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I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.
Daniel Clowes
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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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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.
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At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.
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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.
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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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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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But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
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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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You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?
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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.
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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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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
Daniel Clowes
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.
Daniel Clowes
I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.
Daniel Clowes
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
Daniel Clowes
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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