2 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and our countdown continues with more Clowes oddities that couldn’t be included in the book.

Museum Bound

The exhibition Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes displays original drawings in an installation environment. This first major survey of the artist’s work accompanies the publication of the extensive full-color monograph. The exhibition, which opens April 14 and runs through August 12, 2012 at OMCA in Oakland, CA, is organized by guest curator Susan Miller and Senior Curator of Art René de Guzman, with design by Nicholas de Monchaux. The exhibition will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, The Cocoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the many background drawings that Clowes has created for the installation environment: 

We’ve also included a test sample of animation that Nicholas de Monchaux is working on for the exhibition:

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here. 

In the news: New York Times profile

Carol Kino writes a profile on Daniel Clowes for the New York Times Art & Design section, look for this feature in print this Sunday.

For the online feature there's also this video of Clowes in his studio. 

3 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and our countdown continues with more Clowes oddities that couldn’t be included in the book.

Design Dept:

Daniel Clowes: “The only valuable class I took in art school was from a guy who taught display lettering which was literally like sign painting. Everybody else was like,  ‘Aww man, I can’t believe I have to take this cornball class,’ where I was front and center every week. Still to this day I use everything I learned in that class.”

Clowes created this font for the movie Art School Confidential

Various examples of Clowes’s handlettering.

Bonus:

Four unused proposals for the cover of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist.    

We are fortunate to have worked with Jonathan Bennett, who designed every aspect of the book. He’s not only an exceptional designer but an accomplished cartoonist. Here’s an a comic he recently did for Spin magazine: Nevermind

Early on, Jonathan Bennett flew out to Oakland to work with us on the book. He stayed in the Clowes’ guest apartment/basement and left behind a comic depicting his experience one of those nights. I don’t think he sleeps.

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here. 

4 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and our countdown continues with more oddities that we couldn’t include in the book.

The Chicago Years…

Here are some things from Clowes’s time in Chicago during the mid-1980s and early '90s:

This is an unpublished color version of the first page from the first "Lloyd Llewelleyn" story. Clowes sent the comic to Fantagraphics and, much to his surprise, 
they gave him his own series.

An excerpt from Lloyd Llewelleyn no. 5 along with custom drawings that Clowes made to fulfill the few responses to the offer.  

Two photos of Clowes in the early Eightball days.

A preliminary sketch for the cover of Eightball no. 7.

…and a Chicago-era addition to the just launched danielclowesdotcom you tube channel. Click play and wait for it... (R.I.P. James Ward)

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here. 

5 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and our countdown continues with more Clowes extras that couldn’t be included in the book.

Joey Ramone talks about Clowes and I Don’t Want to Grow Up 

& the Launch of the danielclowesdotcom youtube Channel

Daniel Clowes drew the art for the Ramones animated music video for their cover of Tom Waits's “I Don’t Want to Grow Up” in 1995. This clip, transferred from one of Dan's dusty old VHS tapes, features Joey Ramone talking with Jerry Bryant about his collaboration with Clowes. We’ve included some storyboards for the video.

With this post, we are officially launching the danielclowesdotcom youtube channel where we will post more archaic oddities that we found in an old box of VHS tapes in Dan’s basement.

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here. 

6 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and the countdown continues.

The Cutting Room Floor

 

From deep in the Clowes archives come a few illustration proposals that caught my eye. I particularly like the one that shows chatroom users as they are and how they imagine themselves to be...

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here.

7 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and the countdown continues.

???

We found this drawing tucked away at the bottom of one of Mr. Clowes’s drawers...

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here. 

8 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and the countdown continues.

Vida in Hollywood (unpublished)

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This is the original art for the first page of Vida in Hollywood, a strip that features a character from Ice Haven. Clowes finished this story in 2007 and has yet to publish it.

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here. 

9 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and the countdown continues.

Eightball around the World

Naturally, Daniel Clowes's comics are beloved around the globe. Here are covers for some of the many foreign editions. We’re not even sure what a couple of these languages are.

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here.

10 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and the countdown continues.

Clowesiana

Here's some Eightball T-shirts from over the years, a Garth Gyro baseball cap, a collaborative drawing by Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware for a Comic-Con T-shirt, glimpses from an odd Hong Kong apparel campaign, and Brendan Fraser in Monkeybone, Kathy Griffin on Loveline, and Simon Pegg in Paul, all sporting Eightball tees.

