Stories in Non-Clowes Titles
What follows is a list of stories and strips (no attempt is made to
define the difference) by DC (or ones he co-created)
that have been published outside of his
comic books and
collections. Some of these first
appeared in
E, LL, and ANLL,
a fact indicated in the list; many,
however, never appeared
there. Stories that have not been published in either a
DC comic book or collection are identified (UC), for uncollected. For
two lists
that include only the uncollected stories, please see
here.
[A] means DC did the art only; in some cases, the writer [W:] is identified; if
DC only inked, colored, or lettered the story, that
fact is indicated. If DC colored the strip, that entry has 'clr.' Other strips may be color, but
that fact is not indicated if DC is not the colorist.
DC's work in Cracked Magazine has its own
section below because the number of stories is considerable.
For a key to abbreviations, go
here. For information on places DC stories
have appeared, see this alphabetical
list.
'The Last Time I Saw Irving' in Love & Rockets 13 (9/85) is first DC story from an established
publisher (Fantagraphics). This section of the bibliography does not include
translations (see Translations).
Entry format: publication/place where it appeared and issue #
{if relevant} (date of publication): Story Title -
comments
Before 1989
The Galactic Outpost 2 (1/79): Epsilon -
art/story by DC and Peter Friedrich (UC)
Psycho Comics 1 (2/81): A Pleasantville Tragedy (UC)
Psycho Comics 1 (2/81): Dear Ann Landers (UC)
Psycho Comics 1 (2/81): Accidents Will Happen (UC)
Look Mom Presents 1 (1981): Introducing Bill Trouble in Danger at It's Best (UC)
- front cover title Look Mom Comics Presents: The Previous Future
Psycho Comics 2 (4/82): The Squirt (with Mort Todd) (UC)
Psycho Comics 2 (4/82): Heartbreak Honeymoon [A] (UC)
Psycho Comics 2 (4/82): Buster Learns the Hard Way [A] (UC)
Psycho Comics 2 (4/82): Mimi the Model in Mimi Goes Psycho (Mort Todd: story,
pencils - DC: inks) (UC)
Love & Rockets 13 (9/85): The Last Time I Saw Irving
Anything Goes 3 (3/86): For Losers Only clr (UC)
Doomsday Squad 2 (9/86): Under the Big Top
Honk! 1 (11/86): Look Out! It's the Squirt [A] [W: Mort Todd] - written/drawn in
1983 (UC)
Blab! 2 (Summer 87): A Show of Violence - adaptation of Fredric Wertham's
A Show of Violence
Anything Goes 4 (5/87): The Divisible Man vs The Unholy 3 [DC inks and letters,
with lettering under the name Chic Chumley - written/penciled by Mort Todd] (UC)
Anything Goes 4 (5/87): Girly Girl and Her Pal Chuckie-Boy [colorist only (W/A:
Peter Bagge) (UC)
Twist 1 (9/87): Freddy Brown the Squirt in Shelter Skelter [A] [W: Mort Todd] (UC)
Judo Joe 1 (10/87): Streets of Terror - lettering only, signed 'Chic Chumley' (UC)
Strike! 6 (2/88): The Rattler in The Crime Wizards - DC pencils, inks, and
letters, under the name Johnny Firebaugh [W: Chuck Dixon] (UC)
Prime Cuts 7 (3/88): I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby - adaptation of lyrics
by A. Inman (UC)
Twist 2 (5/88): Freddy Brown the Squirt in The Dope Peddler
Amazing Heroes 161 (5/89): #$@&! Part One and Part Two
Blab! 3 (9/88): Seduction of the Innocent - adaptation of Fredric Wertham's
Seduction of the Innocent
Twist 3 (10/88): Freddy Brown, the Squirt in The Operator
1989-1998
No Sex 16 (3/89): That's the Way it Goes - the art is dated 7/79 (UC)
Blab! 4 (Summer 89): 666
Weirdo 25 (Summer 89): Life in These United States [A] [W: Peter Bagge]
The Best Comics of the 80s Vol. 2 (5/90): Dementia Praecox (ANLL)
Blab! 5 (Summer 90): One for the Father [A] [W: James Clowes]
Young Lust 7 (1990): Frankie & Johnnie - adaptation of poem from a collection
