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Teacher / author of books on Daniel Clowes, nineteenth-century boyhood, and guitar playing / essays in academic journals and elsewhere.

Comicsville + Cat Country USA
Joined April 2010
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Jaime Hernandez “A Life in Comics”
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Bjork by Burns
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From upcoming Adrian Tomine comic
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Hermès porcelain tray, Daniel Clowes art.
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I’m sorry I ever adopted you as my son
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Daniel Clowes, original art detail
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9/24/24
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One of my favorite romance comic book artists, Liz Berube, who signed her work “Elizabeth.”
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Reading old romance comics a while back, I saw this panel, which I recognized as a source for this Charles Burns image.
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Unused Clowes cover and sketch
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Clowes (1998) and not Clowes
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don’t think this isn’t all of us
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I love this coloring. People say this approach is the sign of a lazy colorist. Bah.
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Tweet! Beware of the devil! Tweet!
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Perfect
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Daniel Clowes, cover to forthcoming ‘The Death-Ray’ paperback
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1966, Treasure Chest #22 .
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On sale date: July 9, 2024. “From the imagination of Charles Burns: 80 comic books that never were.” A collection of 80 imaginary covers.
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children’s literature
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I typically identify with a comic book’s villain, as I do with this fellow
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September
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While reading some 1950s horror comics today, I saw a panel that made me think of a Charles Burns image I had seen — after some searching, I found it.
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“‘The coming meat’ . . . .Solid and compressed, but moist.” An unnerving collection of words, a discomfort magnified by the image.
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(my most popular tweet)
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I would guess that early Clowes art was influenced by Al Hartley Christian comics. Both have a lot of “urban despair“ scenes. I like the smoking ads in these . . .
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In honor of World Goth Day, here's that time Daniel Clowes drew some goths for Vogue:
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Hermès Dress Code Change Tray by Daniel Clowes.
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Odd to read two comics about thieving cops and fruit stands on the same day
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Chris Ware's tribute to Peanuts (Schulz's strip ended 20 years ago today):
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Daniel Clowes, 1993
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OOOH!
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!!! 30 years ago, in August 1989, Fantagraphics releases one of the most important comic books of the 20th century: Daniel Clowes’s Eightball #1 . (As far as I could determine, 8/8/89 was the on-sale date.)
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Ditko / Clowes
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Steve Ditko, c. 1970
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I see lots of ‘fans’ and ’pros‘ saying how much they wished #SteveDitko could’ve seen the #SpiderVerse movie. Ditko made it clear he didn’t like the way these people treated him and his work. Check out my piece to get Ditko’s views on the “industry“:
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DITKO
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Daniel Clowes
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Chris Ware, Batman
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the less there is in an image, often the more I want to look at it
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Richie Rich vs. Watchmen. Richie did it first and better!
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Batman utility belt, by Daniel Clowes
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Daniel Clowes on style: “I always think of style as something that’s the distance between what you want something to look like, and what your hand and brain make it look like unintentionally. And there’s quite a gap there, and there’s some interesting stuff in that gap.”
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Steve Ditko!
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Some good news
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Wolverton story
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Jack Kirby, 1947
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Daniel Clowes
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RIP Joe Matt.
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Ditko draws inter-dimentional doorways
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Burns
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When my local comics shop was moving, this great Joe Matt poster, which had been stuck on the wall for ages, was rescued by me and now resides in my home:
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a very nice panel
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a favorite Clowes LP cover
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After reading Monica, I went shopping. While waiting at the checkout, a store employee walked over and said to me, “Aisle 7 is open — you can go there.” So I went, and sitting on the edge of the conveyer belt was this:
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W Wood
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So very sad to hear about Patrick Dean. His dedication to art was — and is — deeply inspirational.
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old comics disturb me
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Clowes, original art detail
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sketch, printed version
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