There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can’t not read. I’ll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I’m reading it. That’s what I’m kind of trying to do with my comics.

— Daniel Clowes

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I’m always hiding the books in my closet, and my art’s always turned upside down in my drawer.

— Daniel Clowes

As soon as I’m finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, “Well, I did another book.”

— Daniel Clowes

When I go back and reread the stuff, I’m always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

— Daniel Clowes

Often I’ll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn’t have to for the ’70s. I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

— Daniel Clowes

One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, “Let’s put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones.”

— Daniel Clowes

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

— Daniel Clowes

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

— Daniel Clowes

I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that’s very different. I think it’s an interesting thing to discover, what’s present in the work even when you’re shifting the styles. I’ve just found it a much stronger way to work.

— Daniel Clowes

I’ve felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

— Daniel Clowes

If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that’s different. That’s sort of what it’s all about, to get this thing out so that there’s some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.

— Daniel Clowes

I actually start drawing things. Usually they’re abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

— Daniel Clowes

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I’m working.

— Daniel Clowes

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

— Daniel Clowes

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn’t satisfying, but to actually draw our own world – it’s like controlling your own dreams.

— Daniel Clowes

He always accuses me of trying to look’cool’, I was like, ’everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

— Daniel Clowes

Maybe I’m just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.

— Daniel Clowes

Why aren’t you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

— Daniel Clowes

You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.

— Daniel Clowes

C’mon, let’s go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

— Daniel Clowes

For a moment, all movement ceases and the scene is one of crystalline stillness, silent except for a slow, melodramatic heartbeat.

— Daniel Clowes

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