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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.
Daniel Clowes
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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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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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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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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'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They work as this outburst of incoherent anger. I've found ways to write around swearing that are much more effective, rather than going for what someone really would say.
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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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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 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.
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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 must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.
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The secret to being alone is to organize your time to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.
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The greatest moment of my life was, somebody sent me a cable-access show from Chicago that had Joey Ramone on it showing the video we made together. And he was talking about, like, This guy Dan Clowes postponed his wedding for us. He's a great guy.
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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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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 have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.
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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'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
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That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.
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