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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.

Daniel Clowes

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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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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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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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I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
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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 love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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