“There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. 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.” KidsSchoolCertainExampleHigh SchoolDetailsRays Author:Daniel Clowes
“My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.” FeelsWritingCharacterFeelingsCertainCan DoAcceptingSawsStyleReaderPagesMediumsFlip Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think there was a point that I realized I could do what I wanted to do in terms of the drawing. I used to run around a lot of things. I would shy away from certain things that I realized would be horrible for me to draw, and just wouldn't be fun.” ThinkingWould BeRunningWantedUsedCertainFunTermDrawsDrawingI RealizedHorribleShy Author:Daniel Clowes
“At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.” ShouldKindStoriesAbleCertainComfortableDrawsI Realized Author:Daniel Clowes
“There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.” KnowsWantTryingKindI CanSeemsCertainReadingNextPerfectBalanceDialoguePerfect Balance Author:Daniel Clowes
“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.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsMayLittlesFilmCertainOpinionAgreeCriticsCrewCriteriaFilm Critics Author:Daniel Clowes
“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.” WayWantGivingLooksKindCertainLinesVisionFineRealismAbstractionFine Lines Author:Daniel Clowes
