Documents 30. Daniel Clowes

This video is a recording of edition 30 of Documents, a public programme which explores the relationships between art and publishing in artistic practices. Held on 4 November 2024, Make America Weird Again saw American cartoonist Daniel Clowes (Chicago, 1961), a key point of reference in contemporary comic books, engage in dialogue with writer Rubén Lardín, following an introduction by Chema González. Fusing genres as diverse as the thriller, noir, pulp and science fiction and endowing them with a surreal atmosphere, Clowes has shaped a body of work that is expansive and wholly original. He began his career with different magazines in the late 1980s and gained acclaim with the serial publication Eightball, a solo project he worked on from 1989 to 2004, followed by other salient titles such as Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, Mister Wonderful, Wilson, Patience and Monica — worlds inhabited by eccentric characters and misfits in a critical and disturbing vision of the USA.