Words matter. These are the best Daniel Clowes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I originally just wanted to be an artist.
Yeah, I don’t necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
That’ll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
I’m more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn’t read the words, so I made up my own stories.
I try personally not to be nostalgic.
I’m a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
It’s embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It’s still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books – their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
I think that’s what we’re all most terrified about: that we’ll just die and disappear and we’ll leave no trace.
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I’m working.
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.
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It’s kind of a fine line.
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.
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
I’m not opposed to comics on the Internet. It’s just not interesting to me.
In an art school it’s very hard to tell who is the best.
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
