Daniel Gillespie Clowes (born April 14, 1961) is an American
cartoonist,
illustrator, and
screenwriter. Most of Clowes's work first appeared in
Eightball, a solo anthology comic book series. An
Eightball issue typically contained several short pieces and a chapter of a longer narrative that was later collected and published as a graphic novel, such as
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (1993),
Ghost World (1997), and
David Boring (2000). Clowes’s illustrations have appeared in
The New Yorker,
Newsweek,
Vogue,
The Village Voice, and elsewhere. With filmmaker
Terry Zwigoff, Clowes adapted
Ghost World into
a 2001 film and another
Eightball story into the 2006 film,
Art School Confidential. Clowes’s comics, graphic novels, and films have received numerous awards, including a Pen Award for Outstanding Work in Graphic Literature, over a dozen Harvey and Eisner Awards, and an Academy Award nomination.