Books
*
The
Daniel Clowes Reader:
A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays,
Interviews,
and Annotations. FB, 2013.
*
The
Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist.
Abrams, 2012.
Edited by Alvin Buenaventura, co-edited
by me.
[Appeared
on The Washington
Post’s
“Best Books of 2012” list.]
*
Daniel Clowes: Conversations.
University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Co-edited with Isaac Cates.
*
Boys
at Home: Discipline, Masculinity, and
‘The
Boy-Problem’
in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
University of
Tennessee Press, 2009.
*
50 Essential Guitar Lessons.
New York: Hal Leonard, 2008.
(A revised version of
Guitar
9-1-1)
* Guitar
9-1-1: Lessons for Guitarists. New York: Hal Leonard, 2001.
Essays
*
"Image Over Text: Visual Emphasis and Understanding Comics."
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.
Vol. 6, Issue 3, Fall 2022. 300-308.
*
“Reading Characters, People, and Properties." In Boyhood Studies
15. November 2022.
*
“‘To Elevate Every Experience into Something Artistic and Exciting’: Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World.” In
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel. Cambridge University
Press. July 2018.
*
“'Unholy Momentum: Daniel Clowes’s Patience.”
Translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition of
Daniel Clowes's Patience.
Fulgencio Pimentel,
2016.
*
“Romantic.
Reform and Boys: Bronson. Alcott's Materialist Pedagogy.” In
Romantic
Education in Nineteenth-Century
American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts.
Routledge,
Jan. 2015.
Co-written with Anne Mallory.
*
The
Daniel Clowes Reader includes six essays by me:
“An Aesthetic Biography of Daniel Clowes.”
“An
Introduction to
The
Daniel Clowes Reader.”
“Clowes’s
Romanticism and the Urban Aesthetics of Ugly (1986-1998).” Co-written with
Anne Mallory.
“Decoding
'Black Nylon'.”
“Close
Reading Clowes's Dialogue: 'You've Grown into a Very Beautiful Young Woman.'”
“‘Me Worry?’ / ‘U BUY’”: Clowes and
Advertising in the 1990s.”
For the
collection, I also wrote short introductions for the Clowes stories and other material.
* “‘The
Medicine of Sympathy’: Mothers, Sons, and Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum
America.” Revised and reprinted
in
Sentimentalism in
Nineteenth-Century America: Literary and Cultural Practices.
Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
*
“Narration
After Y2K: Daniel Clowes and the End of Style.”
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern
Cartoonist.
2012.
*
“Steve
Ditko — HA! / AH! — Laughing at Death.”
Black Eye.
2011.
*
“Allegories
of Childhood Gender: Hawthorne and the Material Boy.”
The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review (36) 2010.
*
“What's This One About?”
A Re-Reader's Guide to Daniel Clowes's David Boring.”
Reprinted in
The Best American
Comics Criticism.
2010.
*
“The
Maestro from Another Planet: In Praise of Lawrence Welk's Otherworldly
Chiffon Paradise.”
The
Believer.
(2009 Music Issue). July/August
2009.
*
“‘Wake up, and be a man’”: Little Women, Laurie, and the Ethic of
Submission.” Reprinted in Children's Literature:
Classic Texts and
Contemporary Trends. Palgrave, 2009.
* “What
Our Boys Are Reading”: Lydia Sigourney, Francis Forrester, and Boyhood
Literacy in Nineteenth-Century
America.” Children's
Literature Association Quarterly (33) 2008.
* “Sometimes
We’re Lovable in Our Error’: The Career of Abner Dean.”
Comic Art (9) 2007.
* “‘The Medicine of
Sympathy’: Mothers, Sons, and Affective Pedagogy in Antebellum
America.”
Tulsa Studies in
Women’s Literature (25) 2006.
*
“A Re-Reader's Guide to David Boring.”
Comic Art (7) 2005.
