This time around we’re focusing on cartoonist Dan Clowes, probably best known these days for his excellent graphic novel turned excellent movie Ghost World. Clowes is one of the funniest and most disturbing cartoonists around… he often gets compared to filmmaker/artist David Lynch, although his style is utterly different from Lynch’s.

His comic Eightball is unfortunately published pretty infrequently these days, but he seems to top himself with every issue that comes out. Eightball has been high-quality from the start, though… Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is still one of my favorite things he’s done and its serialization started in the first issue of Eightball. If you haven’t read Clowes work, you are really missing out.

All of these obscure Daniel Clowes images were found at comicartfans.com. Click on the images to go to the full size versions on that site. Many more images by Clowes and other cartoonists can be found there as well… in these “obscure images” posts I’m focusing mostly on stuff that hasn’t been published to my knowledge.

Here’s a Clowes interpretation of Little Lulu.

Here’s the original art for an Eightball cover.

Here’s a Clowes interpretation of Wonder Woman. This is part of the wonderful and amazing Joel Thingvall collection of Wonder Woman art by hundreds of cartoonists we’ve been lucky enough to have partially displayed in the glass cases at FallCon in the Twin Cities for the last number of years (including this piece).

Dan Clowes portrait of musician Pet Droge. Apparently this one is currently for sale or trade, if you’re interested… follow the link on it for more info.