Uncollected Stories

This section reorganizes information from the bibliography about the publication of DC stories/strips. It includes all of
the stories/strips that have not appeared in a DC comic or collection, as well as those that have appeared in Eightball but
have not been reprinted in English (some have been reprinted in translation; see
here). For additional information on uncollected 
stories, please see
here. None of the DC work in Cracked and Cracked-related titles has ever been reprinted in a DC collection; 
see
here for those stories. Though some of the minicomics have been reprinted, they have never appeared in a DC collection; see here.

Stories/Strips By DC (or that DC co-created) That Have Never Appeared in a DC Comic or Collection:

1979-1985
[Clowes's professional career began in 1985.]

The Galactic Outpost 2 (1/79): Epsilon - art/story by DC and Peter Friedrich
Psycho Comics 1 (2/81): A Pleasantville Tragedy  
Psycho Comics 1 (2/81): Dear Ann Landers
Psycho Comics 1 (2/81): Accidents Will Happen
Look Mom Presents 1 (1981): Introducing Bill Trouble in Danger at It's Best
Psycho Comics 2 (4/82): The Squirt - with Mort Todd
Psycho Comics 2 (4/82): Heartbreak Honeymoon [A]
Psycho Comics 2 (4/82): Buster Learns the Hard Way [A]
Psycho Comics 2 (4/82): Mimi the Model in Mimi Goes Psycho

1986-1989

Anything Goes 3 (3/86): For Losers Only
Honk! 1 (11/86): Look Out! It's the Squirt [A] [W: Mort Todd]
Anything Goes 4 (5/87): The Divisible Man vs The Unholy 3 [inks, letters - under the name Chic Chumley]
Anything Goes 4 (5/87): Girly Girl and Her Pal Chuckie-Boy [colorist only (W/A: Peter Bagge)
Twist 1 (9/87): Freddy Brown the Squirt in Shelter Skelter [A] [W: Mort Todd]
Judo Joe 1 (10/87): Streets of Terror [lettering only, under the name Chic Chumley]
Strike! 6 (2/88): The Rattler in The Crime Wizards - DC pencils, inks, and letters [W: Chuck Dixon] - under the name Johnny Firebaugh
Prime Cuts 7 (3/88): I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
No Sex 16 (3/89) (art dated 7/79): That's the Way it Goes

1990-2005

Planet (1/92): Zerrit - 3 panel strip drawn by DC and written by Koo in a Chicago newspaper

Doofus 1 (4/92): The Dude - story by DC and Rick Altergott, art by Altergott 
National Lampoon (6/91): Zubrick & Pogeybait
Comics Journal 154 (11/92): Make Room for Dr. Motherfucker
Advance Comics (Capital City Previews (c.1/94)): 2-page Eightball narrative ad, drawn for this publication - exact date/issue is unknown
Little Lit (9/00): The Sleeping Beauty - reprinted in Big Fat Little Lit (2006)
The Comics Journal 233 (5/01): DC cover is an untitled full-page strip
The New Yorker (7/30/01): untitled 1/2 page strip
VPRO Gids 4 (1-2/02): 4 panel strip
Merry Christmas from Yo La Tengo (2002): Guinea Pig Xmas
Scram 17 (3/02): cover is an untitled strip
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (10/03): DC cover is a multi-panel narrative
McSweeney's 13 (5/04): The Darlington Sundays (also appears in The Art of Daniel Clowes, 2012)

2006-Present

Frankenstein (9/25/07): DC provides the art for the front/back cover and 2 flaps in the form of 4 strips -
Frankenstein strip titles: Victor, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, and an untitled cover strip
The Book of Other People (1/08): Justin M. Damiano - 4 pages (also appears in The Daniel Clowes Reader, 2013)
Ghost World: Special Edition (Summer 08): Where are They Now? (also appears in The Daniel Clowes Reader, 2013)
Ghost World: Special Edition (Summer 08): Ghost World (back cover)
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories (8.08): Joe Bristol Board
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories (8.08): Jimmy Jupiter, Galactic Pedant
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories (8.08): Ivan Brunetti
Kramers Ergot 7 (2008): Sawdust (also appears in The Art of Daniel Clowes, 2012)
McSweeney's 33 / San Francisco Panorama (12.9.09): Christian Astronauts (also appears in The Art of Daniel Clowes, 2012)
The New Yorker (3/15/10): Wilson in Day 16,412 - 2-page color strip that does not appear in
Wilson (since then appears in Drawn and Quarterly: Twenty Five Years)

Untitled published strip about Superman's birthday (c. 2013): first appeared on DC's official twitter account on 4.16.18 (DC's b-day).
Ditkoesque (2017): color-pencil roughs for two-page comic submitted to and rejected by The New Yorker. First published on Clowes's twitter on 7.9.18 https://twitter.com/danielclowes/status/1016407861633564672 

Stories/Strips That Appeared in Eightball But Were Not Collected Until The Complete Eightball #1-18 (2015):

The Eightball Profile: Pastor Robert Tilton (E3): 1 page

honk . . . h-honk (E6): 1 panel
Erika Katz (E9): 1 panel
Dickie: Disgusting Old Acne Fetishist (E10): multi-panel .5 page
Young Dan Pussey's Glamour Date
(E10): multi-panel .5 page
King Ego (E12): multi-panel .4 page
(also appears in The Daniel Clowes Reader, 2013)
Glue Destiny (E12): 6 pages [the only multi-page story from E (except full-issue stories in E22 (IH) and 23 (DR)) that has never been reprinted in English]
Ghost World (E16): multi-panel ad - .5 page
Insect (E17): 4 panels
The Lepidopterist (E17): 1 panel
Opposites Attract (E17): 1 panel
Powermaster (E17): 1 panel
The Latch-Key Kid (E18): multi-panel ad - .5 page

Short Stories/Strips That Only Appear in a Collection:
Each story in a DC collection has almost always been printed somewhere else first.
This list includes the exceptions, all of which are from TCE, P, and ADC.

Twentieth Century Eightball (2002)
Little Enid
Title Story
Man-Child (also
appears in The Daniel Clowes Reader, 2013)
Wallace Wood (also appears in The Daniel Clowes Reader, 2013)  
Tits
Tom Pudd (also
appears in The Daniel Clowes Reader, 2013)
You (also appears in The Daniel Clowes Reader, 2013)
About the Author 

Pussey! (2006 paperback)
Introduction (P) - this two-page comic appears in the 3rd printing of Pussey! (also appears in The Daniel Clowes Reader, 2013)

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (2012)
Jackson Pollock - sketchbook strip (ND)
Voyeur - sketchbook strip (ND, likely c.1991)

Other Strips:
DC has created various holiday cards and other family related material that feature strips - these have been circulated but never been reprinted:
some appear in The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (3/2012)


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