*
“‘Wake up, and be a man’”: Little Women, Laurie, and the Ethic of
Submission.” Children’s Literature (29) 2001.
*
“All the Rage: Wordsworth’s Poetic Attack on Byron
in
Lines Addressed to a Noble Lord.” Papers on Language
and
Literature (37)
2001.
*
“Is There Life after Identity Politics?” New Literary
History (31) 2000. Co-editor of the NLH special issue
and
co-author of its
introduction.
Essays for The Comics Journal
*
“Steve
Ditko and the Comic-Book People.”
June 2019.
*
“Hope
I Die Before I Get.”
February 2019.
* “The
Plight of the Superhero Comic Book.”
June 2018.
* “Ghost
World at Twenty: Daniel Clowes’s
Dialogue.”
December 2017.
* “Everything Sells
Everything:
A Not-So-Secret History of Superman, Wonder Woman, and the
American Superhero.” October
2017.
* “Leslie Stein: A
Brief Appreciation.” July
2017.
*
“Lichtenstein and the Art of Letters.” April 2017.
*
“Error Report?: Comics, Text, and Editing.” September 2016.
*
“Comics Criticism: 2016.” August 2016.
*
“Lulu Hitchcock Apocrypha!”
May
2016.
*
“Black Panther #1: 31 Thoughts.” May
2016.
*
“'Unholy Momentum': Daniel Clowes’s Patience.”
March
2016.
*
“The
Truth about America’s Superheroes; Or, Real-Life Revisionism.”
November
2015.
* “Daniel Clowes and
Eightball,
1988-1998: Highlights, Mysteries, and Fun-Facts.”
June
2015.
* “Cartoon Solitude.” April
2015.
*
“2014:
Comics, New and Old, Part II.”
January 2015.
*
“2014:
Comics, New and Old, Part 1.”
January 2015.
* “2014's
Critic of the Year!” January 2015.
* “'The
Sponsor': A Fourteen Step Problem Comic.” November 2014.
* “2014:
New Comics, Old Problems.”
September 2014.
* “Don’t
Move: The Still Life of Pete Morisi.”
June 2014.
* “Five
From Koyama.”
May 2014.
* “Jack Kirby and Alex Niño: Innovation
at DC Comics in 1972.”
March 2014.
*
“This Strange Profession: Abner Dean Interrogates the Gag.”
January 2014.
*
“Comics
Survey: Word / Art, Part II.”
October 2013.
*
“Comics
Survey: Word / Art, Part I.” September 2013.
* “Red
People for a Red Planet”: Acme Novelty Library #19, Color, and the
Red Leitmotif.” July 2013.
* “Two
Questions Answered about 'The State of Comics Criticism: 2013.'”
April 2013.
*
“Friendly
Ghosts and Comics Form.”
February 2013.
*
“Secret
Loves: A Short History of Two Panels in Charles Burns's The Hive.”
November 2012.
*
“Steve
Ditko’s Cartooning: Abstraction / Word vs. Picture / Motion.”
November 2012.
*
“Construction
Manual: John Hankiewicz’s “The Kimball House.”
July 2012.
*
“Six
Observations: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Archive Are You My Mother?”
May 2012.
*
“This Man, This Monster: Super-Heroes
and Super-Sexism.”
March 2012.
*
“2011:
A Year in Comic Ambition.”
January 2012.
*
“The
Death-Ray Discussion Forum.”
November 2011.
*
“Event
Watch — Justice League #1: Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again . . .” September 2011.
*
“Drawing
Sex and Paying for It.”
June 2011.
*
“Bedlam
and Baby: Parables of Creation in Jack Kirby and Chris Ware.”
May 2011.
*
“Moto
Hagio’s "Bianca": Against Culture.”
March 2011.
Short commentary In Walt Disney's
The Complete Carl Barks series
*
“Tricky Experiment.” Walt Disney’s Donald
Duck: Cave of Ali Baba (Vol. 28). Seattle: FB, 2023.
