/article/Daniel-Clowes-shows-outsider-artists-can-have-3550034.php
Huck Magazine (4/22/13): DC quoted in this feature on D and Q
Features and Other
Printed Material: (See
Online Features above)
These feature often include quotations from DC.
1991-1996
Speakeasy 120 (6/91): UK comics magazine
Entertainment Weekly (6/26-7/9/92 double issue): the cover story - 'What is Cool'- has a short feature on DC, Eightball, and LR
Spin (9/93): short feature on DC, Peter Bagge, and the Hateball tour - includes a DC portrait of Peter Bagge
The Comics Journal 162 (10/93): brief bio. with sketch
Wizard 29 (1/94): feature on Eightball
Magnet 6 (Feb-Mar/94)
Comic Culture vol. 2, 4 (4/95)
Spunkzine 4 (Winter 95)
Cake vol. II 31 (1995): feature on DC and Peter Bagge
Pulse 147 (4/96): DC and other cartoonists talk about the music they listen to while working
World Art (4/96)
Cartoonist and Comic Artist Magazine 9 (1996): feature on DC - sidebar on his use of zipatone
Lo-Fi 3 (1996)
1997-2001
Bizarre Magazine 4 (Oct-Nov/97)
The Imp 1 (1997): entire issue devoted to DC
San Francisco Bay Guardian (1/21/98): cover feature
Raygun (4/98): one page feature
Wizard 82 (6/98): short feature
Print (July-Aug/98)
Zozolala 102 (10-11/98): feature in Dutch - cover uses title page from Immortal, Invisible (E16)
The Face (11/98): UK magazine with one page article on GW
Beaux Arts Magazine 196 (9/00): French
Nylon (9/02): 2 page feature that reprints 3 pages from DB (p.18, 92, 10 [10 is at full size])
Jane (11/00): very short feature
Surface 27 (2000)
The Comics Journal 230 (2/01): short feature on the Clowes/Ware Fall 2000 book tour
Juxtapoz 31 (Mar-Apr/01): contains the most examples of DC's work in any feature or interview I have seen
Request Magazine (Mar-Apr/01): short feature
Resonance 29 (4/01): issue also includes an ad for GW
The Comics Journal 233 (5/01): the Spot On column discusses unused Clowes cover for DC Comics's Bizarro World - see here
The New Yorker (7/30/01): includes a 1/2 page strip
2002-Present
Current Biography (1/02)
Studio Voice 313 (1/02): Japan
VPRO Gids 4 (1/24-2/01): a Dutch magazine similar to America's 'TV Guide'
Artpapers (Jan-Feb/02): feature on DC and other comic book artists
Flaunt (5/02): feature on DC and other comic book artists
Globe and Mail (6/1/02)
Bizarre Magazine 61 (8/02): feature on DC and Fantagraphics
Comic Art 1 (11/02): feature on DC with previously unpublished art
Beaux Arts Magazine (1/03): 2 page feature in French
New York Times Magazine (7/11/04): comics feature discusses DC's work; reproduces a GW page, w/photo of DC drawing a self-portrait
Comic Art 7 (Winter 2005): a lengthy analytical essay titled 'A Re-Reader's Guide to David Boring'
Resonance 47 (10/05)
New York Times (4/30/06): article on art school critiques has quotations from DC - also has a large color ad for ASC
LA Times (4/29/07): DC talks briefly on Frankenstein cover - http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-bkw-rayner29apr29,0,7199951.story?coll=la-home-right
Leader Post (11/20/07): DC discusses his appearances on The Simpsons
Slanted and Enchanted (2009): includes quotations from an interview conducted with DC on 6.9.08
Select Reviews:
The following list makes no attempt at
completeness; it is by far the most incomplete section of the
bibliography and will likely remain that way.
100s of reviews are not listed here. Numerous reviews can be found by searching the web,
and many others are quoted on the back of DC's collections.
Some
short reviews are listed in Select Mentions above. NOTE:
I stopped adding to this section in 2006.
