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"content": "\u003cp>Lots of people are fuming about \u003cem>Nina\u003c/em>, an upcoming biopic about legendary singer Nina Simone. According to its critics, the filmmakers butcher important parts of Simone's biography (in part, by attributing much of her success to the men in her life), but that their larger sin was casting actress Zoe Saldana, who plays the lead role with the help of skin-darkening makeup and a prosthetic nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many argue that casting the lighter skinned Afro-Latina actress, rather than someone who better resembled Simone, was an attempt to make the film more marketable instead of staying true to the singer and the life that inspired her art. The makeup and prosthetic nose, they also charge, were sloppy and poorly executed. In one of the more gentle critiques, singer India.Arie called the casting move \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2016/03/india_arie_calls_zoe_saldana_as_nina_simone_tone_deaf_casting.html?utm_content=bufferf2a7d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">tone deaf\u003c/a>.\" Others went with \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Amaku_Dancer/status/708076918315347968\">disrespectful\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SonikMudi/status/705141228250206209\">deplorable\u003c/a>,\" and \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrjBmg_/status/708964425202601984\">embarrassing\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21446\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21446\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-21446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"In this composite image, a comparison has been made between Nina Simone and actress Zoe Saldana.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this composite image, a comparison has been made between Nina Simone and actress Zoe Saldana. (Photo: David Redfern/Frazer Harrison/Redferns/Getty Images for Relativity Media)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Buzzfeed\u003c/em> rounded up some of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/essencegant/zoe-saldana-is-playing-nina-simone?bftw&utm_term=.eimd06qjw#.jcQ9eRyW3\">Twitter reactions\u003c/a> to the film's trailer. \u003cem>Jezebel\u003c/em> highlighted the \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/meet-the-team-behind-nina-1762401564\">overwhelmingly white team\u003c/a> behind the production. \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine talked to \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4246449/nina-simone-zoe-saldana/\">Simone's daughter, Lisa Simone Kelly,\u003c/a> about the movie's narrative flaws, and the Guardian chronicled some of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/12/race-in-movies-row-nina-simone-oscars-hadley-freeman?CMP=twt_gu\">offensive backlash\u003c/a> to people's complaints about the film. \u003cem>Vox\u003c/em> also \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2016/3/4/11161980/nina-simone-saldana\">voxsplained the whole controversy\u003c/a>, from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165346202/controversial-casting-for-a-nina-simone-biopic\">pre-production\u003c/a> to the release of the first trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than any other, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/nina-simone-face/472107/\">Ta-Nehisi Coates' recently published essay\u003c/a> seems to capture the full emotional depth of all this frustration. He suggests this wasn't just another questionable casting choice involving a person of color in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/01/28/464691819/let-twitter-be-your-guide-through-this-michael-jackson-casting-mess\">long line\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://screenrant.com/worst-examples-whitewashing-movies/?view=all\">such casting choices\u003c/a>. To explain, Coates gets personal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"When I was kid, I knew what the worst parts of me were—my hair and my mouth. My hair was nappy. My lips were big. Nearly every kid around me knew something similar of themselves because nearly every one of us had some sort of physical defect—dark skin, nappy hair, broad nose, full lips—that opened us up to ridicule from one another. That each of these \"defects\" were representative of all the Africa that ran through us was never lost on anyone. \"Africa\" was an insult—African bush-boogie, African bootie-scratcher etc. Ethiopian famine jokes were all the rage back then...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...[Nina] Simone was in possession of nearly every feature that we denigrated as children. And yet somehow she willed herself into a goddess.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Coates goes on to explain how Simone's appearance, as well as her music, helped him view his childhood musings on race in a larger context:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Simone is something more than a female Bob Marley. It is not simply the voice: It is the world that made that voice, all the hurt and pain of denigration, forged into something otherworldly. That voice, inevitably, calls us to look at Nina Simone's face, and for a brief moment, understand that the hate we felt, that the mockery we dispensed, was unnatural, was the fruit of conjurations and the shadow of plunder. We look at Nina Simone's face and the lie is exposed and we are shamed. We look at Nina Simone's face and a terrible truth comes into view—there was nothing wrong with her. But there is something deeply wrong with us.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Finally, Coates takes us through what all of this means, both for the potential audience and \u003cem>Nina\u003c/em>'s creators:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It's here that the term 'appropriation' bears some usage. We're not talking about someone inspired by the deeper lessons of Simone's life and her music. We are talking about people who think it's fine to profit off her music while heedlessly contributing to the kind of pain that brought that music into being. To acknowledge that pain, to consider it in casting, would be inconvenient—as anti-racist action always is. It would mean giving an opportunity to someone who's actively experienced the kind of pain that plagued Simone. That would doubtlessly mean a diminished chance at garnering funds for such a film. And that, in turn, would court years of delays and the possibility of the film never coming into being. That would be unfortunate—but less so for Nina Simone than for the agents who feel themselves entitled to profit her story.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The whole piece is worth reading and thinking about. You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/nina-simone-face/472107/\">check it out\u003c/a> over at \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2016 NPR. 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In one of the more gentle critiques, singer India.Arie called the casting move \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_grapevine/2016/03/india_arie_calls_zoe_saldana_as_nina_simone_tone_deaf_casting.html?utm_content=bufferf2a7d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">tone deaf\u003c/a>.\" Others went with \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Amaku_Dancer/status/708076918315347968\">disrespectful\u003c/a>,\" \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SonikMudi/status/705141228250206209\">deplorable\u003c/a>,\" and \"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MrjBmg_/status/708964425202601984\">embarrassing\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21446\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21446\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-21446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"In this composite image, a comparison has been made between Nina Simone and actress Zoe Saldana.