Four Color Comics

CHUD.com has posted an interview with Daniel Clowes about his film, Art School Confidential.

Q: Alternative comics, for lack of a better term, had their heyday in the early 90s. Where do you think they are now?

Clowes: I think they migrated into the regular publishing world. I think the kind of stuff we’re doing is the stuff that editors at the real publishing houses respond to. We were talking about how everybody has a movie deal – now everybody has a publishing deal. I thin that’s ultimately going to be even more detrimental because I think there’s going to be a lot of books that just won’t sell and nobody will want to do them anymore. It’s unfair to the books that would sell.

Art School Confidential sees limited release today. It is receiving mixed reviews.