Lloyd Llewellyn
The Comics Journal 119 (1/88)
#$@&!: The
Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection:
Village Voice Literary Supplement: (10/90)
Eightball:
The Comics Journal 148 (2/92)
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron:
Publishers Weekly (4/12/93) v240 n15 p59
Publishers Weekly (10/11/93) p54
Booklist (5/1/93) v89 n17 p1562
Entertainment Weekly (5/21/93)
Lout Rampage!:
Amazing Heroes 200 (4/92)
Booklist (3/1/92) v88 n13 p1190
Pussey!:
The Comics Journal 180 (10/95)
Ghost World:
The Comics Journal 186 (4/96)
Booklist (9/1/97) v94 n1 p47
Publishers Weekly (10/20/97) v244 n43 p14
Newsweek (4/27/98) v131 n17 p70
Book World (7/26/98) v28 p1
School Library Journal (2/99) v45 i2 p146
Liberation (1/28/99)
The New York Review of Books (8/14/03): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16515
Modern Cartoonist (see E18):
The Comics Journal Online: www.tcj.com/2_archives/r_Mo2On.html [appears in The Comics Journal
169 (6/97)]
The Comics Journal 264 (11-12/04)
Caricature:
Library Journal (3/15/99) v124 i5 p74(1)
The Comics Journal 211 (4/99)
Eightball 19-21 (3-part David Boring story):
Time (4/24/00)
Entertainment Weekly (6/2/00)
David Boring:
Slate (8/28+29/00): search slate.com
Village Voice Literary Supplement (9/00): www.villagevoice.com/vls/169/gehr.shtml
Publishers Weekly (9/4/00) v247 i36 p86
San Francisco Bay Guardian Literary Supplement (10/00)
The Stranger (11/2/00)
Chicago Tribune (11/12/00)
New York Times Book Review (11/26/00)
Washington Post Book World (12/17/00)
Boston Globe (1/7/01)
Art on Paper (July-Aug/01)
The Guardian (11/16/02): http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/artsandentertainment/0,6121,840831,00.html
Bookmunch (12/02): http://www.bookmunch.co.uk/view.php?id=678
Eightball 22 (Ice Haven):
Time.com (1/6/02): http://www.time.com/time/columnist/printout/0,8816,191033,00.html
The Comics Journal 242 (4/02)
Portland Mercury (3/7/02): http://www.portlandmercury.com/2002-03-07/art.html
Giant Robot 24 (Spring 2002): very short review of E 22; mention
of DC cover for Expo 2001
Eightball 23 (The Death-Ray):
Time Magazine (7/19/04): recommends 23 in an article titled If You Read
Only 10 Trashy Novels This Summer
The Village Voice
(7/27/04): http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0430/ito.php
The Onion AV Club (7/28/04):
http://www.theonionavclub.com/words/index.php?issue=4030#review3
Time.com (8/13/04):
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,681633,00.html
Giant Robot 34
(9/04): very short review of E23
The Guardian (9/5/04):
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/artsandentertainment/0,6121,1297447,00.html
IndyMagazine.com (Summer 2004):
http://www.indyworld.com/indy/summer_2004/review_eightball/index.html
The Comics Journal 266
(2/05): review in Best Comics of 2004 section
Ice Haven:
Jane (Summer 2005): very short review
Giant (June-July/05): short review
The Village Voice (6/7/05):
http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0523,beach1,64719,10.html
Philadelphia Inquirer (6/14/05):
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/performing_arts/11887451.htm
Metro Santa Cruz (6/15/05): interview about IH -
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/06.15.05/clowes-0524.html
Brookline Tab (6/16/05):
http://www2.townonline.com/brookline/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=268462
Nashville City Paper (6/24/05):
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section=12&screen=news&news_id=42405
Entertainment Weekly (6/25/05):
http://tinyurl.com/8x6ca
Metro News (6/27/5):
http://www.metronews.ca/books_review.asp?id=9209
New York Newsday (7/1/5):
http://www.nynewsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-bktalk4324738jul03,0,5182128.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-books
The Guardian (7/17/05):
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1529933,00.html
Philadelphia Center Weekly Press (7/20/05):
http://www.philly1.com/story4072005.html
Times (7/23/05):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1702898,00.html
Baltimore Sun (7/25/05):
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/booksmags/ocb-arts-icehaven-s,1,7024298.story?coll=bal-artslife-books
Hartford Advocate (9/22/05):
http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/Arts/content?oid=oid:126726
Boston Review (Jan-Feb/06):
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR31.1/parille.html
Full-Length Analytical
Essays on DC:
The
best discussion of DC's work as a whole is Dan Raeburn's The
Imp 1 (1997); the most detailed look at a
single DC story is 'A Re-Reader's Guide to David Boring' in Comic Art 7 (Winter 2005).
Select Mentions and
Miscellany:
These are mentions of DC, short reviews/pieces on
DC, dictionary/encyclopedia
entries on DC, items inspired by DC's work, etc . . .
As of 2004 I have sopped adding to this section. You can find
these kinds of mentions by searching the web, and google books, etc . . .
