For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel ClowesEverybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
Daniel ClowesIt'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 ClowesI never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all.
Daniel ClowesIt's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was popular in old comic strips. They'd write a weekend story different from the daily strip. So people follow one story day to day, and a separate story on weekends. If you read them, you think "I'll read two more." Then you're like "I gotta find out!" And you read 500 more.
Daniel Clowes