Clowes moved effortlessly among genres such as autobiography, gag cartoon, and rant as well as fairy tale, short fiction, and cultural satire. A typical issue included five to seven short stories drawn in diverse styles, just as each Mad issue contained work by several artists with distinctive styles. And the proof was Eightball, perhaps the most important American alternative comic to emerge from the twentieth century.ĭuring its first decade, Eightball was a Mad magazine-esque free-wheeling anthology. But I also had the theory that if it was all by the same artist, and the artist was trying to be truthful or willing to let his unconscious or his intuition decide what was going to happen on the pages, then it would all kind of come together in a cohesive way. different styles - if you combined the serious stuff with humorous stuff - that the result would be kind of discordant. “The thought was,” Clowes recently observed,
In the ’80s, prevailing wisdom held that a series needed to focus on a single character and maintain a consistent look. Freed from churning out short comedic adventures featuring the same cast of characters, he’ll finally be able to develop a more personal and wide-ranging approach to comics. Daniel Clowes’s Lloyd Llewellyn series has come to an abrupt end, canceled by the publisher. Features Daniel Clowes and Eightball, 1988-1998: Highlights, Mysteries, and Fun-Facts
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