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/gettyimages-152092748-270a7688786447e9bd0039f1e23b09cf9ba221e5-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this composite image, a comparison has been made between Nina Simone and actress Zoe Saldana. (Photo: David Redfern/Frazer Harrison/Redferns/Getty Images for Relativity Media)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Buzzfeed\u003c/em> rounded up some of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/essencegant/zoe-saldana-is-playing-nina-simone?bftw&utm_term=.eimd06qjw#.jcQ9eRyW3\">Twitter reactions\u003c/a> to the film's trailer. \u003cem>Jezebel\u003c/em> highlighted the \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/meet-the-team-behind-nina-1762401564\">overwhelmingly white team\u003c/a> behind the production. \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine talked to \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4246449/nina-simone-zoe-saldana/\">Simone's daughter, Lisa Simone Kelly,\u003c/a> about the movie's narrative flaws, and the Guardian chronicled some of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/12/race-in-movies-row-nina-simone-oscars-hadley-freeman?CMP=twt_gu\">offensive backlash\u003c/a> to people's complaints about the film. \u003cem>Vox\u003c/em> also \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2016/3/4/11161980/nina-simone-saldana\">voxsplained the whole controversy\u003c/a>, from \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165346202/controversial-casting-for-a-nina-simone-biopic\">pre-production\u003c/a> to the release of the first trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than any other, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/nina-simone-face/472107/\">Ta-Nehisi Coates' recently published essay\u003c/a> seems to capture the full emotional depth of all this frustration. He suggests this wasn't just another questionable casting choice involving a person of color in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/01/28/464691819/let-twitter-be-your-guide-through-this-michael-jackson-casting-mess\">long line\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://screenrant.com/worst-examples-whitewashing-movies/?view=all\">such casting choices\u003c/a>. To explain, Coates gets personal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"When I was kid, I knew what the worst parts of me were—my hair and my mouth. My hair was nappy. My lips were big. Nearly every kid around me knew something similar of themselves because nearly every one of us had some sort of physical defect—dark skin, nappy hair, broad nose, full lips—that opened us up to ridicule from one another. That each of these \"defects\" were representative of all the Africa that ran through us was never lost on anyone. \"Africa\" was an insult—African bush-boogie, African bootie-scratcher etc. Ethiopian famine jokes were all the rage back then...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...[Nina] Simone was in possession of nearly every feature that we denigrated as children. And yet somehow she willed herself into a goddess.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Coates goes on to explain how Simone's appearance, as well as her music, helped him view his childhood musings on race in a larger context:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Simone is something more than a female Bob Marley. It is not simply the voice: It is the world that made that voice, all the hurt and pain of denigration, forged into something otherworldly. That voice, inevitably, calls us to look at Nina Simone's face, and for a brief moment, understand that the hate we felt, that the mockery we dispensed, was unnatural, was the fruit of conjurations and the shadow of plunder. We look at Nina Simone's face and the lie is exposed and we are shamed. We look at Nina Simone's face and a terrible truth comes into view—there was nothing wrong with her. But there is something deeply wrong with us.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Finally, Coates takes us through what all of this means, both for the potential audience and \u003cem>Nina\u003c/em>'s creators:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It's here that the term 'appropriation' bears some usage. We're not talking about someone inspired by the deeper lessons of Simone's life and her music. We are talking about people who think it's fine to profit off her music while heedlessly contributing to the kind of pain that brought that music into being. To acknowledge that pain, to consider it in casting, would be inconvenient—as anti-racist action always is. It would mean giving an opportunity to someone who's actively experienced the kind of pain that plagued Simone. That would doubtlessly mean a diminished chance at garnering funds for such a film. And that, in turn, would court years of delays and the possibility of the film never coming into being. That would be unfortunate—but less so for Nina Simone than for the agents who feel themselves entitled to profit her story.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The whole piece is worth reading and thinking about. You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/nina-simone-face/472107/\">check it out\u003c/a> over at \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's a cliché because it's true: Life can change in an instant. Often, of course, we can’t tell which choices will shape our lives until they’re years away in the rearview mirror, given weight and color by the present. So it’s oddly fitting, perhaps, that \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fantagraphics.com/patience/\" target=\"_blank\">Patience\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Daniel Clowes’ first book in a half-decade -- the renowned graphic novelist’s most ambitious, reflective, weighty work yet, and one that took him five long years to birth -- is obsessed with events that take place in a matter of seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clowes was one of the first comics artists to propel the graphic novel into the mainstream literary world. 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But his hallmark remains: an uncanny ability to imbue a seemingly dull interaction between characters with a level of nuance that leaps off the page, not in spite of but because of its quietude: the simple melancholia and hilarity of everyday existence, the hopes and pitfalls of loners and weirdos, are rendered with as much urgency as any bank robbery or high-speed car chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-21317 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc3.jpg\" alt=\"dc3\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc3.jpg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc3-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel from 'Patience.'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a departure from much of his earlier work, \u003cem>Patience\u003c/em> (Fantagraphics; $29.99) sees Clowes blending literal action -- ray-gun fight scenes, seedy gambling dens straight out of\u003cem> Blade Runner\u003c/em> -- with his usual subtle human drama. Over the course of 180 bright, color-saturated pages, the reader follows a couple (the titular Patience and her husband Jack) on a surrealist, time-traveling adventure; Jack fixates on the past, attempting to change the course of history in order to ensure his family’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clowes, who lives in Piedmont with his own wife and son, made some time to chat about the book ahead of \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-daniel-clowes\" target=\"_blank\">his appearance on Wednesday, March 23 at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco\u003c/a>. (This interview has been edited and condensed, if you can believe that.