Alan moore
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Daniel Clowes Biography
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Daniel Clowes has been working on his latest book, Patience, for five years. At 180 pages, it’s his longest work to date, more than twice as long as Wilson, his graphic novel about an abrasive loner in Oakland who claims to be a people person but actually can’t stand most of them (nor they him), and Ghost World, the artist’s most popular work, about the disintegrating relationship between two teen girls in an unnamed American suburb. From the time Clowes began the book in 2010 until its completion last October, he didn’t show a single page of it to anyone, not to Erika, his wife of 20 years, nor to his publishers at Fantagraphics, who will release the book this March, nor to his closest friends.
Clowes is in an upstairs room of his Piedmont home, a lovely two-story 1912 Craftsman set along an equally lovely tree-lined street of this East Bay suburb, talking about how the book came to be. Six feet tall and slim, Clowes has a salt-and-pepper beard and sharp blue eyes. Despite possessing the most sardonic of wits on paper, he laughs easily and often in person, at his jokes a
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Readers may not associate alternative comics legend Daniel Clowes with autobiography, but he’s always been present in his work.
“It’s funny. I always think every book is not really that personal,” the cartoonist, who’s responsible for the seminal Ghost World, recently told Vanity Fair over Zoom. “Then, I’ll go back years later and read it and every page has something that happened to me or that’s based on some true emotion that I think about every day. So they’re all really personal.”
His latest graphic novel, the pulpy and piercing Monica, which will be released by Fantagraphics on Tuesday, takes this to a new level. The book is made up of nine interconnected narratives that fit together to tell the life story of its titular heroine. After selling her eponymous candle company for a hefty sum, Monica decides to spend the first part of her retirement tracking down the bohemian mother who abandoned her with her grandparents during the height of the Swinging Sixties. She interviews all the freaks and weirdos who knew her mom, Penny, during the era and ends up “deep in t
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