Holiday Sale: Extended through Cyber Monday...

The SALE has been extended through Cyber Monday. For the annual holiday gift buying frenzy, we're offering free shipping on the Eightball #18 cover print at a discount price of $375. Even though we've sold through the first 30 prints we're extending the "early bird price"for the next 12 hours, so if you've been thinking about getting one, now's the time to save the postage cost and get the discount. Your  final chance to buy happiness and show your love for yourself and your discerning comic/art/print loving loved ones at a discount. Don't pass this up and have to buy it from that guy for full price later like a chump! 

Also, Pigeon Press (publisher of the Eightball #18 cover print) will be opening its own website very soon with the same offer above, as well as officially offering a very limited book art book from Charles Burns for the first time, so check back!

Halloween Clowestume Contest

There's only 10 days until Halloween... Still trying to pull a costume together for the big night? How about dressing up as your favorite Daniel Clowes character and sending us a video or photo while you're at it? We'll pick our three favorite submissions (if we get that many) and post them here on danielclowes.com, all others entries will be added to our new Eightball Tumbl-o-rama page of fan Clowes inspired fan posts. The grand prize winner will receive the rare SPX 2012 totebag signed be Daniel Clowes (shown below). Bonus points for anyone that can pull off a convincing Blue Bunny, Pogeybait, or Tina(?!) I'm dressing my cat up as Wilson. 

Please send submissions to contest@danielclowes.com or submit your entry and/or any other Clowes inspired posts on our tumblr page. Please include your name, where you are from and the best way to reach you if you are this year's winner.

For some inspiration, we've pulled together some Clowestumes that we've found on the web from over the years, many of which are on the Eightball Tumbl-o-rama.

The grand prize which you can use to go trick-o-treating in style (or use as a bag for your weekly groceries):

...and check back on Wednesday for a special Halloween offer exclusively available here at danielclowes.com

danielclowes.com updated with webshop, a new print, and more!

We just launched some new updates here at danielclowes.com including:

• A new homepage
• A "Comics" gallery page
• A webshop with a brand new print (see below)
• More updates next week... (Still working out some bugs... any website gurus willing to lend a hand? contact us here ) 

...and here's our first danielclowes.com webshop exclusive! A museum quality limited-edition facsimile print of the painting created for the cover of Eightball no. 18. More details in the webshop...

www.danielclowes.com

¿Señor Maravilloso?

I don't know what these articles in Spanish say but they have been popping up all day and hopefully are full of interesting things... Looks like Mister Wonderful has been released in Spain.

--El Pais: Cultura

--¿Quién Vigila al Dr. Ender? 

--Notedetengas

--Rancho Las Voces

--Underbrain

Enid for Sale!!!

Gouache painting of Ghost World's Enid Coleslaw by Daniel Clowes

We get a lot of emails here at danielclowes.com inquiring about Clowes's original art for sale and we saw that this just came up on eBay...

Your only chance to own a piece of Ghost World original art (unless you want to make an offer on the originals for the entire book, as the artist has kept the Ghost World archives together aside from this piece.)

This is also the first and probably the only time a full-color Clowes painting will be available for sale.  

4 days left...  

This is a public service announcement as Daniel Clowes and danielclowes.com are in no way affiliated with the sale of this artwork and posting this just because it's awesome. 

In the News: Articles on the "Modern Cartoonist" Monograph & Exhibition

Jack Black approved.

With the recent release of the monograph and the opening of the exhibition there's been a lot of news… Here's a roundup:

newpapers and other major media:

The Atlantic: Dan Clowes, Author of 'Ghost World,' Has One Rule for Writing Dialogue - An interview by Steven Heller with image gallery.

The Huffington Post: 'Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes' at The Oakland Museum of California - Article on the exhibition with image gallery.

The Huffington Post: The Art of Daniel Clowes - The editor of the monograph shares some background on the project. Includes image gallery.