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED Pop: One thing I’ve always admired about your earlier work is the degree to which you experimented and changed styles between comics, even within a single issue of \u003cem>Eightball\u003c/em>. So I’m curious what it felt like to work on one cohesive project for five long years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daniel Clowes:\u003c/strong> You put the proper gravitas in that question. It’s funny, because I know the book looks fairly uniform, but I’ve gotten to the point where there are all these subtle shifts in style that made it seem jarringly different from page to page, and that’s in no way perceptible to anybody but me. But that was enough to keep me from feeling like I was stuck in a method I got bored with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also somehow I knew that this was going to be a book that was all about the coloring. In the past, all my color books started out, like, ‘This could still be black and white, or maybe just one color,’ and then I morphed into color mode by the end. In this one, I knew what I wanted it to look like. I think the color brings it all together and you don’t really notice the slight stylistic shifts from scene to scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[In terms of the narrative], carrying all the initial inspirations all the way through over five years really was that feeling of carrying a lit match across a windstorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 538px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-21314\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc1.jpg\" alt=\"Panels from 'Patience'\" width=\"538\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc1.jpg 538w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc1-400x360.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panels from 'Patience.'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With some of the action sequences, I was thinking about in \u003cem>Calvin and Hobbes\u003c/em>, when Bill Watterson would use Spaceman Spiff to let out that adventure-action comic strip he always wanted to do. Are these images things you’d been wanting to draw for years, and this was your chance?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few things I’ve wanted to [do] for a long time -- not necessarily specific images in my head that I wanted to get on paper. But I love that idea of seeing a little bit of the workings of the universe behind the visual reality that we all see every day. I’ve always felt that presence, that there’s some infinite mathematical void that’s in the wings behind the stage, behind that play that we’re looking at as our reality, and thought about how to best depict that. There are [other] comic artists that allude to that -- mostly guys from the '50s, post-war guys with PTSD, looking at the world in a bigger way than their stories would indicate. I was always very inspired by that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The time-travel stuff, the ability to go back and change a specific moment in the past -- did that come out of anything in particular for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, the notion of examining your past very carefully ... the last 10 years or so, I’ve had a whole bunch of retrospective projects, which are the kind of thing I normally just run from. I really don’t want to go back in time. But I got roped into doing a museum show of my work, and that led to a monograph, and then at the same time I had agreed to do a reprint of all the early \u003cem>Eightball\u003c/em>s, and that box set. It was all stuff that I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll let somebody else do that and I’ll work on my own thing.’ Then, of course, I got really drawn into the whole process and found myself in this odd dialogue with this younger version of myself. And in some ways it seemed like no time had passed at all, and in other ways it seemed like I was talking to a different person, in a different era, and it wasn’t myself at all. I didn’t even recognize myself in some of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-21272 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_o380a6psMB1s2tgut_500.jpg\" alt=\"Patience, in 'Patience.'\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_o380a6psMB1s2tgut_500.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_o380a6psMB1s2tgut_500-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patience, in 'Patience.' \u003ccite>(Fantagraphics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I heard that \u003ca href=\"http://museumca.org/exhibit/modern-cartoonist-art-daniel-clowes\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Museum exhibition\u003c/a> was great, but it also sounds a little bit like being eulogized before your time?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It absolutely felt like that. It was like attending your own funeral and hearing what people say about you -- which was all very nice. There’s a movie called \u003cem>Scarlet Street\u003c/em> that opens with Edward G. Robinson going to his retirement dinner, and he’s presented with this gold watch and everybody pats him on his back and then that’s it. He leaves and he has no friends or life after that. It really did feel like that. It was weird. I disassociated myself from it and started to just think of myself as a collector of Daniel Clowes artwork after a while, because you’d see name tags on things like they were on loan from a collector -- but it was ‘on loan from Daniel and Erica Clowes.’ I would be so proud. Like, wow, I have artwork loaned to a museum!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there works you specifically noticed that, if you could go back, you would change?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time in my life I most thought about going back and changing things was when I was much younger. Like, “I wish I could go back to Thursday and not have said that stupid thing in class.” You know, the whole “If I could only do it again, I’d have the perfect comeback for that guy.” Stuff like that. And then as you get older, you have so many of those moments you couldn’t really pick one. It would be your entire life. [Laughs.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also sometimes think, when I look at my old comics, “If I could redo that now, I could make it really perfect.” But that would be such a terrible idea. A, it would make it worse, no matter how well you drew it or wrote it, and B, it would crush your life as it is now. It’s just not a good way to think. The more I got into the story, the more I realized that I have no desire whatsoever to do that, and I embraced the way that events unfold in a way you can’t really imagine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-800x963.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Clowes, a self-portrait.\" width=\"800\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-800x963.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-400x482.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-768x925.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-1440x1734.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-1920x2312.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-1180x1421.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-960x1156.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Clowes, a self-portrait. \u003ccite>(Fantagraphics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With a lot of artistic depictions of dystopian futures, there’s usually a nostalgia about the past, a romanticism about decades gone by, and I really didn’t get that in \u003cem>Patience\u003c/em>. It seems like Jack is pissed off to be in the '70s or whatever. “This sh*t, really?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Laughs.] Yeah, if somebody sent me back to 1985, I would just be \u003cem>so sad\u003c/em>. It’s funny, because I really love certain past aesthetics, and I’ve always felt that the way history just steamrolls the past, especially art history -- the way there’ll be a perfectly good method of painting or writing or something and then the next thing will come along and destroy that. I’ve always been interested in going back and finding these old modes that were cast aside too soon and seeing what there is in them and combining them with other modes, things like that. I’m certainly not someone who’s 100 percent forward-minded. But I don’t have any desire to go back to any other time. I think as crazy and chaotic as things are, things are always slightly improving in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That’s a message I think a lot of people could use right now.