titled Immortalia
National Lampoon (4/91): Curtain of Sanity
National Lampoon (5/91): Zubrick & Pogeybait
National Lampoon (6/91): Zubrick & Pogeybait (UC)
Village Voice (6/91): Color TV
National Lampoon (7/91): Zubrick & Pogeybait
National Lampoon (8/91): Zubrick
National Lampoon (9/91): Zubrick & Pogeybait
National Lampoon (10/91): Zubrick & Pogeybait
Cad, a Handbook for Heels (1991): Frankie & Johnnie
The New Comics Anthology (1991): The Laffin' Spittin' Man (E1)
Planet (1/92): Zerrit - 3 panel strip drawn by DC and written by Koo in a
Chicago newspaper
(UC)
Doofus 1 (4/92): The Dude - story by DC and Rick Altergott, art by Altergott
Details (8/92): What Would You Do if You Were President? [A] (W: David
Greenberger) clr
Comics Journal 154 (11/92): Make Room for Dr. Motherfucker - written in mid-80s
? (UC)
Mondo 3-D (1992): A Show of Violence (adaptation of Fredric Wertham)
(Blab! 2)
Chicago Cartoon 2 (1993/2001): Dan Pussey in The Artist's Life (E9) [1993, 16
copies; 11/2001, 20 copies assembled from existing pages and reprinted cover]
Butt Biscuit 1 (7/1993): nine-panel comic written by DG, lettering by DC who
drew one panel. DC as "Dean Clothes"
Future Sex 3 (1993): Sexual Frustration (E4) clr
Hateball (1993): The Party (E11): free comic from Clowes/Bagge Tour - printed in
b/w and has the text 'in color' removed from the title
Advance Comics (Capital City
Previews (c.1/94)): a 2 page Eightball narrative ad, drawn for this publication
- exact date/issue is unknown
Different Beat Comics (3/94): Let the Punishment Fit the Crime [A] [W: Peter
Bagge] (see Cracked 220) (UC)
Hypno (12/94): Zubrick's Pal Pogeybait clr
Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police [Jello Biafra's 1994 CD]: Devil Doll? (E1)
reprinted in the format of a Jack Chick Tract and included with CD
The GenX Reader (1994): The Party (In Color) (E11) - printed in b/w
Esquire (7/98): Green Eyeliner (C) clr
Graphism from North America (1998): CD includes two
DC stories Needledick
the Bug-Fucker (E7) and Ink Studs (E9)
1999-2005
The San Antonio Current (10/?/99): On Sports (E14) reprinted in
two-page version [See San Antonio Express (10/29/99), TCJ 218 (12/99)]
Little Lit (9/00): The Sleeping Beauty clr (UC)
The Comics Journal 233 (5/01): DC cover is an untitled full-page strip clr (UC)
The New Yorker (7/30/01): an untitled 1/2 page strip clr (UC)
House 3 (7/01):
Art School Confidential (E7)
Ghost World Soundtrack (7/01): CD booklet has a
one-page strip entitled Ghost World clr
Ghost World Soundtrack promotional
poster (7/01): uses the above strip
VPRO Gids 4 (1-2/02): 4
panel strip 'Daniel Clowes' - VPRO Gids is a Dutch TV magazine, similar to TV Guide clr (UC)
The Doofus Omnibus (12/02): The Dude - written by DC and Rick Altergott
[A] - first published as a minicomic
Merry Christmas from Yo La Tengo
(2002): Guinea Pig Xmas - on the CD insert (UC)
No More Shaves (1/03):
What Do You Think George Washington's Voice Sounded Like? (E2)
No More
Shaves (1/03): What Can Robots Do? (E3)
Scram 17 (3/02): cover is an
untitled strip about a fictional musician named Wilbur Kopek clr (UC)
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (10/03): the DC cover is a
multi-panel narrative clr
Enid Hi-Fashion Glamour Doll (2/04): Enid in the
Year 2525 A.D. - strip appears on the side of the box clr
Enid
Hi-Fashion Glamour Doll (2/04): Enid 1,000,000 B.C. - strip appears on the side
of the box clr
McSweeney's 13 (5/04): The Darlington Sundays - a
four page strip clr (UC)
Comix: The Underground Revolution (2004):
reprints 2/3 of Needledick the Bug-Fucker (E7)
Salt 3 (Winter 2004): What Can Robots Do?
