I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be,… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I'm usually the last to see my influence in other people's work. People give me stuff and say "Oh look, this guy's… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to do a weekly strip, or a strip that was in installments like that. It's been fun trying to figure out… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
