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Daniel Clowes [1961-0] American

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Author, Cartoonist

Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter. Most of Clowes's work first appeared in Eightball, a solo anthology comic book series.

Fear

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I 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.	Fear	101
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.		102
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.		103
I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.		104
You 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.		105
I try personally not to be nostalgic.		106
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.		107
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.		108
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.		109
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.		110
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.		111
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.		112
Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.		113
Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.		114
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.		115
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.		116
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.		117
I don't read much of anything online.		118
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.		119
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.		120
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.		121
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.		122
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.		123
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.		124
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.		125
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.		126
I originally just wanted to be an artist.		201
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!		202
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.		203
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.		204
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.		205
I never feel there's anything I can't do.		206
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.		207
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.		208
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.		209
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.		210
Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!		211

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