Focus Acquires Worldwide Rights to Daniel Clowes' Patience
Oscar®-nominee will adapt his best-selling graphic novel.
In a show of continued breadth of vision with global reach, Focus Features has acquired film rights to Daniel Clowes' Patience.
Ghost World's Doug
Daniel Clowes is a celebrated graphic novelist, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter [Ghost World], and frequent cover artist for The New Yorker.
In addition to his 2001 Oscar® nomination for his work with director Terry Zwigoff on Ghost World, Mr. Clowes has won multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards as well as a PEN Award in 2011 for Outstanding Body of Work in Graphic Literature.
The Writer
Daniel Clowes is a celebrated graphic novelist, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter [Ghost World], and frequent cover artist for The New Yorker.
In addition to his Oscar® nomination for the adaption of Ghost World, Mr. Clowes has garnered multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards. In 2011 he was awarded the PEN Literary Award for Outstanding Body of Work in Graphic Literature.
A look at Mr. Clowes' career and work can be seen at DanielClowes.com.
Fantagraphics and Daniel Clowes Present Patience
The Story
Per Fantagraphics: "Patience is an indescribable psychedelic science-fiction love story, veering with uncanny precision from violent destruction to deeply personal tenderness in a way that is both quintessentially 'Clowesian,' and utterly unique in the author’s body of work. This 180-page, full-color story affords Clowes the opportunity to draw some of the most exuberant and breathtaking pages of his life, and to tell his most suspenseful, surprising and affecting story yet."