Fresh Air, Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff, and Remembering Waylon Jennings

By: Terry Gross

Narrated by: Terry Gross

Cartoonist Daniel Clowes, director Terry Zwigoff, and remembering country music star Waylon Jennings on this edition of Fresh Air. Waylon Jennings died this week at the age of 64. Born in 1937 in Littlefield, Texas, he was a disc jockey at 14, and had already formed his own band at the age of 12, making guest appearances on local station KDAV's "Sunday Party," where he met Buddy Holly in 1955. Jennings became Holly's bass player. In 1975, Waylon was named the Country Music Association's Male Vocalist of the Year, and in 1976, he helped found the "Outlaw Movement." Waylon, the authorized autobiography, was written with writer-musician Lenny Kaye in 1996. Drawn in 1950s pop culture style, Daniel Clowes' comics are darkly humorous satires of middle class America. His graphic novel Ghost World (first published in 1993) is the basis of the film of the same name. Ghost World has just been nominated for an academy award in the Adapted Screenplay division. Clowes' first comic book series was Lloyd Llewellyn, followed by Eightball. Clowes was the first cartoonist to contribute a comic story to Esquire's annual fiction issue. Producer/ Director Terry Zwigoff directed the film Ghost World based on the graphic novel of the same name by Daniel Clowes. Zweigoff also directed the documentary Crumb about the life of Robert Crumb, the famous underground artist who popularized character's such as Mr. Natural, Flakey Foont, and Keep on Truckin'. He also directed the documentary Louie Bluie. (Original Broadcast Dates: October 14, 1996 and September 6, 2001)Want more Fresh Air?

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