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I didn’t really want to depict the future as a dystopia. I think people always have the feeling that they’re in the end times and everything is crumbling. I don’t know that that’s necessarily true. I feel like it’s just getting more fragmented and hard to grasp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21319\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/Patience-24-650x371.jpg\" alt=\"Patience-24-650x371\" width=\"650\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/Patience-24-650x371.jpg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/Patience-24-650x371-400x228.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Since you mentioned the, uh, end times: there’s a kind of blowhard evangelical political TV personality in the book. Was that based on anyone in particular?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just like that kind of American demagogue character. Of course, now it seems really prescient that we’ve got actual people like that vying for the White House. At the time, I was writing it and I thought ‘What would it take for a guy like this to become president?’ I thought that seemed really far-fetched, and now it seems much less so. But yeah, he came out of guys like Glenn Beck and people like that, who are clearly not speaking truthfully to their audience, projecting an image that’s not necessarily true in any way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’ve read that you didn’t show this to anyone as you worked?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did not let anybody read it. People come in and out of my studio all the time, and pages are out; pages are there. People who saw it had no idea what was going on, and I think a lot of them thought I had lost my mind when they were just looking at the art. My wife wants to read it all at once -- which, I would never want her to be reading something and go “hmm.” That would throw me off so intensely. Just a little “what?” And then that’s all I would think about. Zero response is the best. Then when it’s done, I’m more than happy to hear anything, negative or positive, but not while I’m in the throes of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-21276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/clowes_eightball15.jpg\" alt=\"From 'Caricature,' Eightball #5. \" width=\"750\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/clowes_eightball15.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/clowes_eightball15-400x346.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From 'Caricature,' Eightball #5.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m interested in your relationship to feedback in general, because the reader feedback you used to publish -- the letters section in \u003cem>Eightball\u003c/em> -- was always so entertaining. Even the hateful letters made it such a hilarious little community to be a part of.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was such a fun era. And I felt a responsibility back then, because there was no internet; there was no forum where people who read these comics or were interested in this stuff could connect with each other. I would set people up -- literally, I’d get letters from two different people in Danbury, Connecticut, and I would [write back] saying “There’s this girl who lives in town. You should call her.” I felt like I had to write back to everybody. Anybody who did any comics at all, I’d write them encouraging letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I talk to other artists from my era, like the Hernandez Brothers [of \u003cem>Love and Rockets\u003c/em>], we all talk about how we basically knew 40 percent of our readers by name. On this recent tour a woman came out who had been at a signing I did in 1993, and I completely remembered her name, because she’d written me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a modern version of that? Do you keep up with what fans are saying on the internet? It seems like once you open that door it’s another thing entirely.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, it’s too overwhelming. I can’t get involved in it. It’s just different: there was an ease to it. You’d send a letter and then you’d wait three weeks and get a letter back… every Sunday I spent an hour doing it. I wish I could go back to the old way. It was the ideal scenario, and it was fun: I’d go to my mailbox once a week and it was like Christmas every time. Now, I just have no connection because it’d be too much. But that’s why I really do actually enjoy going on book tours and signings, because you see the demographics. You see, \"Oh, good, I still have young people showing up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You \u003ca href=\"http://boingboing.net/2016/02/17/daniel-clowes-remembers-publis.html\" target=\"_blank\">posted a sweet piece about your friend and assistant Alvin\u003c/a>, who recently passed away. I thought it was such a great note to end on that he took your social media passwords with him.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. He was a wonderful guy, just a kind soul and a really good friend of mine. I miss him every minute. And yeah, he was very protective of that stuff. He took it on himself --\"I'm making you an Instagram page.\" \"Okay.\" I never asked for any of it. And he hated social media!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-21277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_nbncq074HH1s2tgut.jpg\" alt=\"Detail from a New Yorker cover by Clowes, May 2009. \" width=\"504\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_nbncq074HH1s2tgut.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_nbncq074HH1s2tgut-400x290.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from a New Yorker cover by Clowes, May 2009.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you had to wade into the social media waters yourself since then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I immediately tried to get somebody else to take over. [Laughs.] I want people who are looking for info about the book to be able to find it, but I have no desire to craft little jokes and post four times a day or whatever. That seems hopelessly sad to me, to imagine people I really like and respect sitting there and racking their brains to think of a little joke, to get that little jolt of dopamine or whatever. I just feel bad for them that they feel like they have to do that. And you see people who have done 200,000 tweets and you think, that’s just all gone. That’s buried. Nobody will ever, ever look at anything before yesterday. I couldn’t face that. It seems really Sisyphean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I wanted to talk about setting a bit -- I know you live in Oakland, and your love for it came through so clearly in \u003cem>Wilson\u003c/em>, your last book. But the city’s obviously changed a lot since that came out in 2010, even.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right. So, they’re working on a movie of \u003cem>Wilson\u003c/em> -- it’s pretty much done, actually -- and I tried so hard to get them to shoot in Oakland. I wrote the whole script with specific Oakland locations; every one is a real place. But because of regulations it was almost impossible to shoot a movie here. So they shot in St. Paul, Minnesota, which is really weirdly like a version of Oakland from about five or six years ago, before it got the five-star restaurants and all that. It was a good solution, but disappointing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-21316 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-800x771.jpg\" alt=\"A panel from 'Wilson,' set at Lake Merritt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-800x771.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-400x386.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-768x740.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel from 'Wilson,' set at Lake Merritt.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you feel like the city’s changes have seeped into your work at all?