“If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.” IfsYearsKindTwoBookDifferentArtistThreeIssuesComicIf I CouldComic BookContinuityCrank Author:Daniel Clowes
“Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... 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.” WorldWantYearsDoneStuffMorningBedBoringDrawingPlanningComicShootingEvery MorningEditingHitchcockBoring Things Author:Daniel Clowes
“More and more, I tried to make comics in the way I like to read comics, and I found that when I read comics that are really densely packed with text, it may be rewarding when I finally do sit down and read it, but it never is going to be the first I'm going to read, and I never am fully excited to just sit down and read that comic.” WayFirstsMayFoundDown AndExcitedComic Author:Daniel Clowes
“You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.” KnowsWantNeedsComicIllustration Author:Daniel Clowes
“It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was popular in old comic strips. They'd write a weekend story different from the daily strip. So people follow one story day to day, and a separate story on weekends. If you read them, you think "I'll read two more." Then you're like "I gotta find out!" And you read 500 more.” PeopleThinkingWritingDifferentReadingInterestingWeekComicWeekend Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think a comic looks better in the magazine. The colors are designed to be on paper, not illuminated on screen. I don't like the aspect of people reading it for free. When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously. But I don't know. I'm sure 10 times more people are reading it online than in the actual paper.” PeopleThinkingReadingComicOnline Author:Daniel Clowes
“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.” IfsGivingKindSometimesSeemsPhotographyPagesPhotographComicSparksConnecting Author:Daniel Clowes
“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.” MeanStillsBookInvolvedDrawsAdultsNotionComicInstantMainstreamComic BookEmbarrassingPreconceived Notions Author:Daniel Clowes
