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
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.
I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.
There's a lot of great cartoonists working, but I don't see too many people coming along who are of the 'where have you been all my life?' variety.
Believe it or not, the characters are all like people I went to art school with in the '70s.
Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.
Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.