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. – Daniel Clowes
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. – Daniel Clowes
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. – Daniel Clowes
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. – Daniel Clowes
Even if I only had 10 readers, I’d rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. – Daniel Clowes
I think that’s what we’re all most terrified about: that we’ll just die and disappear and we’ll leave no trace. – Daniel Clowes
Yeah, I don’t necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion. – Daniel Clowes
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. – Daniel Clowes
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. – Daniel Clowes
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. – Daniel Clowes
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. – Daniel Clowes
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. – Daniel Clowes
Superman’s always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I’ve never seen that happen in my life. – Daniel Clowes
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of. – Daniel Clowes
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. – Daniel Clowes
