“In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.” ThinkingWayWaitingMorningMinutesLateTestsWake UpMathAdolescence Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.” ThinkingWantLooksVisionClearClear Vision Author:Daniel Clowes
“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
“It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindArtistStyleInspireLike YouApproachPagesDrawingStuckLiberatingBogs Author:Daniel Clowes
“I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.” ThinkingFormDisco 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
“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
“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
“I just try to make comics for myself, try to give it some kind of unity throughout. That often involves tiny details. I'm never sure what's going to be obvious or what nobody will ever notice. I put stuff in my comics that I thought was blatantly obvious, and nobody noticed. And things that I think are buried in the background, everybody gets it. So I try to be consistently aware of every part of the frame.” ThinkingGivingTryingKindUnityObviousConsistently Author:Daniel Clowes
“It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.” PeopleThinkingMovingSomething New Author:Daniel Clowes
“If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.” ThinkingArtEnoughPropaganda Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think politics has an influence on my work now, perhaps more so than when I was a childless young man, but I hope never to deal with these kinds of issues in anything more than a covert manner. I'm more interested in figuring out what I think than in pronouncing my views to the world.” ThinkingMenWorldKindInfluence Author:Daniel Clowes
“Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!” ThinkingMediaRadioReggae Author:Daniel Clowes
“When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.” PeopleThinkingMeanWould BeFallVisionPersonalityComplainingDisappointedCamps Author:Daniel Clowes
“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.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesKidsHalfWorstKissingEmptyGlassesBitesFearfulLittle KidHalf Empty Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.” ThinkingBookShipsPublishingSinkingBook Publishing Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.” ThinkingWorldLittlesKidsFantasyGunRaysLittle KidErase Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.” ThinkingDiesDisappearTerrified Author:Daniel Clowes
