Daniel Clowes

Winner of the 2011 PEN Literary Prize for Graphic Literature

"[Clowes' comics have] the perfect interplay between his tightly controlled artwork, the empty rage... simmering just beneath it, and just below that, a strangely simple yearning for simple and solid things, like, say, love… There's poetry in every panel." – Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review

"The great thing about Dan's work is that his pictures are brilliant, but if he wanted to become just a writer, he could do it." – Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

"It's not too much to say that Clowes' best work has the emotional resonance and mordant humor of literary satires such as Portnoy's Complaint and The Catcher in the Rye." – Marc Weingarten, San Francisco Magazine

"Clowes has explored the tedium and mystery of contemporary American life with more wit and insight than most novelists or filmmakers." – A.O. Scott, The New York Times

"Clowes is the country’s premier underground cartoonist." – Newsweek

See also:
• Official Website
• Artist Bio
• Blog posts relating to Daniel Clowes on FLOG! The Fantagraphics Blog