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I’m always responding to stuff much later than it’s actually happened. If I were doing a daily strip or something I’m sure it’d be all about the weird developments in Oakland, but it’s stuff that seeps into the work after the fact. I’m guessing my next book will have quite a bit of that, because every single day I find I’m talking to my friends about, “Oh my god, that place went out business and now there’s this new thing.” It’s bizarre, because Oakland seemed so stagnant for the first 15 years I lived here. I used to go downtown all the time and just walk around the abandoned parts of downtown Oakland and think \"How can this be? How can this big structure for commerce just be sitting empty?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you imagine having moved here now? There’s obviously a different situation than you moved into, for artists and creative people trying to make a living.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m pretty aware that there will probably never be a community of young cartoonists here, which really bothers me. You go to a place like Portland, which I’m sure will wind up like Oakland in about five years, but there’s just hundreds of cartoonists there, and it feels like this real community. Here, it’s just daunting. I wouldn’t even recommend anybody who wants to do something like cartooning live here. You can do it anywhere! I guess if you’re somebody who’s really skilled with tech stuff you could get an easy job and then do it in your spare time or something... but most cartoonists aren’t really tech people. It’s a very different part of your brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have a sense of what’s next for you after the tours for this book are over? Do you have the itch do shorter things after working on something so lengthy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My whole goal after this was to take a month off, not think about anything, just read books and hang out. And after about two days of that, I was going insane. I started to feel like, I have this limited time on the planet and every day is precious. I have that Midwestern work ethic drummed into me, I think. So I started jotting down ideas for a new story. I always look through my old notebooks and see if anything pops out that I maybe dismissed earlier, and I came up with a couple things that hold my interest. I’m piecing something together. But it’ll probably be a while! We’ll see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Daniel Clowes discusses \u003c/em>Patience\u003cem> at Green Apple Books on the Park on Wednesday, March 23 at at 7:30pm. \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-daniel-clowes\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's a cliché because it's true: Life can change in an instant. Often, of course, we can’t tell which choices will shape our lives until they’re years away in the rearview mirror, given weight and color by the present. So it’s oddly fitting, perhaps, that \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fantagraphics.com/patience/\" target=\"_blank\">Patience\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Daniel Clowes’ first book in a half-decade -- the renowned graphic novelist’s most ambitious, reflective, weighty work yet, and one that took him five long years to birth -- is obsessed with events that take place in a matter of seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clowes was one of the first comics artists to propel the graphic novel into the mainstream literary world. Though a devoted, far-flung fan base had been following his delightfully weird \u003ca href=\"http://www.fantagraphics.com/complete8ball/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Eightball\u003c/em> series\u003c/a> for a nearly a decade, it was the bleak comedy of 1997's coming-of-age story \u003cem>Ghost World\u003c/em> that, for many, cast a whole new light on what comics could be. (The screenplay adaptation of that book earned Clowes an Oscar nomination, revealing a new talent of his, as well.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the nearly two decades since, Clowes has become something of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/01/06/daniel-clowes-boycotting-comic-award-contest-bereft-of-female-nominees/\" target=\"_blank\">respected elder figure within the comics scene\u003c/a> (no matter how uncomfortable that delineation might make the 54-year-old) as his art fills retrospectives and museum exhibits alongside current \u003cem>New Yorker \u003c/em>covers. But his hallmark remains: an uncanny ability to imbue a seemingly dull interaction between characters with a level of nuance that leaps off the page, not in spite of but because of its quietude: the simple melancholia and hilarity of everyday existence, the hopes and pitfalls of loners and weirdos, are rendered with as much urgency as any bank robbery or high-speed car chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21317\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 650px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-21317 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc3.jpg\" alt=\"dc3\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc3.jpg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc3-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel from 'Patience.'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a departure from much of his earlier work, \u003cem>Patience\u003c/em> (Fantagraphics; $29.99) sees Clowes blending literal action -- ray-gun fight scenes, seedy gambling dens straight out of\u003cem> Blade Runner\u003c/em> -- with his usual subtle human drama. Over the course of 180 bright, color-saturated pages, the reader follows a couple (the titular Patience and her husband Jack) on a surrealist, time-traveling adventure; Jack fixates on the past, attempting to change the course of history in order to ensure his family’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clowes, who lives in Piedmont with his own wife and son, made some time to chat about the book ahead of \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-daniel-clowes\" target=\"_blank\">his appearance on Wednesday, March 23 at Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco\u003c/a>. (This interview has been edited and condensed, if you can believe that.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED Pop: One thing I’ve always admired about your earlier work is the degree to which you experimented and changed styles between comics, even within a single issue of \u003cem>Eightball\u003c/em>. So I’m curious what it felt like to work on one cohesive project for five long years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daniel Clowes:\u003c/strong> You put the proper gravitas in that question. It’s funny, because I know the book looks fairly uniform, but I’ve gotten to the point where there are all these subtle shifts in style that made it seem jarringly different from page to page, and that’s in no way perceptible to anybody but me. But that was enough to keep me from feeling like I was stuck in a method I got bored with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also somehow I knew that this was going to be a book that was all about the coloring. In the past, all my color books started out, like, ‘This could still be black and white, or maybe just one color,’ and then I morphed into color mode by the end. In this one, I knew what I wanted it to look like. I think the color brings it all together and you don’t really notice the slight stylistic shifts from scene to scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[In terms of the narrative], carrying all the initial inspirations all the way through over five years really was that feeling of carrying a lit match across a windstorm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 538px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-21314\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc1.jpg\" alt=\"Panels from 'Patience'\" width=\"538\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc1.jpg 538w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/dc1-400x360.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panels from 'Patience.'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With some of the action sequences, I was thinking about in \u003cem>Calvin and Hobbes\u003c/em>, when Bill Watterson would use Spaceman Spiff to let out that adventure-action comic strip he always wanted to do. Are these images things you’d been wanting to draw for years, and this was your chance?