Sneak Peak: "The Complete Eightball 1-18" Slipcase Cover

This is the final art for the front of the slipcase for the two-volume set The Complete Eightball 1-18. Published by Fantagraphics and due out later this year. WOW!

More info and pre-order here.

Ohio Bound!

Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes opens at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio this Friday, May the 16th and the artist will be in attendance to help kick off this show as well as Eye of the Cartoonist: Daniel Clowes’s Selections from Comics History which is another exhibition running concurrently at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum that he curated. 

On the following day, Saturday the 17th at 7 pm in the Mershon Auditorium at the Wexner Center for the Arts Daniel Clowes and Hillary Chute will talk about the Modern Cartoonist exhibition, the artist's career, as well as his role in curating the Eye of the Cartoonist: Selections from Comic History.

For those of you that can't join us for the weekend's events both of these exhibitions are open through August 3rd, 2014.

Have You Seen Me?

(11:32pm PST) UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who wrote in and also to everyone who helped us to get the word out. The owner of the art contacted us today and we are very close to wrapping up so look for The Complete Eightball 1-18 available from Fantagraphics books later this year!

We are trying to locate the original cover art for Eightball #7. We believe it was last owned and perhaps still in the possession of a Sam Hughes as seen on the website “Comic Art Fans”. We’ve haven’t had any luck contacting him directly as his post was made over 10 years ago.

So we are casting out a wider net hoping that someone that reads this will have a tip, lead, or some kind of information concerning this piece of art. If you do, please contact info@danielclowes.com. Mr. Clowes is offering a sketch to anyone that provides us with a print quality scan of this line art and danielclowes.com is offering a gift to anyone with information that directly leads us to locating this art.

And even if you don’t have any info but want to help, please help us spread the word by blogging/sharing/RTing this post. The final touches are being made on the project that this is needed for, The Complete Eightball 1-18 which is due out later this year from Fantagraphics, so we hope to find this soon!

New in the Webshop...

We uncovered some stray tote bags that were made for SPX 2012 when Daniel Clowes was a special guest for the expo. There's only 5 so if you want one, act quick! You can order them from our updated webshop on the 'misc.' page 

Clowes Original Art now available at Pigeon Press Gallery

Daniel Clowes original art now available at www.pigeonpressgallery.com. This new web gallery also offers work from Charles Burns, Ivan Brunetti, and others.

The webshop has been also been updated with a couple new sections including an 'Original Art' page which has a link to the Clowes work currently available at Pigeon Press Gallery. Check back for updates.