LitQuake, Oct 9: An Evening with Daniel Clowes and Dave Eggers

Two Guys from Chicago: An Evening with Daniel Clowes and Dave Eggers

October 9, 2012 - 8:00 PM

Z Space
450 Florida St.

$15
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Litquake welcomes the creative minds of Daniel Clowes and Dave Eggers, who between them have earned the titles of publisher, editor, journalist, cartoonist, philanthropist, educator, illustrator, author, screenwriter, and graphic novelist, as well as former resident of Chicago, The Windy City. Tonight the two discuss the vagaries of the creative process, their favorite comics, books, and movies, anything else that might come up, and which Chicago hot dog is better: Vienna Beef or Red Hot Chicago.

There will be a signing with both authors following the event where their recent books will be for sale as well as this new Eightball print offered exclusively at signings like this or direct from the danielclowes.com webshop.

SPX exclusives...

Daniel Clowes and I will  be in the DC area Friday-Saturday, look here for details.

Before I jump on a plane I wanted to post that we'll have a new Eightball print with us for sale at the signings for Atomic Books and SPX. It is of the above image. We just printed up 10 at a slightly smaller size (and price) than this one, but it's of the same high-quality. This edition of 10 prints was made exclusively for SPX and it will be the only chance to see it in person. First come first serve, $350.

And I'll have a new batch of Mister Jones pins (this time manila envelope colored) that we had made up for the signing for The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist by Niem Tran of Buttoneers to give away at the signings. While supplies last.

-Alvin Buenaventura

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