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few things I’ve wanted to [do] for a long time -- not necessarily specific images in my head that I wanted to get on paper. But I love that idea of seeing a little bit of the workings of the universe behind the visual reality that we all see every day. I’ve always felt that presence, that there’s some infinite mathematical void that’s in the wings behind the stage, behind that play that we’re looking at as our reality, and thought about how to best depict that. There are [other] comic artists that allude to that -- mostly guys from the '50s, post-war guys with PTSD, looking at the world in a bigger way than their stories would indicate. I was always very inspired by that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The time-travel stuff, the ability to go back and change a specific moment in the past -- did that come out of anything in particular for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, the notion of examining your past very carefully ... the last 10 years or so, I’ve had a whole bunch of retrospective projects, which are the kind of thing I normally just run from. I really don’t want to go back in time. But I got roped into doing a museum show of my work, and that led to a monograph, and then at the same time I had agreed to do a reprint of all the early \u003cem>Eightball\u003c/em>s, and that box set. It was all stuff that I thought, ‘Okay, I’ll let somebody else do that and I’ll work on my own thing.’ Then, of course, I got really drawn into the whole process and found myself in this odd dialogue with this younger version of myself. And in some ways it seemed like no time had passed at all, and in other ways it seemed like I was talking to a different person, in a different era, and it wasn’t myself at all. I didn’t even recognize myself in some of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-21272 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_o380a6psMB1s2tgut_500.jpg\" alt=\"Patience, in 'Patience.'\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_o380a6psMB1s2tgut_500.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_o380a6psMB1s2tgut_500-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patience, in 'Patience.' \u003ccite>(Fantagraphics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I heard that \u003ca href=\"http://museumca.org/exhibit/modern-cartoonist-art-daniel-clowes\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Museum exhibition\u003c/a> was great, but it also sounds a little bit like being eulogized before your time?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It absolutely felt like that. It was like attending your own funeral and hearing what people say about you -- which was all very nice. There’s a movie called \u003cem>Scarlet Street\u003c/em> that opens with Edward G. Robinson going to his retirement dinner, and he’s presented with this gold watch and everybody pats him on his back and then that’s it. He leaves and he has no friends or life after that. It really did feel like that. It was weird. I disassociated myself from it and started to just think of myself as a collector of Daniel Clowes artwork after a while, because you’d see name tags on things like they were on loan from a collector -- but it was ‘on loan from Daniel and Erica Clowes.’ I would be so proud. Like, wow, I have artwork loaned to a museum!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there works you specifically noticed that, if you could go back, you would change?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time in my life I most thought about going back and changing things was when I was much younger. Like, “I wish I could go back to Thursday and not have said that stupid thing in class.” You know, the whole “If I could only do it again, I’d have the perfect comeback for that guy.” Stuff like that. And then as you get older, you have so many of those moments you couldn’t really pick one. It would be your entire life. [Laughs.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also sometimes think, when I look at my old comics, “If I could redo that now, I could make it really perfect.” But that would be such a terrible idea. A, it would make it worse, no matter how well you drew it or wrote it, and B, it would crush your life as it is now. It’s just not a good way to think. The more I got into the story, the more I realized that I have no desire whatsoever to do that, and I embraced the way that events unfold in a way you can’t really imagine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-800x963.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Clowes, a self-portrait.\" width=\"800\" height=\"963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-800x963.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-400x482.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-768x925.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-1440x1734.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-1920x2312.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-1180x1421.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/DanClowesPortrait-960x1156.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Clowes, a self-portrait. \u003ccite>(Fantagraphics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With a lot of artistic depictions of dystopian futures, there’s usually a nostalgia about the past, a romanticism about decades gone by, and I really didn’t get that in \u003cem>Patience\u003c/em>. It seems like Jack is pissed off to be in the '70s or whatever. “This sh*t, really?”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Laughs.] Yeah, if somebody sent me back to 1985, I would just be \u003cem>so sad\u003c/em>. It’s funny, because I really love certain past aesthetics, and I’ve always felt that the way history just steamrolls the past, especially art history -- the way there’ll be a perfectly good method of painting or writing or something and then the next thing will come along and destroy that. I’ve always been interested in going back and finding these old modes that were cast aside too soon and seeing what there is in them and combining them with other modes, things like that. I’m certainly not someone who’s 100 percent forward-minded. But I don’t have any desire to go back to any other time. I think as crazy and chaotic as things are, things are always slightly improving in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That’s a message I think a lot of people could use right now.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I didn’t really want to depict the future as a dystopia. I think people always have the feeling that they’re in the end times and everything is crumbling. I don’t know that that’s necessarily true. I feel like it’s just getting more fragmented and hard to grasp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21319\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/Patience-24-650x371.jpg\" alt=\"Patience-24-650x371\" width=\"650\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/Patience-24-650x371.jpg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/Patience-24-650x371-400x228.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Since you mentioned the, uh, end times: there’s a kind of blowhard evangelical political TV personality in the book. Was that based on anyone in particular?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just like that kind of American demagogue character. Of course, now it seems really prescient that we’ve got actual people like that vying for the White House. At the time, I was writing it and I thought ‘What would it take for a guy like this to become president?’ I thought that seemed really far-fetched, and now it seems much less so. But yeah, he came out of guys like Glenn Beck and people like that, who are clearly not speaking truthfully to their audience, projecting an image that’s not necessarily true in any way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’ve read that you didn’t show this to anyone as you worked?