Comic creator extraordinaire Daniel Clowes’ extraordinary body of work in alternative comics is hitting a new plateau of visibility and public awareness. Museum-goers and film enthusiasts alike can marvel at Clowes’ traveling career retrospective at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) and the upcoming production of Oscar-winning film director Alexander Payne’s screen adaptation of his graphic novel Wilson
Here’s a recent article in Comic Book Resources looking at Clowes’ creative process and sources of inspiration, and how the artist balances the rigors of creating a comic from scratch with the different set of challenges that are manifested in the process of writing a screenplay based on his own work.
Of course, Clowes is among the cross section of brilliant comic creators and artists featured in Comics Are Everywhere. I can’t wait to see what Payne and Clowes come up with in the film version of Wilson. – Neil Kendricks