* “The Cave of the
Winds. Walt Disney’s: Uncle Scrooge "The Golden Nugget Boat" (Vol.
26). Seattle: FB, 2022.
*
“The Master Mover.” Walt Disney’s
Donald Duck (Vol. 20).
Seattle: FB, 2020.
*
“Old Froggie Catapult.” Walt Disney’s
Donald Duck (Vol. 19).
Seattle: FB, 2018.
* “Three
Un-ducks.” Walt Disney’s Donald Duck (Vol. 17).
FB, 2017.
* "The
Truant Nephews." Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Vol. 10). FB, 2016.
* "The
Magic Hourglass." Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Vol. 9). FB, 2015.
* "The
Tuckered Tiger." Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Vol. 14). FB, 2014.
* "Super
Snooper." Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Vol. 8). FB, 2014.
* "Ring
Wrongs." Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Vol. 5). FB, 2013.
* "Darkest Africa."
Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Vol. 6). FB, 2013.
* "The
Screaming Cowboy." Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Vol. 2). FB, 2012.
* "Rocket Wing
Saves the Day." Walt Disney's Donald Duck (Vol. 2). FB, 2012.
Other Writing
* “A Cartoon World: Daniel Clowes's
Ice Haven.”
Boston Review (31) 2006.
* Introduction to the
exhibition catalog for the San Diego exhibition Original Comic Art.
Buenaventura Press, 2003.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECT
*
The Daniel Clowes Bibliography. 2001- Present.
In the Media / Interviews
*
Interviewed by
Paddy Johnston for the academic journal
The Comics Grid
(9/24/14)
*
Interviewed by Tom Spurgeon for
The Comics Reporter (8/25/13)
*
Interviewed for / quoted in
The Jewish Forward (8/23/13)
*
Interviewed for / quoted in
The Chicago Tribune (7/5/13)
*
Interviewed for / quoted in
The New York Times (4/1/12)
Book Reviews,
Encyclopedia Entries,
Bibliographies
* Review
of The Comics of Hergé: When the Lines Are Not So Clear. Edited by
Joe Sutliff Sanders.
Children's Literature Association Quarterly (42) 2017. 248-250.
*
Review of Schooling Readers: Reading Common Schools in
Nineteenth-Century American Fiction by
Allison Speicher. Nineteenth-Century
Literature (71) 2017. 559-562.
*
Review of
X'ed Out by Charles Burns. The Comics Journal. 2010.
*
Review of
Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection,
and the Fictional Child by
Annette
Wannamaker. Children's Literature Association Quarterly (33) 2008.
* Review
of Serialized Citizenships: Periodicals, Books, and American Boys, 1840-1911
by Lorinda Cohoon.
Children’s
Literature Association Quarterly (31) 2006.
*
“A
Daniel Clowes Bibliography.” P.L.G. (37) 2003. (P.L.G. is a French journal)
* Review of Good Girl Messages by Deborah O’Keefe. Iris: A Journal about Women (42) 2001.
*
“Boyhood,” “Jack and Jill,” “Alfred Whitman,”
and “Ladislas Wisniewski.” The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia.
Greenwood
Press, 2001.
*
Review of The Letters of Robert Crumb by Robert Crumb.
The
Journal of Popular Culture (34) 2000.
Music Education Publications
*
50 Essential Guitar Lessons.
New York: Hal Leonard, 2008.
(A revised version of
Guitar
9-1-1)
*
LessonLab: The Best of 1995-2000. New York: Hal Leonard, 2002. Reprints “Advanced Phrasing” and “Songwriting
for Guitar.”
*
Guitar
9-1-1: Lessons for Guitarists. New York: Hal Leonard, 2001.
*
“Advanced Phrasing.” GuitarOne. Cherry Lane Music, May 2000.
Reprinted and translated into Thai in Overdrive magazine, 2008.
* “Songwriting for Guitar.”
GuitarOne.
Cherry Lane Music, December 1999.
