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Dan Clowes and Seth on WNYC

by Dan
Graphica / October 19, 2011

Cartoonists Daniel Clowes and Seth talked to Leonard Lopate about comics and their new books, The Death-Ray and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists, on WNYC yesterday:

If you are in Toronto this week, Seth and Dan are in conversation at the Harbourfront Centre on Friday as part of the International Festival of Authors:

Daniel Clowes in conversation with Seth
Friday, October 21, 8:00pm, 2011
Brigantine Room, The Harbourfront Centre

First Review for Wilson

by Dan
Graphica / March 09, 2010

The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon, has posted the first review of Daniel Clowes new book Wilson:

Wilson is a sharp strike right to the sweet spot of the brain where great comics are enjoyed; it's a late, great start to a 2010 that felt slightly quiet after the rush to publication by book like Footnotes In Gaza in the waning days of 2009. Like all the great steps forward in Clowes' long career, it mixes a fairly straight-forward reading experience with a skein of smartly-applied formal techniques that tease at what we're seeing, growing in clarity and force until they ultimately transform the book into a powerful meditation on a subject at which the reader of the first few pages could only guess.

Wilson is released in May and Daniel Clowes will be at the Toronto Comics Art Festival May 8th and 9th to launch the book.

Other D+Q artists at TCAF include Sonja Ahlers (The Selves), Marc Bell (Hot Potatoe), Chester Brown (Louis Riel), Keith Jones (Catland Empire),  Amy Lockhart (Dirty Dishes), Seth (George Sprott), and James Sturm (Market Day).

The creative team behind Pop Sandbox's Kenk: A Graphic Portrait will also be in attendance.

UPDATE!

Wilson also received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly last week:

Clowes (Ghost World) takes his particular brand of misanthropic misery to new levels of brilliance in this book, a series of one-page gags that show the divorced and lonely main character repeatedly attempting to engage with life, and then falling back into his hell of pessimism...Clowes offers another beautifully drawn slice of piercing social commentary.

Wilson Preview

by Dan
Graphica / March 03, 2010

As mentioned yesterday Daniel Clowes, author of the comic book series Eightball, the screenwriter of Ghost World and Art School Confidential, and illustrator for the New Yorker (!!!), is going to be at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) in May.

His new book, Wilson, (available in May from Drawn + Quarterly) is the darkly comic story of an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own discursions with a brutal, self-negating sense of humour.

You can read a 5-page (PDF) preview of Wilson here.

TCAF 2010

by Dan
Graphica / January 19, 2010

The good folks at The Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) have just unveiled this amazing poster for the 2010 event (see above). It's designed by the awesome Daniel Clowes – author of Ghost World, David Boring, and Ice Haven – who is also a featured guest and will be debuting his new (much-anticipated) book Wilson, published by Drawn and Quarterly.  

And if that isn't enough reason drag yourself to the Toronto Reference Library on May 8th and 9th, Clowes will be joined at this year's festival by the co-founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies James Sturm, author of America and the forthcoming Market Day (also published by D+Q)!

A full list of exhibitors attending the show can be found here.