Daniel Clowes was born in in Chicago in 1961. He is the creator of the comic book Eightball, twenty-two issues of which have been published to date. His work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Vogue, Time and Newsweek, among others. A feature film based on his 1998 book, Ghost World, starring Thora Birch, was released in 2001 by MGM. He lives a childless, petless life in California with his beloved wife.