The acclaimed cartoonist reflects on his influences and the people he lost as he prepares to publish his first original graphic novel in seven years.
. And “Richard” is Richard Sala, a gifted cartoonist and illustrator who died in 2020. When Clowes moved to the Bay Area three decades ago, he ended up living a block from Sala and set out to forge a friendship. Sala would become a recluse, and often one of his few weekly outings was his regular lunch date with Clowes, his best friend.Sala’s memory, as well as his expressionistic art style, infuses aspects of “Monica.
“When I first started out, I thought of it as sort of a telling a life through multiple genres” that were formative to me, says Clowes, whose tastes growing up included EC horror comics and Archie Comics. For “Monica,” “I immersed myself in the comics I really first loved and still love.” he says. “When you’ve been around as long as I have, it’s kind of amazing when you can still look at a comic that inspired you when you were 14 years old and still feel the same, only on a deeper level.
Clowes says that sitting with one work for such a long period of gestation and execution — he spent a full year simply choosing and applying the colors to his art — was both draining and invigorating. “It was sort of a very mystical process — not something I would recommend a young artist,” he says. “It’s like tending a plant that blooms after eight years.” But it also wasn’t, he adds, “a book I could’ve ever done in less time.”Clowes errs on the side of not revealing too much more.
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