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.
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.
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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.
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.
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
I don't read much of anything online.
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.