(E3) - Salt is a zine
The New Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Stories: From
Crumb to Clowes (2004): Caricature (E15)
Pogeybait Doll (2/05): Zubrick &
Pogeybait - strip from National Lampoon (5/91) appears on bottom of box
Funny Book 1 (5/05): Dan Pussey Presents: Komic Kollector's Korner (E8)
2006-2011
An Anthology of Graphic
Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (2006): Gynecology (E17)
Big Fat
Little Lit (2006): The Sleeping Beauty clr (UC)
Clowes 2006 Holiday Card (12/06): (UC)
Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age (5/17/07): Like a
Weed, Joe (E16)
New York Times Sunday Magazine (9/16/07-2/10/08): Mister Wonderful is serialized
for 20 Sundays clr
New York Times Sunday Magazine
(9/16/07): Mister Wonderful Chapter 1
New York Times Sunday Magazine (9/23/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 2
New York Times Sunday Magazine (9/30/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 3
New York Times Sunday Magazine (10/7/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 4
New York Times Sunday Magazine (10/14/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 5
New York Times Sunday Magazine (10/21/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 6
New York Times Sunday Magazine (10/28/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 7
New York Times Sunday Magazine (11/4/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 8
New York Times Sunday Magazine (11/11/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 9
New York Times Sunday Magazine (11/18/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 10
New York Times Sunday Magazine (11/25/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 11
New York Times Sunday Magazine (12/2/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 12
New York Times Sunday Magazine (12/16/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 13
New York Times Sunday Magazine (12/23/07): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 14
New York Times Sunday Magazine (1/6/08): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 15
New York Times Sunday Magazine (1/13/08): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 16 (misdated 1/13/07)
New York Times Sunday Magazine (1/20/08): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 17
New York Times Sunday Magazine (1/27/08): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 18
New York Times Sunday Magazine (2/3/08): Mister Wonderful
Chapter 19
New York Times Sunday Magazine (2/10/08): Mister Wonderful
Conclusion
Frankenstein (9/25/07): DC provides the art for the front/back cover and
2 flaps in the form of four color comics for the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (UC)
Frankenstein four
strips: untitled cover strip, Victor, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Clowes 2007 Holiday Card (12/07): (UC)
The Book of Other People (1/08): Justin M. Damiano - a four page strip clr (UC)
Erika Clowes PhD Announcement (5/08): 5 panel strip clr (UC)
Ghost World: Special Edition (Summer 08): Where are They Now? (UC)
Ghost World: Special Edition (Summer 08): Ghost World (back
cover) (UC)
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True
Stories (8.08): Joe Bristol Board (UC)
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True
Stories (8.08): Jimmy Jupiter, Galactic Pedant (UC)
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True
Stories (8.08): Ivan Brunetti (UC)
Kramers Ergot 7 (2008): Sawdust clr (UC)
Eisner 1 (2008): reprints Art School Confidential - published by Beeld Beeld
Verhalen
McSweeney's 33 aka San Francisco Panorama (12.9.09): The Christian Astronauts
clr (UC)
The New Yorker (3/15/10): Wilson in Day 16412 - two-page color strip
not in
Wilson
2012
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist
(3/2012)
The story contents from the Clowes monograph:
Eightball - from Eightball 9 (1992) [first
page of this 2-page story is the original art]
Gross is Great - original art for
2-page story from Cracked 228 (7/87)
Laughing Matter - original art
for 1-page story from Cracked 218 (3/86)
Uggly Family - original art for
1-page story from Cracked 234 (3/88)
Color TV - comic strip from The Village Voice, 1991
Untitled strip -
1/2 page strip with colored pencils from
The New Yorker (7/30/01)
Fuzzy Popeye 1 - collaborative
mini comic
with Prewitt, Ware, Laban, Leib (1992)
Lousy Bitch 1 - collaborative
mini comic
with Prewitt, Ware, Leib (5/21/92)
Darlington Sundays -
a
4-page strip clr from McSweeney's
13 (5/04)
Ink Studs - 1-page strip from
Eightball 9 (1992)
The Christian Astronauts - large
1-page strip from McSweeney's 33 aka San Francisco Panorama (12.9.09)
Wilson in Day 16,412 - 2-page color strip from The New Yorker (3/15/10)
[strip does not appear in Wilson]
Sawdust - large 1-page strip from
Kramers Ergot 7 (2008) [reprinted here in 2-pages]
Jackson Pollock -
1-page sketchbook strip (nd)
[the only time it has appeared in print]
Voyeur -
1-page sketchbook strip (nd,
likely c.1991) [the only time it has appeared in print]
2013-Present
An untitled published strip about
Superman's birthday appeared on DC's official twitter account on 4.16.18 (DC's
b-day).
