It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.
Daniel ClowesI really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.
Daniel ClowesI feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.
Daniel ClowesOne of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."
Daniel Clowes