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> [I try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have the story to go with it. I'm not so much interested in forcing the issue of reader identification…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/i-try-to-employ-a-different-strategy-for-each-story-often-i-ll-have-a/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

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## More by Daniel Clowes

> [“This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/this-is-the-mona-lisa-of-bad-diners/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/i-lose-faith-in-everything-else-but-rarely-in-my-work-if-i-start-to/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/surely-comics-require-more-effort-on-the-part-of-the-reader-than/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/you-need-to-be-like-turning-down-high-paying-illustration-work/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/though-to-the-average-person-that-you-ll-meet-on-an-airplane-if-you/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/that-ll-be-my-claim-to-fame-my-grandmother-in-law-is-the-oldest-ipad/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/usually-when-i-put-together-a-book-like-this-death-ray-hardcover-or/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/i-think-that-s-what-we-re-all-most-terrified-about-that-we-ll-just/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/when-i-go-back-and-reread-the-stuff-i-m-always-floored-by-how-deeply/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/i-d-always-wanted-to-do-a-weekly-strip-or-a-strip-that-was-in/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/you-have-to-find-the-tone-of-the-piece-and-modulate-that-there-are/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/often-i-ll-do-research-just-to-get-a-time-period-correct-but-i-didn-t/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/my-feeling-is-that-it-s-one-of-the-very-few-things-that-comics-can-do/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [All I can say on the Guilford story - and this comes more from my perspective as a father than an artist - is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/all-i-can-say-on-the-guilford-story-and-this-comes-more-from-my/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

> [I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-clowes/i-think-i-ve-had-the-fantasy-of-a-ray-gun-that-could-erase-the-world/)

[Daniel Clowes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-clowes/)

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