“I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentGoalInterestingStartingPainfulCreatorFinishedFrustratingStarting Out Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.” IfsThinkingWayDifferentArtistFoundInterestingStyleMaterialsStrongerShiftingInteresting ThingsDifferent Styles Author:Daniel Clowes
“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
“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.” IfsWorldWayI CanDifferentStuffCan DoInterestingDrawsTrainI Realized 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 see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.” KindDifferentCharacterRealityAgeOpportunityChanceInterestingVisionImpossibleChildhoodPossibilityWindowYour ChildrenSomething InterestingWindow Of Opportunity Author:Daniel Clowes
“I try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have the story to go with it. I'm not so much interested in forcing the issue of reader identification through various graphic tricks. I'm more interested in creating specific characters that resonate with my own particular inner struggles.” TryingMindDifferentCharacterStruggleStrategyVariousGraphic Author:Daniel Clowes