The b/w comic
was created c. 2013. (See
here.)
Clowes Family Xmas card
(2013): 10-panel narrative card
Drivel (2014) and
LitHub (7/10/15): Professor Eatanoff (And His Guidebook of Proper Procedure
for Flesheaters) [from 1984]
Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years (5/2015):
Wilson in Day 16412 [two-page color strip from The New Yorker (3/15/10) that
does not appear in Wilson]
Resist! (6/2017): untitled 2-page comic about Donald Trump's parents
[Daniel Clowes twitter
4.14.18]: Untitled published strip about Superman's birthday (c. 2013) -
appeared on DC's official account on 4.14.18 (DC's b-day).
[Daniel Clowes twitter 7.9.18]: 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
Art and Stories in Cracked Magazine:
DC did freelance work for Cracked from 1985-1989. His work was
reprinted throughout the mid-late 1980s and may have been reprinted
as late as 1993 (see DC interview in Don't
Touch Me 6). The last reprint I have found is dated
8/91 (Cracked Monster Party 13).
DC's first work is dated 11/85; the first Uggly Family story is dated
Winter 86; DC's last non-reprint publication is dated
7/89, only months before Eightball 1 appeared. DC's pseudonyms for the
Uggly Family stories are 'Stosh Gillespie,' 'Stash Gillespie,' and
possibly 'Slim Llewellyn' (see Cracked 219). Most Uggly Family stories are
written by 'Eel O' Brian' (pseudonym for Mort Todd / Michael Del Femine).
Some work was done under 'Dan Clowes': Cracked 216, 218, 220; Cracked Digest 4;
DC's name is on cover of Collectors' Edition 83 and Digest 4. In
Extra-Special
Cracked 9 the editor says that 'Stosh Gillespie and Eel O'Brian
are pseudonyms for two comics pro's [sic] whose work has appeared in
DC comics, Fantagraphics Books and yes, even Cracked!' In a profile of Stosh Gillespie in Cracked 226, the editor says that he
'contributes to Lloyd
Llewellyn'; in Cracked Collectors' Edition
75, he says that 'Stosh Gillespie is actually Dan Clowes.'
Many Uggly Family episodes have the same title (The Uggly Family) but are
actually different stories, so I have provided a very brief description
of the story in {}. All stories are black and white except where
indicated clr, for color. None of these appear in a DC collection.
The only Cracked story to be reprinted outside of a Cracked-related title is Let
the Punishment Fit the Crime [Cracked 220 (7/86)], which
appears in Different Beat Comics (Fantagraphics 1994), a publication tied
to a promotional campaign.
The Cracked worked is listed and alphabetically/chronologically by title and by
first appearance or reprint status.
For a purely chronological list of this work, see
here.