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did not let anybody read it. People come in and out of my studio all the time, and pages are out; pages are there. People who saw it had no idea what was going on, and I think a lot of them thought I had lost my mind when they were just looking at the art. My wife wants to read it all at once -- which, I would never want her to be reading something and go “hmm.” That would throw me off so intensely. Just a little “what?” And then that’s all I would think about. Zero response is the best. Then when it’s done, I’m more than happy to hear anything, negative or positive, but not while I’m in the throes of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-21276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/clowes_eightball15.jpg\" alt=\"From 'Caricature,' Eightball #5. \" width=\"750\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/clowes_eightball15.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/clowes_eightball15-400x346.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From 'Caricature,' Eightball #5.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m interested in your relationship to feedback in general, because the reader feedback you used to publish -- the letters section in \u003cem>Eightball\u003c/em> -- was always so entertaining. Even the hateful letters made it such a hilarious little community to be a part of.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was such a fun era. And I felt a responsibility back then, because there was no internet; there was no forum where people who read these comics or were interested in this stuff could connect with each other. I would set people up -- literally, I’d get letters from two different people in Danbury, Connecticut, and I would [write back] saying “There’s this girl who lives in town. You should call her.” I felt like I had to write back to everybody. Anybody who did any comics at all, I’d write them encouraging letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I talk to other artists from my era, like the Hernandez Brothers [of \u003cem>Love and Rockets\u003c/em>], we all talk about how we basically knew 40 percent of our readers by name. On this recent tour a woman came out who had been at a signing I did in 1993, and I completely remembered her name, because she’d written me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a modern version of that? Do you keep up with what fans are saying on the internet? It seems like once you open that door it’s another thing entirely.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, it’s too overwhelming. I can’t get involved in it. It’s just different: there was an ease to it. You’d send a letter and then you’d wait three weeks and get a letter back… every Sunday I spent an hour doing it. I wish I could go back to the old way. It was the ideal scenario, and it was fun: I’d go to my mailbox once a week and it was like Christmas every time. Now, I just have no connection because it’d be too much. But that’s why I really do actually enjoy going on book tours and signings, because you see the demographics. You see, \"Oh, good, I still have young people showing up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You \u003ca href=\"http://boingboing.net/2016/02/17/daniel-clowes-remembers-publis.html\" target=\"_blank\">posted a sweet piece about your friend and assistant Alvin\u003c/a>, who recently passed away. I thought it was such a great note to end on that he took your social media passwords with him.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. He was a wonderful guy, just a kind soul and a really good friend of mine. I miss him every minute. And yeah, he was very protective of that stuff. He took it on himself --\"I'm making you an Instagram page.\" \"Okay.\" I never asked for any of it. And he hated social media!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-21277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_nbncq074HH1s2tgut.jpg\" alt=\"Detail from a New Yorker cover by Clowes, May 2009. \" width=\"504\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_nbncq074HH1s2tgut.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/tumblr_inline_nbncq074HH1s2tgut-400x290.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from a New Yorker cover by Clowes, May 2009.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Have you had to wade into the social media waters yourself since then?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I immediately tried to get somebody else to take over. [Laughs.] I want people who are looking for info about the book to be able to find it, but I have no desire to craft little jokes and post four times a day or whatever. That seems hopelessly sad to me, to imagine people I really like and respect sitting there and racking their brains to think of a little joke, to get that little jolt of dopamine or whatever. I just feel bad for them that they feel like they have to do that. And you see people who have done 200,000 tweets and you think, that’s just all gone. That’s buried. Nobody will ever, ever look at anything before yesterday. I couldn’t face that. It seems really Sisyphean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I wanted to talk about setting a bit -- I know you live in Oakland, and your love for it came through so clearly in \u003cem>Wilson\u003c/em>, your last book. But the city’s obviously changed a lot since that came out in 2010, even.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right. So, they’re working on a movie of \u003cem>Wilson\u003c/em> -- it’s pretty much done, actually -- and I tried so hard to get them to shoot in Oakland. I wrote the whole script with specific Oakland locations; every one is a real place. But because of regulations it was almost impossible to shoot a movie here. So they shot in St. Paul, Minnesota, which is really weirdly like a version of Oakland from about five or six years ago, before it got the five-star restaurants and all that. It was a good solution, but disappointing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-21316 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-800x771.jpg\" alt=\"A panel from 'Wilson,' set at Lake Merritt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-800x771.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-400x386.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-768x740.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/03/wilson_0-e1458345053601.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A panel from 'Wilson,' set at Lake Merritt.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you feel like the city’s changes have seeped into your work at all?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I’m always responding to stuff much later than it’s actually happened. If I were doing a daily strip or something I’m sure it’d be all about the weird developments in Oakland, but it’s stuff that seeps into the work after the fact. I’m guessing my next book will have quite a bit of that, because every single day I find I’m talking to my friends about, “Oh my god, that place went out business and now there’s this new thing.” It’s bizarre, because Oakland seemed so stagnant for the first 15 years I lived here. I used to go downtown all the time and just walk around the abandoned parts of downtown Oakland and think \"How can this be? How can this big structure for commerce just be sitting empty?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can you imagine having moved here now? There’s obviously a different situation than you moved into, for artists and creative people trying to make a living.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m pretty aware that there will probably never be a community of young cartoonists here, which really bothers me. You go to a place like Portland, which I’m sure will wind up like Oakland in about five years, but there’s just hundreds of cartoonists there, and it feels like this real community. Here, it’s just daunting. I wouldn’t even recommend anybody who wants to do something like cartooning live here. You can do it anywhere! I guess if you’re somebody who’s really skilled with tech stuff you could get an easy job and then do it in your spare time or something... but most cartoonists aren’t really tech people. It’s a very different part of your brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have a sense of what’s next for you after the tours for this book are over? Do you have the itch do shorter things after working on something so lengthy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My whole goal after this was to take a month off, not think about anything, just read books and hang out. And after about two days of that, I was going insane. