Talk:Daniel Clowes

Added images and Movie Career

hey, i'm sort of a newbie around here. i added the movie career subsection and put up 4 images. i did my best to read the image use policy (it's long and not exactly straightforward) and i hope all these images are okay to use. i think it makes the article look a lot better. i feel like these were big edits and i'm wondering what other people think of them.

thanks all. -Sparseface 12:30, 05 December 2005

chick tracts

I remember reading somewhere that he bought a bunch of Chick tracts and read them one night, and "realised he was going straight to hell". Could someone confirm that story?

[jack chick is] "praised by underground comic artists like Daniel Clowes and Robert Crumb. When Clowes, whose screenplay for the indie film Ghost World received an Academy Award nomination, was in college, he read 80 Chick tracts in one sitting. "By the end of the night I was convinced I was going to hell," he says." http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1346/is_5_48/ai_101173128

Does anyone know if he actually converted to fundamentalist christianity? --Havermayer Of course he wasn't converted, Clowes is known such strips as '"Why I Hate Christians."

21:56, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

No Original Research

The musings about Clowes' work under "Cultural Context" are nice, but unless someone can show that these views have been published elsewhere -- and provide references -- this is in violation of Wikipedia's policy on original research. 69.118.25.126 04:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Syntax

Under the portion titled "AWARDS" the opening sentence reads, "His work in comics has won him a good deal of recognition . . . ". I'm not an expert, but "a good deal" doesn not seem like encyclopedi language. Anyone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pirchlogan (talk • contribs) 17:54, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

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Early career at Cracked

Why isn't there more about his years at Cracked? That was the first venue where his work hit a large audience (in my case, years later when I discovered the "Uggly Family" guy was doing comics, I had to get them), and it was in the Cracked bullpen where he met future collaborators/alternative comic stars Peter Bagge and Rick Altergott. So why not more on this.

BTW, this info was through a discussion with him at a signing, so maybe there just isn't much on it in print. But I think just mentioning the work he did there and who he worked with is important to note. Artemisstrong (talk) 17:31, 2 August 2010 (UTC)