There’s always talk about how it’s what goes on between the panels that gives life to a comic. _And the narrative gaps, is that something that the reader was bridging? _ So I ended up trying out all these styles and in the process came to the realization that that was how I needed to do the book, in a variety of styles-and it somehow didn’t affect the reading.
Some are stupid, over-the-top jokes others are supposed to be poignant moments. When I began that, I couldn’t come up with a style that worked for every strip, because each page was different from the others in tone. And so there’d be all this missing data in between the events of the strips that would somehow add up to this kind of enigmatic graphic novel when you put them all together. Well, my original idea for that book had been that it would be presented as if “Wilson” had been a strip running daily in the newspaper, but imply that a bunch of them had been lost so that the remaining ones were the only evidence of this character. What did you have to do to imagine converting the project to a film? The book version of “ Wilson” is made up entirely of one-page strips.
In the end, I ended up combining seven or eight into that one strip. I thought I’d do one of them as a two-page strip for The New Yorker. Well, right after I’d finished the book of “Wilson,” I was looking through all my aborted notes and things and I realized I had ten to fifteen little one-page stories that just didn’t fit into the continuity of the book. _ The New Yorker published a “ Wilson” strip in 2010. We talked to Clowes about the conception of the original book, the making of the movie adaptation, and the travails of his irascible anti-hero across the page and the screen. In the excerpt featured above, Wilson, certain that his estranged ex-wife has fallen into prostitution, embarks on a quixotic mission to reunite their family. Originally published in 2010, the book is a series of one-page comic strips that follow the main character as he clumsily navigates a series of life-altering events, beginning with his father’s death. “Wilson” the book is being reissued in softcover by Drawn & Quarterly. Craig Johnson’s adaptation of Clowes’s graphic novel, from a screenplay by Clowes and featuring Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern, will be released in New York on March 24th. After “Ghost World” and “Art School Confidential,” his latest character to make the transition is Wilson, a solitary, cynical, and hilariously blunt middle-aged man living in a nondescript American town. Dan Clowes, the renowned cartoonist behind the comic-book series “Eightball” and graphic novels such as “Ice Haven,” has a knack for creating characters that jump off the page and onto the movie screen.
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