Hooked on Comix

Hooked Merch!

2026-09-27T06:07:39.157-07:00

Let me know if you crave a Hooked on Comix t-shirt, button, bag, or something else! Drop me a note at:

PSCraftworks@gmail.com

Robert Crumb .. Early work

2016-11-01T08:00:00.002-07:00

Early work from the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery show in Seattle!

Daniel Clowes' note after watching Hooked on Comix

2016-02-15T10:02:00.001-08:00

Dan's note (1994) after watching Hooked on Comix for the first time ...

Cleaning out the garage - found this in a box with other paraphernalia.

Daniel Clowes new book - Patience!

2016-01-15T10:57:00.002-08:00

Be patient, Patience is coming ... you can pre-order from Fantagraphics here.

Daniel Clowes - The Stranger cover!

2015-04-16T09:25:00.003-07:00

Nice cover for Seattle's The Stranger! Dan Clowes will be at the Fantagraphics Bookstore signing his new Complete Eightball book April 18th!

Fantagraphics Bookstore is located at 1201 S. Vale Street in the heart of Seattle's historic Georgetown arts community. Open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM, Sundays until 5:00 PM. Phone 206.658.0110.

The Complete Eightball by Daniel Clowes

2015-04-13T10:17:00.001-07:00

Before he rose to fame as the author of the bestselling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form, exactly as they were originally published. Out in stores May 2015 $119.99

Included are over 450 pages of vintage Clowes, including such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants as “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron,” “Ghost World,” “Pussey,” “I Hate You Deeply,” “Sexual Frustration,” “Ugly Girls,” “Why I Hate Christians,” “Message to the People of the Future,” “Paranoid,” “My Suicide,” “Chicago,” “Art School Confidential,” “On Sports,” “Zubrick and Pogeybait,” “Hippypants and Peace-Bear,” “Grip Glutz,” “The Sensual Santa,” “Feldman,” “Glue Destiny,” and so many more, including many never reprinted before now.

Video of new book!

Charlie Hebdo

2015-01-08T11:10:00.001-08:00

Ivan Brunetti's newest New Yorker cover!

2014-12-08T11:39:00.000-08:00

Look for Ivan in Hooked on Comix Vol. 2!

Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey coming to the big screen!

2014-11-07T08:21:00.004-08:00

Tony Millionaire (Maakies), who starred in HOOKED ON COMIX Vol. 3, is working to get Sock Monkey: Into The Deep Woods onto the big screen! Look for the new book on Fantagraphics and stay tuned for Sock Monkey's on screen debut!

Chris Ware New Yorker cover art!

2014-11-07T08:07:00.001-08:00

Another fine New Yorker cover by Chris Ware who starred in Hooked On Comix Vol. 2!

"Iron Mask" screenplay!

2014-10-29T10:52:00.000-07:00

Here it is! The Iron Mask screenplay! This is the script I wrote starting in 1994. I wrote it after reading Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes.

There's a cop beating, an eerie grotesque character getting a haircut, murder, vomiting and degenerate family fun! It's a gas to read after it sat for twenty years on an old floppy disk! The story is a lot different than "Like a Glove," but it's definitely in the same mysterious, creepy vein.

Hooked on Comix at Seattle's Bumbershoot - from 2010

2014-10-11T16:52:00.002-07:00

Found this photo of the "Counterculture Comix" exhibition at Bumbershoot in Seattle - from 2010.

The show featured continuous screenings of classic early volumes of Hooked on Comix.

Daniel Clowes can be seen on the screens.

Daniel Clowes New Yorker cover ...

2014-10-10T16:09:00.004-07:00

I went to a dinner party at my friend's parents house, they had a whole wall framed with New Yorker covers. This was the best, in my opinion.

LAST GASP .... Last gasps????

2014-10-02T09:35:00.001-07:00

Another comix publisher needs your help in this economic down turn. Last Gasp Kickstarter campaign:

Chris Ware talks about his art ...

2014-10-01T09:57:00.001-07:00

Ghost World script by Daniel Clowes found in trash!

2014-09-24T10:26:00.000-07:00

My friend Gary Smith (a great cartoonist in his own right) lent me an original first-draft Ghost World script by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff! His brother in-law, a film director, tossed the script in the trash bin after he lost the job to direct the movie.