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here. 

11 days until the release of “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today)

…and the countdown continues.

Clowes Juvenilia

For today we have artwork by young Daniel Clowes. He created these drawings between the ages of 6 and 18. What kinda kid draws Spiro Agnew and Gerald Ford with his crayons anyway?

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (only US mailing addresses are eligible and no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code. Winners are being posted here. 

12 days until “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (*and your chance to win free copy)

…and the countdown continues.

Some Pages from Daniel Clowes's Sketchbooks

Alvin Buenaventura: “The above images are previously unpublished sketchbook pages from The Daniel Clowes Archive. They are some of our favorite drawings that didn't make it into the 230-page book. It was a real treat to spend days looking through Clowes’s many sketchbooks, which are full of amazing stuff.”

*The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Clowes. Throughout the countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (no PO boxes please) and put in the subject line today’s contest code.

13 days until “The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist”! (*and your chance to win free copy)

…and the countdown continues.

 Clowes Deck

In 1991, Daniel Clowes designed a deck titled "Mutant City" for Corey O'Brien and Santa Cruz Skateboards. Daniel Clowes adds, “ I have never set foot on a skateboard.”

*The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon. OR: Enter our contest for a chance to win a copy of the book autographed by Daniel Clowes. Throughout our countdown, one winner will be picked at random every day, so check boingboing.net for the daily code. To enter, send an email to artofdanielclowescontest@gmail.com with your mailing address (no PO boxes please) and put today’s contest code in the subject line.

14 days until "The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist"!

We’ll be counting down to the book's release with 14 daily posts of Clowes oddities on boingboing.net and danielclowes.com. Here’s the first:

¡Ay Dan Clowes! (Los Simpson en Español) y Correa de la Utilidad del Batman

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Daniel Clowes, along with Art Spiegelman and Alan Moore, appeared on The Simpsons episode titled "Husbands and Knives," first broadcast on November 18, 2007. Clowes was asked to draw a version of Batman's utility belt, but it was too detailed for the show’s minimal style.

The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist will be available April 1st. Order a copy today from your local bookseller, the publisher, or Amazon.

Two-Week Countdown to the Release of "The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist"!

Starting this Monday we begin our two-week countdown to the release of The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist. For each day leading up to its April 1st release (think advent calendar), we will post some items of interest and other oddities at danielclowes.com that were unearthed while working on this project. Our full access to the cartoonist’s archives provided an over-abundance of material (thank you Mr. Clowes!), so these daily posts will feature some of the never-before-seen gems that we couldn’t fit into the book’s 230 pages. They will also give you an idea of the volume’s diverse contents including: photos,  sketchbook pages and strips, childhood drawings, process art, unpublished work, illustrations, and so much more. Check back daily! 


Enter to win a free copy of the book here


The countdown posts:

• 03/19/12 - #14: !Ay, Dan Clowes! 
• 03/20/12 - #13: Clowes Deck
• 03/21/12 - #12: Sketchbook Pages
• 03/22/12 - #11: Juvenilia
• 03/23/12 - #10: Clowesiana
• 03/24/12 - #9: Eightball Around the World
• 03/25/12 - #8: Vida in Hollywood
• 03/26/12 - #7: ???
• 03/27/12 - #6: The Cutting Room Floor
• 03/28/12 - #5: Joey Ramone
• 03/29/12 - #4: Chicago Years
• 03/30/12 - #3: Design Dept.
• 03/31/12 - #2: Museum Bound
• 04/01/12 - #1: Odds & Ends

Mark your Calendar...

Updates to the 'upcoming events':

• March 16, 2012 - Release: Nancy is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945, vol. 1 by Ernie Bushmiller; introduction by Daniel Clowes
• March 28, 2012 - Interview with Rene de Guzman at Kadist 6pm
• April 1, 2012 - Release: The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist 
• April 5, 2012 - Signing: The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist at Meltdown Comics, Hollywood, CA. On stage, interview with Mark Frauenfelder of boingboing.net
• April 14, 2012 - Exhibition: Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes opens at the Oakland Museum of California
• May 17, 2012 - Signing: The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist at Quimby's Chicago, IL, 7pm
• September 15-16, 2012 - Special guest at SPX in Bethesda, MD with Los Bros Hernandez and Chris Ware