BOLA OCHO
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
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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
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