Daniel Clowes' middle name is Gillespie; the potential connection he – or, more likely, it would seem, his parents – have to jazz and the great trumpeter and bandleader may be the only part of Clowes' life that he has not sought, with an often courageous and selfless ugliness, to explo
Lloyd Kaufman, along with producer Michael Herz (who he met while studying at Yale,) is the co-founder of Troma Studios, the world's longest running independent film studio, and he directed many of their features, including The Toxic Avenger, which would catapult hi