Daniel Clowes’ Mister Wonderful
posted by Mojo Marshall
Daniel Gillespie Clowes (born April 14, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Academy Award-nominated American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books. Most of Clowes’ work appears first in his ongoing anthology Eightball (1989-present), a collection of self-contained narratives and serialized graphic novels. Several of these narratives have been collected published separately as graphic novels, most notably Ghost World. With filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, Clowes adapted Ghost World into the 2000 film of the same name, and also adapted another Eightball story into the 2006 film Art School Confidential. Before Eightball, Clowes worked on comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn, which in the later issues stronger foreshadowed some of the social criticism of his work with Eightball.
Nominated for an Eisner Award (“Best Short Story”) yesterday, Daniel Clowes’ 20-page comic Mister Wonderful is available to read in PDF format on the New York Times‘ website. The story is about a desperate middle-aged man on his first (blind) date in six years.
(The second Chapter 18 on the list is actually Chapter 19 and Chapter 20 can be read by clicking on the “Mister Wonderful: Conclusion” link.)
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 5:19 am