Cracked 216 (11/85): Aren't You Nervous When? [A]
Cracked 218 (3/86): . . . Am I Normal? [A]
Cracked 218 (3/86): Laughing Matter [A] DC
under the name Herk Abner
Cracked 219 (5/86): small Uggly Family illustration, p.5
Cracked 220 (7/86): Let the Punishment Fit the Crime [A] [W: Peter Bagge]
Cracked 221 (8/86): The Uggly Family Starring Melbin [A]
Cracked 224 (11/86): The Uggly Family [A] {Melbin's meteor repeller}
Cracked 225 (1/87): A Day in the Life of The Uggly Family Game [A]
Cracked 226 (3/87): Uggly Family Portrait (inside back cover-clr ) [A]
Cracked 228 (7/87): Gross is Great [A]
Cracked 229 (8/87): Transylvanian TV [A] (DC does
one page of the art)
Cracked 229 (8/87): The Uggly Family in Meet the Trashformers [A]
Cracked 232 (11/87): Melbin and The Uggly Family in Dragnut [A]
Cracked 233 (1/88): Melbin illustration that also appears in Blab! 2
Cracked 234 (3/88): The Uggly Family [A] {UF eat raw food} (inside front
cover-clr)
Cracked 234 (3/88): The Uggly Family [A] {Dick Tracy parody}
Cracked 235 (5/88): Uggly Family Recipe #1 Dump Cake [A]
Cracked 237 (8/88): The Uggly Family Go to the Olympics [A]
Cracked 240 (11/88): Weird Fun with The Uggly Family [A]
Cracked 240 (11/88): Tales My Unca Gran'pa Told Me [A]
[Cracked 241 (12/88): DC appears in two photos taken
at a Cracked party, with captions by Mort Todd]
Cracked 243 (3/89): The Zillionaire Starring The Uggly Family [W/A]
Cracked 244 (5/89): The Uggly Family in Elvis, You're a Janitor [W/A]
Cracked 245 (7/89): letters page has a preview of the DC cover for
Cracked Monster Party 5
Cracked Digest 4 (7/87): Shut Ups! - DC contributes 3 one-page gags
Cracked Giant 43 (3/86): The Uggly Family [A] {Melbin's weird science
project}(2nd Uggly Family story)
Cracked Monster Party 5 (7/89): The Uggly Family Album [W/A] - has a DC
cover
Extra-Special Cracked 9 (Winter 1986): Melbin Goes to School The Uggly
Family [A] (1st Uggly Family story)
Cracked Reprints:
Cracked Collectors' Edition 68 (11/86): Aren't You Nervous
When? (see Cracked 216)
Cracked Collectors' Edition 68 (11/86): Melbin Goes to School The Uggly
Family (see Extra-Special Cracked 9)
Cracked Collectors' Edition 72 (9/87): The Uggly Family {Melbin's meteor
repeller} (see Cracked 224)
Cracked Collectors' Edition 73 (1/88): Uggly Family Portrait (back cover)
(see Cracked 226)
Cracked Collectors' Edition 74 (4/88): Melbin Goes to School The Uggly
Family (see Extra-Special Cracked 9 )
Cracked Collectors' Edition 75 (7/88): The Uggly Family in Meet the
Trashformers (see Cracked 229)
Cracked Collectors' Edition 80 (9/89): The Uggly Family {UF eat raw food}
(see Cracked 234)
Cracked Collectors' Edition 80 (9/89): The Uggly Family Go to the Olympics
(see Cracked 237)
Cracked Collectors' Edition 83 (7/90): Aren't You Nervous When? (see Cracked
216)
Cracked Collectors' Edition 84 (9/90): The Zillionaire Starring The Uggly
Family (see Cracked 243)
Cracked Digest 2 (1/87): The Uggly Family {Melbin's weird science project}
(see Cracked Giant 43)
Cracked Monster Party 1 (7/88): A Day in the Life of The Uggly Family Game
(see Cracked 225)
Cracked Monster Party 4 (4/89): Transylvanian TV (see Cracked 229)
Cracked Monster Party 7 (11/89): The Uggly Family {Melbin's weird science
project} (see Cracked Giant 43)
Cracked Monster Party 8 (1/90): A Day in the Life of The Uggly Family Game
(see Cracked 225) [ in color (inside front and back covers)]
Cracked Monster Party 8 (1/90): The Uggly Family Album (see Cracked Monster
Party 5)
Cracked Monster Party 9 (6/90): The Uggly Family in Elvis, You're a Janitor
(see Cracked 244)
Cracked Monster Party 10 (10/90): The Zillionaire Starring The Uggly Family
(see Cracked 243)
Cracked Monster Party 12 (4/91): [lists Stosh Gillespie as a contributor,
but I can't find anything]
Cracked Monster Party 13 (8/91): Gross is Great (see Cracked 228)
Super Cracked 1 (Summer 87): The Uggly Family Starring Melbin (see Cracked
221)
Super Cracked 3 (Winter 89): The Uggly Family {Dick Tracy parody} (see
Cracked 234)
Cracked Classics [The 3-D Zone 19] (1989): 3-D version of The Uggly Family
{Dick Tracy parody} (see Cracked 234)
Different Beat Comics (3/94): Fantagraphics one-shot reprints Let the
Punishment Fit the Crime (see Cracked 220)