Daniel Clowes

The Profile

Daniel Clowes (born April 14, 1961) is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist and screenwriter, creator of the comic series Eightball and works such as Ghost World and Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.

Created the comic book series Eightball (serialized 1989–2004). Ghost World was adapted as a feature film (screenplay by Clowes and Terry Zwigoff).

The available review examines Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, serialized in Eightball, highlighting its paranoia, grotesque imagery and Lynch/Auster resonances. The reviewer calls it disturbing, erotic, and uncompromising. Recommended for readers who seek morbid, surreal graphic fiction.