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Daniel Clowes got his start in comics contributing to Cracked magazine in 1985 and shortly after Fantagraphics published his Lloyd Llewellyn series.  Since then he's become an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and has received Eisner, Harvey and Ignatz awards for comics and the PEN Award for literature.  His most famous and acclaimed work has appeared in the[...]

but coming from Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle even sooner. Where on Saturday 18th April from 6pm-8pm, he will be signing copies of The Complete Eightball containing issues #1-18 of the incredibly influential comic book… Maybe you could ask him what that 2016 project is all about.   Coming from Fantagraphics Books soon…[...]

Since 1989, Eightball has been consistently grouped with the best-selling independently authored comics Now, we can have some really fine editions collecting them too From Fantagraphic Books comes The Complete Eightball Special Edition, in a 2-volume box set which will contain all of the comics along with a glicee print created by Daniel Clowes[...]

 Our usual disclaimer about private and closely-held sales in the often-secretive art collecting world applies, but by my count this is the second highest price paid at public auction for a Silver Age DC cover, after the November 2012 sale of the cover of Flash #137 by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson for $167,300. Moving on[...]

That's right, #264 falls smack in-between the two extant trades, meaning that even if Marvel goes back to Nocenti's run, this one's likely to be left out in the cold. DC One Million– There's a superb extant trade that collects the most 10 essential bits of the series, but die-hard Morrison fans would love an Omnibus[...]