Cartoonist Daniel Clowes on His Ambitious New Graphic Novel 'Monica'

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Celebrated cartoonist Daniel Clowes is best known for his acclaimed 1997 graphic novel Ghost World— and the Oscar-nominated movie version that he co-wrote. For his latest work Monica, Clowes employs a mash-up of cartooning styles and genres, from war to romance to horror, to tell the story of the title character…and the mother who abandoned her. The Oakland-based author has said the book is in part an effort to understand and accept his own mother, who he lost while working on it. He’ll join us to talk about the book, and his career. Guests: Daniel Clowes, cartoonist; screenwriter - His latest graphic novel is "Monica" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.4	If you've ever read a graphic novel, or if you're like my kids, and you only From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:11.6	If you've ever read a graphic novel, or if you're like my kids and you only want to read graphic novels, you owe a debt of gratitude to our guest this morning, Oakland's Daniel Klaus.
1:20.6	With his groundbreaking works like Ghost World, Klaus brought cartooning into a new realm, and a whole generation or two of artists have
1:28.7	looked to and learned from his work. With his latest book, Monica, Klaus shows off a mastery of
1:34.4	genre after genre, bending them to his main story and reminding us of the pulp ancestry of
1:40.6	his art and the depth of his reckoning with the cruelties of the world.
1:46.5	He's coming up next after this news.
2:04.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal, and I'm delighted to be joined here in Studio B by Oakland legend and groundbreaking cartoonist Daniel Klaus. His previous graphic novels
2:11.1	include Ghost World and Patience, and he's got a new and highly anticipated book, Monica, his first in seven years.
2:20.3	It comes out next week from Fantagraphics.
2:23.4	Welcome, Dan.
2:24.6	Hello?
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