When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.
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 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 ClowesAs soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."
Daniel ClowesI was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
Daniel ClowesThere are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. 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.
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