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

Join us at Atomic Books and SPX 2012 this week...

Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura will be in the DC area this week to promote The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist. Here are the details:

Daniel Clowes and Alvin Buenaventura signing the monograph at: 
Atomic Books
Baltimore, MD
Friday, September 14
5:00PM-7:00PM
(sign up for facebook event listing here)

SPX 2012
Bethesda, MD
September 15 & 16

Daniel Clowes is a special guest of SPX 2012. He'll be signing at his various publishers tables as well as the SPX show table and will take part in several panels of the weekend's programming. His art was used for this year's tote bag, available during the weekend from SPX (shown above).


SIGNINGS:


Saturday
1:00PM- 2:00PM at Fantagraphics table
3:00PM - 4:15PM (w/ Alvin Buenaventura) at SPX table

Sunday
12:30PM - 1:30PM (w/ Alvin Buenaventura) at SPX table
3:45PM - 4:45PM at D&Q table

PANELS:

Saturday 12:00PM-1:00PM - Crockett Johnson - White Flint Auditorium

4:30PM - 5:30PM - Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist (w/Ken Parille and Alvin Buenaventura) - White Oak Room 

Sunday 2:30PM - 3:30PM - Life After Alternative Comics - White Oak Room

For more details on programming go here.

Currently on Newsstands (the physical, non-app kind.)

There are interviews with Daniel Clowes featured in current issues of Elephant, Boom and Juxtapoz magazines this month.

Double take.

Hmmm, this is something...

Revisiting the "Comics: Philosophy and Practice" conference in May, 2012

photo: Jason Smith

Here's a link to a nice photo set and video from the University of Chicago from the Comics: Philosophy & Practice conference in May. 

Video from University of Chicago

my souvenir.

It was an unforgettable weekend with so many of comics heavies, all gathered in one place for a weekend to talk comics. With no obligations to promote or sell books, the environment and programming were ideal for these often isolated, hard-at-work cartoonists to unwind, commiserate and celebrate, share inspired words, and all with lots of laffs. Lynda Barry is so damn funny (and brilliant, if you ever get a chance to take a workshop with her she'll take you down deep to remember what it's all about...) Robert Crumb went into impromptu song on stage, Carol Tyler and Aline Kominski-Crumb kept limber with their asana practice in the green room... Daniel Clowes shared the 'greatest idea for a comic' that came to him in a dream... At the end of one of the long days, a large group found themselves on a schoolbus (probably many for the first time since grade school) in a truly surreal and awkward commute to be delivered to the Ware's home for dinner... and again the talks, Ben Katchor's presentation... so much... The epitome of a professional conference--very human, very real, life affirming, yeah, historical... Also in attendence Gary Leib, Art Spiegelman, Justin Green, Gary Panter, Phoebe Gloeckner, Ivan Brunetti, Seth, Alison Bechdel, Ben Katchor, Joe Sacco, Francoise Mouly, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes. Whew! Shit, did I forget anyone? Thanks to Hillary Chute for making this happen. -Alvin Buenaventura

Chris Ware joins Daniel Clowes for a talk and signing this Friday at the OMCA

In a talk moderated by guest curator Susan Miller and Senior Curator of Art René de Guzman, Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware will be speaking at OMCA's James Moore Theater on Friday, July 27, 2012 from 7-8:30pm. Seating will be limited and is expected to fill up quickly. Come early to see the Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes exhibiton at the OMCA which closes in just a few weeks on August 12.

Tickets for the panel discussion are included with Museum admission. Seating in OMCA's James Moore Theater is limited, and is available on a first-come, first served basis the day of the event. The Museum encourages you to come early to stand in line. Doors open at 6:30 pm. 

For more info, go here.

After the talk until about 10pm, Clowes and Ware will be signing their books in the OMCA bookstore along with Alvin Buenaventura signing The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, a monograph that accompanies the exhibition that's currently up at the museum. FYI: We hear that due to the expected turnout the OMCA bookstore will be limiting autographs to books bought in the store that night . The good news is that the OMCA bookstore will also be giving away (yes, free) a special unique promo book that is a "reverse preview" of Ware's upcoming Building Stories, to each customer purchasing one of the cartoonist's books that night, while supplies last. (btw, the BS preview is incredible and will not be included actual book in this format.)

Lastly, I'll have a new, third batch of 100 Mister Jones pins in orange, made just for this event to give out to those who want them (again, while supplies last). Thanks to Niem 'Buttoneers' 
Tran for whipping these up.

Bizarro Clowes's Q+A with "the Guardian"

It doesn’t take much to alter the tone or meaning of someone’s words in an interview with some editing. Here are a few examples from the Guardian’s recent Q+A with Daniel Clowes before and after:


What would your super power be?


ANSWER: 
As a teenager I remember wishing I had the powers of Plastic Man so that I could stretch my arm downstairs to retrieve junk food from the kitchen without having to get up from my chair.


PRINTED: 
The powers of Plastic Man. 




Which words or phrases do you most overuse?


ANSWER: 
Once, in a review of the Ghost World movie, the critic John Simon quoted extensively from a rambling interview of mine to point out what an inarticulate idiot I was. I believe I used the word “really” something like 9 times in the course of two sentences.


PRINTED: 
"Really."




If you could go back in time, where would you go?


ANSWER:
I’d like to think I’d go kill Hitler or verify the divinity of Christ, but really I’d like to see what my neighbourhood was like when my house was built in 1912. Or perhaps to hang out in Bodega Bay while Hitchcock was shooting The Birds.


PRINTED: 
I like to think I'd go kill Hitler.