I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.
Daniel ClowesYou can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
Daniel ClowesI really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.
Daniel ClowesAt a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.
Daniel ClowesMore and more, I tried to make comics in the way I like to read comics, and I found that when I read comics that are really densely packed with text, it may be rewarding when I finally do sit down and read it, but it never is going to be the first I'm going to read, and I never am fully excited to just sit down and read that comic.
Daniel Clowes