“Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.” IfsWorldWantYearsI CanBookTogetherSpecialGhostRaysRereadingGhost World 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
“Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.” IfsPersonsStillsKidsCultureDrawsResponseAverageAirplaneAverage Person 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
“Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.” IfsThinkingWayWritingKindI CanCan DoEffortGoes OnPagesDelightScreenplays 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
“Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.” IfsBookMillionsReaderOnline Author:Daniel Clowes