1986-1993
Amazing Heroes Preview Special 3 (Summer 1986): mentions DC's plans for LL 4-6
The Comics Journal 119 (1/88) - discusses works of DC and other new cartoonists
Print (Nov-Dec/88): p.107, 109 reprints title page from Maiden Japan (LL5)
Cracked 222 (9/86): letters page
Cracked 246 (8/89): letters page
Altculture at plastic.com:
Amazing Heroes Preview Special 10 (2/90): mentions DC's plans for E 3+4
Village Voice Literary Supplement 89 (10/90): discusses DC, Peter Bagge, Chester Brown
Amazing Heroes 189 (3/91): Young Dan Clowes - a parody by Carol Sobocinski
The Comics Journal 141 (4/91): a letter on DC
The Comics Journal 154 (11/92): information on mainstream publications' interest in DC and other alternative artists
The Comics Journal 155 (10/93): Terry Laban spoof of DC and Peter Bagge
The Comics Journal 157 (3/93): DC speaks about Harvey Kurtzman
The Comics Journal 158 (4/93): info on book tours/signings of DC and other artists
The Comics Journal 161 (8/93): letter on E
The Comics Journal 162 (10/93): an entry about DC in an article on autobiographical cartoonists
Adult Comics, An Introduction (1993): p.98
1994-1999
The Comics Journal 168 (4/94): on DC exhibition Clowestrophobia at Grober Unfug, a Berlin store and gallery
The Comics Journal 168 (4/94): mention in a letter
Understanding Comics (1994): p.4, 52, 56
Kitchen Sink Press, The First 25 Years (1994): p.89, 93, 113
The Comics Journal 168 (5/95): a letter about DC
Overstreet Fan 17 (11/96): short review of E17
The Art of the Comic Book (1996): p.254
Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels (1996): p.128, 196, 200, 201
Comics, vom Massenblatt ins multimediale Abenteuer (1996): p.172
National Society of Cartoonists 50th Anniversary Album (1996): short bio. with self-portrait
The Comics Journal 193 (): on DC, Ghost World film, and UK signing tour
The Comics Journal 205 (6/98): short piece on DC's Green Eyeliner, which was appearing in Esquire fiction issue
Comics Between the Panels (1998): p.48, 88-89, 161
The Comics Journal 210 (2/99): article on 100 English language comics of the century - Ghost World is 42
The Comics Journal 213 (6/99): Clowes art in Swipe File feature
The Comics Journal 218 (12/99): DC on the fate of the Ghost World film
Hanging Like Hex 11 (Winter 99): interview with Fireside has images from DC art for their CD - briefly discuss DC's art
2000-2005
San Fransisco Bay Guardian (10/00)
After Hours 12 (11/00): Japanese magazine
Bachelor No. 2 (2000): CD by Aimee Mann includes a song Ghost World, inspired by DC's comic - Mann talks about the song in Performing Songwriter (6/05)
Below Critical Radar (2000): p.24 (paragraph on Eightball), p.96 (photo of first Ghost World film promotional postcard)
Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de Héros et Auteurs de BD (2000): p.786
Reinventing Comics (2000): p.9, 17, 30, 112
The 101 Best Graphic Novels (6/01): p.25, Ghost World
Gear (12/01-1/02): DC is #92 on the magazine's hot 100 list - a short paragraph
Eightballs Comics (c.2001): a very small 6 page pornographic mini comic by "Ophelia Cummins" starring GW characters and DC
Sound Voice (1/02): Japan
The Age (3/20/02): UK magazine
Men's Health (4/02): short review of TCE
Apple Commercial (filmed c.2002, never aired): no longer online
Scorched Art: The Incendiary Aesthetic of Flame Rite Zippos (3/03): p.70 has photos of two lighters with DC illustrations
Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting (2003): p.31 reproduces/discusses DC's 2001 poster for NYC's Sunshine Theatre
The Rise of the Graphic Novel (2003): p.56-7 discuss GW
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book (2003): p.228 and 229 mention DC's satire of Lee in Pussey!
Tales to Demolish 2 (2003): story by Eric Haven 'I Killed Dan Clowes'
Res Magazine Vol. 1 No. 7 (1-2/04): article on comics and narrative briefly discusses E 22
Juxtapoz Magazine 50 (May-June/04): one page article on Enid Hi-Fashion Glamour Doll
Comix: The Underground Revolution (2004): p.45, 52, 244, 249, 251, 253, 255, 259, 270, 271 - reprints numerous DC covers
Bust (Summer 04): photo and brief mention of Enid Hi-Fashion Glamour Doll
The Believer 15 (7/04): Nick Hornby briefly discusses DB: 'the product of a genuinely odd imagination' - reprinted in NH's The Polysyllabic Spree (10/04)
Girlyhead 5 (8/04): short feature on Enid Hi-Fashion Glamour Doll
Comic Book Encyclopedia (11/04): p.92