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
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and I'm never exactly sure how that's done, but you can tell when it works and when it doesn't. There's nothing worse than looking at a comic when somebody doesn't have that. It's like looking at store windows or something.
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
I don't read much of anything online.
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 something good.
Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.
I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.