A biography for Daniel Cloweshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.”
“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.”
“I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.”
“Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.”
“I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.”
“I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.”
“I try personally not to be nostalgic.”
“I never feel there's anything I can't do.”
“I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.”
“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.”
“When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.”
“I originally just wanted to be an artist.”
“But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.”
“In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.”
“I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.”
“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.”