Original Ghost World script by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff

Daniel Clowes talks ...

2014-09-10T10:13:00.002-07:00

J.R. WILLIAMS KOOL Flickr site!

2014-09-04T13:51:00.002-07:00

Lots-O-Kool stuff to look at!

FUGAZI "First Demo" out late 2014

2014-09-03T13:21:00.000-07:00

I'm a big fan of all things Dischord, so I had to repost this from their website.
From Dischord Records:
Later this year, Dischord will release Fugazi's first demo. In January 1988, after only ten shows, Fugazi decided to go into Inner Ear Studio to see what their music sounded like on tape. They tracked 11 songs, ten of which were given away on cassettes, which the band encouraged people to share. The only song from the session that has been formally released was "In Defense of Humans," which appeared on the State of the Union compilation in 1989. Now, some 26 years later, Dischord is releasing the entire demo including the one song ("Turn Off Your Guns") that wasn't included on the original cassette. The record has been mastered by TJ Lipple and will be available on CD and LP+Mp3.

I shot this video in 1989 with Ian MacKaye's permission:

UPDATE to the UPDATE: The script is ALIVE!!!! Daniel Clowes-Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron-Lost script????

2014-08-22T08:51:00.000-07:00

UPDATE to the UPDATE: The script has been recovered from the disk and it is alive and well!!!!!

UPDATE!!!! I've found the 3 1/2" floppy disk that the script could be on!!!! Can it be transferred to my USB drive and opened??????

Original art detail from Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes. This one page inspired me to write a creepy-noir script. At the time my screen writing professor thought it could win a student Academy Award! Too bad I lost the script when I moved from Chicago to LA.

Could the lost script be found or rewritten and made into a movie???? Stay tuned ...

TOP 10 Comic Book Docs by Iann Robinson

2014-08-21T20:50:00.000-07:00

Top 10 Comic Book Documentaries by craveonline's Iann Robinson. Number 7 goes to Hooked on Comix! I'll take any publicity I can get!

07. Hooked On Comix: Life On The Cutting Edge Of An All-American Artform

This documentary released in the mid-nineties chronicles the re-birth of the independent comic book movement. These are the people that took the reigns from Crumb, Spain, Harvey Pekar and others to make sure that the independent spirit didn’t crumble or die. Hooked On Comix features interviews with Peter Bagge (Hate Comics), Daniel Clowes (Ghost World), Roberta Gregory (Naughty Bits), Jamie Hernandez (Love And Rockets), and a dozen more major talents in the world of comic books. The interviews are very relaxed and informative as well as very honest.

This film shows the ups and downs of being an indie comic artist not willing to deal with the big two of DC and Marvel. Getting by on talent, gumption and a belief in what they are creating these artists show why they are the future of the medium.

Hooked on Comix Vol. 3!

2014-08-19T13:32:00.002-07:00

Noah Van Sciver Original Art for sale!

2014-08-19T13:13:00.001-07:00

From Noah:

In light of recent catastrophic events in my personal life, it’s become necessary for me to sell off some original comic pages to help me land on my feet and not wind up living at the YMCA. If you’ve read any of my stories or comics in the past and they’ve made you laugh, cry, kind of happy, or all of the above, then please consider owning one of these pages for your collection!All page are $100 please email me at noahvansciver(at)gmail.com to let me know which one you are interested in. And thank you so much. You have no idea…

http://nvansciver.wordpress.com/
Buy his Hooked on Comix designed t-shirt to the right and I'll pass the proceeds on to Noah!

INTRUDER coming to LA?!

2014-08-17T09:31:00.000-07:00

I've been talking to Marc Palm to get Intruder into some LA comic books stores. I think it deserves a wider audience and would relish the thought of picking it up locally (yes, I live in LA)!

My entry to The New Yorker caption contest

2014-08-08T13:26:00.001-07:00

"I'll call you back. I think the litter box is full."

I originally wrote: "Can I borrow a snow shovel? I think the litter box is full." I thought it was a bit wordy, since shorter is usually better (so I hear). We'll see if anyone thinks its funny!