ANGOULEME, France – American cartoonist Daniel Clowes picked up the award for Best Comic Book at this year’s Angouleme comics festival in France, considered the world’s most prestigious ...

For a cartoonist who found his niche in the 1980s alternative comics space with a darkly zany vocabulary, Clowes has managed to land squarely within mainstream acceptance. He’s been showered ...

Daniel Clowes sets the stage for his latest graphic novel, Monica, by jumping right into the deep end of history’s primordial slop — protozoa, dinosaurs, pharaohs, Christ, plague, Columbus ...

“In a way, Penny had given me the best possible life,” says the eponymous narrator of “Monica,” Daniel Clowes’s first graphic novel in more than seven years. “She’d allowed me to ...

For the cover of the Money Issue, the cartoonist Daniel Clowes evokes the lavish, concentrated wealth that governs our world. The true billionaires, rich beyond comprehension, hardly need to ...

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Help support the DJs, journalists, and staff of the station you love. Daniel Clowes has a knack for examining near-universal human interactions. His new book, “Monica” trains that focus on a ...

Daniel Clowes has been writing and drawing comics professionally for almost 40 years, turning out some of the most acclaimed and influential graphic novels the medium has produced — including ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes about his much anticipated newest work, Monica. Graphic novelist Daniel Clowes makes his otherworldly return in 'Monica' JUANA ...

Daniel Clowes is a giant in the world of comics and graphic novels. From his "Lloyd Llewellyn" cartoon to his graphic novel and eventual movie "Ghost World," Clowes' work is both beloved and revered.