Daniel Clowes
Daniel Clowes
Daniel Gillespie Clowesis an American cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter. Most of Clowes's work first appeared in Eightball, a solo anthology comic book series. An Eightball issue typically contained several short pieces and a chapter of a longer narrative that was later collected and published as a graphic novel, such as Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Ghost World, and David Boring. Clowes’s illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vogue, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. With filmmaker Terry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth14 April 1961
CountryUnited States of America
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
More and more, I tried to make comics in the way I like to read comics, and I found that when I read comics that are really densely packed with text, it may be rewarding when I finally do sit down and read it, but it never is going to be the first I'm going to read, and I never am fully excited to just sit down and read that comic.
I try personally not to be nostalgic.
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
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.
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.