KQED: Working Process Revealed: Original Art by Cartoonist Daniel Clowes - A great write up on the exhibition by Sarah Hotchkiss. 

The New York Times: Humanity’s Discomfort, Punctured with a Pen – An in-depth feature written by Carol Kino with photos and video.

Oakland Tribune: Oakland Cartoonist Daniel Clowes goes from Underdog to Top Dog - Article on the exhibition with interview. 

Publisher's Weekly: Daniel Clowes on his New Exhibition and Monograph and Lee Marvin – Interview by Casey Burchby.

San Francisco Chronicle: Daniel Clowes' Cartoons Drip with Vengeful Satire - A short article on the exhibition.

Los Angeles Times: Daniel Clowes brings 25 years of faces, fetishes to Meltdown - Interview and image gallery.

magazines: 

Esquire: The List, 6 Things We’re Looking Forward To This Spring  - The book ranks #1, not bad. I hope they liked it.

Hi-Fructose: The Art of Daniel Clowes at the Oakland Museum of California - A short article on the exhibition with a nice set of photos.

Wonderland: Dark Arts - The writer posts scans of her article in the print magazine.

photo: Tamara Palmer

weeklies and other local media:

Amoeba Records: Daniel Clowes's Long Overdue Career Retrospective "Modern Cartoonist" Opens At OMCA This Weekend - Billy Jam writes about the exhibition and book.

The Daily Californian: Daniel Clowes exhibit showcases art of influential graphic novelist - Exhibiton report.

Diablo: Meet: Daniel Clowes - In depth article on exhibition and monograph with interview. Also, Follow-Up Question with Cartoonist Daniel Clowes.

Milwaukee Express: Ghost World Chronicles - Review of the book.

Oakland Art Enthusiast: Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes at the Oakland Museum of California - Exhibition report with photo gallery.

The Oakland Standard: Ink Stud - Random bits including a scrolling timeline of the artist's career.

SF Weekly: Head to Oakland -- Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Launches His First Museum Exhibition - Short article on the exhibition plus photos of the gallery and the artist's studio. 

photo: Christopher King

book and comics industry reviews:

Amazon - Various customer reviews.  

Booklist 

Comic Mix

Comics Bulletin

D&Q bookstore - Nice photo gallery preview of the book. 

Paul Gravett - Scroll about 2/3 down for review.

photo: Shannon Cottrell

blogs:

Book People Blog: Daniel Clowes - The True Mr. Wonderful - Book review.

It’s Nice That: The witty realism and trenchant cool of Daniel Clowes' comics in a survey at OMCA - Article on the exhibition and image gallery. 

Kelly Green Blog: Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes - Exhibition report with a nice set of photos. 

Meltdown: Celebrating Enid Nite with 'Ghost World' Creator Daniel Clowes  - Interviews, a write-up on the book release event, and a great set of photos including Enid cosplay nite as well as links to videos.

Wings Art: The Art of Daniel Clowes; Modern Cartoonist – The Book Review - Book review with nice set of preview photos.

tv, radio & other multimedia:

Audio Book Summaries - An audio book summary read by robot... strange.

BoingBoing.net/Meltdown Comics: Daniel Clowes Modern Cartoonist interview with Mark Frauenfelder at Meltdown Comics - Live Q+A.

Culture File: With the launch of the new book…  - An interesting podcast with words on Clowes's work from Irish cartoonists. 

KTVU: Local Cartoonist Celebrated: At the Oakland Museum of California - Local TV news coverage.  

The New York Times: The Cartoonist's Goal - 4 minute feature with the artist in his studio.

Inside Tip: "The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist" Sold Out

We just heard from the publisher that the 1st printing of The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is officially sold out. I saw some copies over the weekend still lingering in my local book stores and I believe there's still some currently remaining on Amazon and other online booksellers, but there aren't many. So if you haven't picked up a copy yet and want one, now is your chance... Also, I saw that there are some autographed copies available here from Meltdown Comics.

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.