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The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.
Daniel Clowes
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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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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.
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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.
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I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.
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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.
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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.
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Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with comics that wouldn't work in any other medium, and often they require the need to process a lot of dense information. Of course, the trick is to make the complicated seem effortless and spontaneous.
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I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.
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I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.
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Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.
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I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.
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I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
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I'm usually the last to see my influence in other people's work. People give me stuff and say Oh look, this guy's ripping you off, and I'm like What do you mean? Often I see the people that I've ripped off filtered into my own work. In other people's work, I can only see specific, tiny little instances of inflections stolen from another ar
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Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.
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I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.
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It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely made-up story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.
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I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.
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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.
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