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thor, Spock and other assorted sci-fi and fantasy characters are wandering the halls of the San Jose Convention Center this weekend for \u003ca href=\"http://svcomiccon.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Comic Con\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you’d expect, the people-watching will be a big draw. Not only will spectators get to ogle pint-sized superheroes in their Halloween costumes, they’ll eve catch glimpses of tech icons like Apple co founder Steve Wozniak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wozniak is a sci-fi fan boy and he wanted a new Comic Con close to home. “I go back 30, 40 years driving down to Los Angeles to see Star Trek conventions and see those people, and I’m going to actually get to meet William Shatner. I heard that he wants to have a dinner with me. Wow. I mean I’m real nervous over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”OqkPYrEeyYXdAIKZH4Hw8kkM9mCYknKd”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dinner with Capt. Kirk may be the real reason Wozniak helped rally the people and capital to spawn another spinoff of the original Comic Con in San Diego. But the event is more than another opportunity to appreciate Hollywood franchises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local artists are displaying their work here before a genuinely enthusiastic crowd of thousands, an estimated 30,000 per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11418693 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18832_trex.JPG-qut-1-400x511.jpg\" alt=\"This is Hannah McGill's best-seller. "A lot of people think he's singing opera."\" width=\"400\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18832_trex.JPG-qut-1-400x511.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18832_trex.JPG-qut-1-470x600.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18832_trex.JPG-qut-1.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Hannah McGill’s best-seller. “A lot of people think he’s singing opera.” \u003ccite>(Photo: Rachael Myrow/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One such artist on display is illustrator \u003ca href=\"http://www.hannahmcgill.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hannah McGill\u003c/a> from Mountain View. Her passion is paleontology and her take on it is decidedly humorous. “I loved going to the science museum growing up,” she says. “I love the people I’ve met through it. Including paleontologists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Gee from Foster City likes to buy art and books at conventions like this, because she can get the artists to sign their work. “I’m downsizing, but I can’t help it sometimes,” she says before heading back to browse the display booths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418694\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18833_Kwan.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Freelance artist Joanne Kwan of San Jose hopes to make a little money selling art at this Comic Con, but "It's also just fun to hang out with friends. "\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18833_Kwan.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18833_Kwan.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18833_Kwan.JPG-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18833_Kwan.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18833_Kwan.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/RS18833_Kwan.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freelance artist Joanne Kwan of San Jose hopes to make a little money selling art at this Comic Con, but “It’s also just fun to hang out with friends. “\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley Comic Con runs through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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If you have an artistic hobby that you’re passionate about, or know about an artist or organization involved in community art-making, we want to hear from you in any or all of the following ways:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Share an image or video of you (and your friends) participating in your activity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tell us the story of how you got involved in your practice, what it is you do and why it means so much to you\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Send us information about arts organizations or individual coaches who are helping to bring creativity to your community\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can reach us in the following ways:\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Email: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"mailto:cveltman@kqed.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cveltman@kqed.org\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter: @KQEDarts and #KQEDparticipate\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook: KQED Arts\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram: @KQEDofficial and #KQEDparticipate\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Want to learn? 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a wonder Steve-O is still alive today. On the TV shows \u003ci>Jackass\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Wildboyz,\u003c/i> he endured unimaginable pain for the cameras, and on multiple occasions he teased man-eating predators like sharks and alligators, enticing them to take a bite of his oft-abused flesh. On top of that, he had a cocaine habit that would’ve caused a normal person’s chest to burst like in a scene from \u003ci>Alien.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the shows ended, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20210701,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a complete mental breakdown\u003c/a> led Steve-O, born Stephen Glover, to clean up his life. Now 41, eight years sober and a dedicated \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/steve-o-arrested-for-climbing-crane-in-seaworld-protest-20150810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vegan/animal rights activist\u003c/a>, he continues to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/steveo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film grimace-inducing stunts\u003c/a>, but he’s turned his focus to a safer occupation: standup comedy. For the past five years, Steve-O has been a comedy club headliner, traveling the country and spinning tales from his debaucherous past life for his loyal followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Friday, Showtime will be premiering his new standup special, \u003ci>Guilty As Charged,\u003c/i> which features a mix of his stunts (balancing a ladder on his chin, having a UFC fighter choke him out) and a bunch of his cringeworthy stories that one could only laugh at with some distance. 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Living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they came through, I made it my mission to track them down and perform some crazy stunt so they would put me in the magazine, which I did. That put me in contact with them and I maintained that contact by calling and sending videos, pestering my way back into the magazine time and time again. Then when [\u003cem>Big Brother\u003c/em>‘s] videos were turned into \u003ci>Jackass,\u003c/i> I was a part of the gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What was the stunt?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told them I was going to set myself on fire. I was going to spray super-flammable hairspray all over my head, fill my mouth and douse my arm with rubbing alcohol, and light my head on fire. Then a skateboarder would come by and spit a mouthful of rubbing alcohol onto my head, blowing a fireball, which I would reach into with my arm as it came off my head, thereby lighting my arm on fire. 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