A month ago Connie sent me three boxes, four years on, full of stuff what I left when I moved away from the Left Coast, and I’m just now finding the time to unload them, gradually. Most of it is old journals, books of poetry from 1998, fanzines I forgot I wrote for (Kitty Magik, anyone? QUI UBOLE, KITTY MAGIK?), books I’m glad I didn’t lose (Signifying Rappers: David Foster Wallace & Mark Costello; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick; New York City Ballet Workout: proto-pilates). But tonight, TONIGHT, I UNCOVERED THE ARC OF THE COVENANT OF MY JUNK!: The handwritten postcard from Dan Clowes, esteemed graphic novelist, in response to my elaborate fan letter, after he blew my mind clean open with Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron and the then-new David Boring thread in Eightball (pre-superfame, pre-Ghost World movie). God bless ‘im, he wrote the following, POSTMARKED JAN 3, 2000:
Eightball
2140 Shattuck AVe
Suite 2107
Berkeley, CA 94704
Julianne Shepherd
314 NW 5th Ave #213
Portland, OR 97209
hi Julianne,
Thanks for your generous offer. Unfortunately, I am not marriage material (just ask my wife). You should hold out for someone better.
My best to you, and thank you for the kind words.
Daniel Clowes
———–
Jon mocked me today for writing such an effusive a fan letter as recently as 2000 but as I pointed out, 2000 was before the internet was invented and I was working at a comic shoppe at the time so I got over on the special nerd clause. DAN CLOWES!!
jon mocking me
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I too wrote Dan Clowes an effusive fan letter at one point. I think around 1994-1995. He too replied with a postcard. When I was writing fan letters in those days my experience was that underground cartoonists (Chris Ware!) wrote back, and indie rockers didn’t.
IK
I too wrote Dan Clowes an effusive fan letter at one point, although without a marriage proposal. I think around 1994-1995. He too replied with a postcard. When I was writing fan letters in those days my experience was that underground cartoonists (Chris Ware!) wrote back, and indie rockers didn’t.
IK
I too wrote Dan Clowes an effusive fan letter at one point, although without a marriage proposal. I think around 1994-1995. He too replied with a postcard. When I was writing fan letters in those days my experience was that underground cartoonists (Chris Ware!) wrote back, and indie rockers didn’t.
IK
I too wrote Dan Clowes an effusive fan letter at one point, although without a marriage proposal. I think around 1994-1995. He too replied with a postcard. When I was writing fan letters in those days my experience was that underground cartoonists (Chris Ware!) wrote back, and indie rockers didn’t.
IK
I too wrote Dan Clowes an effusive fan letter at one point, although without a marriage proposal. I think around 1994-1995. He too replied with a postcard. When I was writing fan letters in those days my experience was that underground cartoonists (Chris Ware!) wrote back, and indie rockers didn’t.
IK