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
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.
Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.
When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.
I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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 people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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.
I don't think anything to do with who publishes the work matters at all, as long as they're not compromising to get published.