While his work has been championed by “The New Yorker” and The Criterion Collection, Clowes’ early comic work is for the most part inaccessible to the general public simply because many of his stories were serialized in an anthology format, in his personal triannual “Eightball” magazine. If one were to make a list of what might be called “secret architects of pop culture”-figures whose names are unknown to most but their work, as well as what they influenced instantly recognizable-the architect of Generation X would almost certainly be Daniel Clowes, screenwriter, designer, and most importantly, comics artist.įrom his time designing covers for bands on legendary indie label Sub Pop to writing the screenplay for “Ghost World” alongside Terry Zwigoff, Clowes is-despite his reluctance to be called such-a key figure in the introduction of irony and sarcasm to mainstream culture, as well as a fantastic writer and artist.
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