I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all.
Daniel ClowesYou 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 ClowesI had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
Daniel ClowesIt's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.
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 try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have the story to go with it. I'm not so much interested in forcing the issue of reader identification through various graphic tricks. I'm more interested in creating specific characters that resonate with my own particular inner struggles.
Daniel Clowes