 daniel gillespie clowes (born april 14, 1961) is an american cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter. most of clowes's work first appeared in eightball, a solo anthology comic book series. an eightball issue typically contained several short pieces and a chapter of a longer narrative that was later collected and published as a graphic novel, such as like a velvet glove cast in iron (1993), ghost world (1997), and david boring (2000). clowesâs illustrations have appeared in the new yorker, newsweek, vogue, the village voice, and elsewhere. with filmmaker terry zwigoff, clowes adapted ghost world into a 2001 film and another eightball story into the 2006 film, art school confidential. clowesâs comics, graphic novels, and films have received numerous awards, including a pen award for outstanding work in graphic literature, over a dozen harvey and eisner awards, and an academy award nomination. ==early life and career, 1961-1988== clowes was born in chicago, illinois, to an auto mechanic mother and a furniture craftsman father.meet: daniel clowes - diablo magazine - april 2012 - east bay - california. diablomag.com (2010-02-15). retrieved on 2014-05-12. his mother was jewish and his father was from a "reserved waspish pennsylvania" family, though clowesâs upbringing was not religious.metroactive books | daniel clowes. metroactive.com. retrieved on 2014-05-12.the dark comic arts of daniel clowes â. forward.com. retrieved on 2014-05-12. in 1979, he finished high school at the university of chicago laboratory schools and attended the pratt institute in brooklyn, new york, where he earned a bfa in 1984. right|290px|thumb|daniel clowes's wilson (2010) clowesâs first professional work appeared in 1985 in cracked, and he contributed to the magazine until 1989, working under a variety of pseudonyms, most prominently âstosh gillespie,â and, toward the end of his tenure, under his own name. clowes
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