I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult. Daniel Clowes More Quotes by Daniel Clowes More Quotes From Daniel Clowes 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. Daniel Clowes spontaneous effort complicated 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. Daniel Clowes lines vision giving 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. Daniel Clowes mean fall thinking I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. Daniel Clowes beats littles television Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids. Daniel Clowes airplane average kids I don't read much of anything online. Daniel Clowes online 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. Daniel Clowes rays kids school I never feel there's anything I can't do. Daniel Clowes i-can feels In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer. Daniel Clowes whim able running I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me. Daniel Clowes internet interesting Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. Daniel Clowes online reader book 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. Daniel Clowes gun kids thinking Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. Daniel Clowes would-be way moving Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone. Daniel Clowes waiting stuff book I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing. Daniel Clowes embarrassing made I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people. Daniel Clowes polite type people 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. Daniel Clowes illustration want needs 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. Daniel Clowes film-critics people way I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age. Daniel Clowes fluidity real age 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. Daniel Clowes different way interesting
