{"id":8137,"date":"2011-01-19T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:30:58","slug":"wood-and-clowes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=8137","title":{"rendered":"Wood and Clowes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8138\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8138\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8138 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood.jpg?resize=208%2C210\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo you can stare at for hours.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Daniel Clowes has never made a secret of his Wally Wood fixation. Wood\u2019s life and career, in all its lurid glory and splendid squalor held a particular fascination for Clowes when the younger cartoonist was starting out, a fascination that continues to this day. One example worth calling attention to: compare Gil Ortiz\u2019s amazing photograph of Wood sitting by a typewriter (found <a href=\"http:\/\/potrzebie.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/wood-chips.html\">here<\/a>)with the back of the cover Clowes did for Ivan Brunetti\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/7-9780300126716-1\">An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories, volume 2<\/a>. The large panel with the cartoonist sitting on his bed is clearly inspired by the Ortiz photo.<\/p>\n<p>The entire cover, a fine example of Clowes\u2019 recent move into fragmented storytelling,\u00a0calls out for a Parille-ite close reading. Briefly, the large panel with the cartoonist on the bed is, I think, the central scene. All the major graphic elements for the front cover and the various smaller fragments are taken from stuff the cartoonist sees in his room. The whole page is about the relationship between the limited physical space a cartoonist works in (the squalid room) and the products of his imagination. This relationship shows elements of both discrepancy (the images the cartoonist draws are more romantic than the reality) as well as linkage (the graphic elements of what the cartoonist draws are taken from stuff around him). Especially interesting is the fact that the cartoon Ivan Brunetti is nothing like the actually existing Brunetti: the cartoonist only deals with the editor through the phone and has an unreal (and hyper-exaggerated) image of what the editor is like.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8139\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/clowes.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8139\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8139\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/clowes.jpg?resize=300%2C122\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clowes cover.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Clowes has never made a secret of his Wally Wood fixation. Wood\u2019s life and career, in all its lurid glory and splendid squalor held a particular fascination for Clowes when the younger cartoonist was starting out, a fascination that continues to this day. One example worth calling attention to: compare Gil Ortiz\u2019s amazing photograph of Wood sitting by a typewriter (found here)with the back of the cover Clowes did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[299,596,743,1357],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-clowes","tag-brunetti","tag-parille","tag-w-wood"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}