Interviews
with Cartoonists
* “Nothing
Good Can Come Out of Dishonesty”: An Interview about Teaching with Ivan
Brunetti. The Comics Journal. April, 2011.
*
“A
Retrospective Interview with Daniel Clowes.”
In
Daniel Clowes: Conversations.
Edited by Ken Parille and Isaac
Cates.
University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
(Conducted July 2009.)
*
Lisa Hanawalt.
The Blog Flume.
2010.
Internet 'Publications'
*
Blog Flume {go here
for posts by me.}
Conferences and Presentations
* “Murder
and Misogyny in Mid-Twentieth-Century Children’s Comic Books.”
Children’s Literature Association,
Richmond, June 2015.
* “Daniel
Clowes's Ice Haven and the Art of Introductions.”
DICE, Durham, November, 2013.
* “Tales
of the Dark Knight: Batman as Mosaic, Myth and Folk Hero” by Will Brooker.
Greenville, October 2012. Respondent.
*
“Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist.” Invited. SPX, Bethesda,
September 2012. Panelist / Interviewer.
*
“A Conversation with Jim Woodring.” Invited. SPX, Bethesda, 2011.
Moderator.
*
“Fredric Wertham,
Sensation, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Children’s Comic Books.”
Children’s Literature Association,
Roanoke, June 2011.
*
“A Conversation about Daniel Clowes,
with Ken Parille and
Isaac Cates.” Invited. SPX, Bethesda, September 2010.
*
“Critics’
Panel: How We Judge.” Invited. SPX, Bethesda, September 2010. Panelist.
*
Developing Iconographies,
with Cartoonists Eamon Espey, Kevin Huizenga, and Tom Kaczynski.” Invited. SPX, Bethesda,
September 2010. Interviewer.
*
“Thrashing the Boys. Gender,
Boyhood, and Corporal Punishment in Three Nineteenth-Century American
Children's Novels
Children's Literature Association Conference Convention, Charlotte, June 2009.
Presenter.
*
“Superheroes, Childhood, and Mom's
Stockings: Daniel Clowes's "Black Nylon." SAMLA Convention,
Louisville, November 2008.
Presenter.
*
“Jason and the Appropriator: Fashion, Photos, and Comics.” International
Comic Art Forum. Washington DC,
October 2007.
Presenter.
*
“Hey
Perverts! Comics!: Stories for Children?”
Comics and Childhood: The
Annual
University
of
Florida Comics
Conference. Gainesville, February 2006.
Presenter.
*
“Harvey
Pekar, American Splendor, and the Autobiographical Comic Book in
America.” Hereford Film and Speaker Series.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 2004.
Guest Speaker.
*
“The
Textual History of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan.” I was invited by
Professors Jerome McGann and Johanna Drucker
to speak to the
University
of
Virginia's Media Studies Graduate Seminar.
Charlottesville, October 2001.
*
“Invisible
Boy: Laurie, Submission, Scholarship, and Little Women,” Gender
Identity Development in American Literature Panel,
American Literature Association. Baltimore, May 1999.
Presenter.
*
Co-organizer,
“‘Is There Life after Identity Politics’: A Conference in U.S. Cultural
Studies,” with speakers Walter Benn
Michaels, Robyn Wiegman, Eric Lott, Deborah McDowell, Philip Michael Harper, José
David Saldívar.
Charlottesville,
March 1999.
* “Mythology
and Poetic Competition in Byron’s Manfred.” Classicism in Romanticism
Panel, Northeast Modern Language
Association.
Baltimore, April 1998.
Presenter.
* “Horatio
Alger’s Ragged Dick and the Domestic Novel.” Fictions of Gender and
Genre Panel, Conference on Texts and
Contexts,
University
of
Virginia.
Charlottesville, April 1996.
Presenter.
* “The
Trials of Teaching Wieland: Active Learning and Textual Support,”
Connecticut
Trustees’ Conference on Teaching and
Learning.
New Britain, May 1994.
Presenter.