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Daniel Clowes

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Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!


— Daniel Clowes


#funny

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.


— Daniel Clowes


#i #me #move #moved #movie

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.


— Daniel Clowes


#had #i #just #little #old

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


#every #example #for example #high #high school

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.


— Daniel Clowes


#head #i #involves #me #process

I don't read much of anything online.


— Daniel Clowes


#i #much #online #read

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.


— Daniel Clowes


#even #had #i #million #online

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


#certain #comics #fine #fine line #give

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.


— Daniel Clowes


#comics #i #i love #individual #love

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.


— Daniel Clowes


#i #opportunity #swear #symbols #use






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Life and career
Clowes was born in Chicago Illinois to an auto mechanic mother and a furniture craftsman father. On September 16 2007 The New York Times Magazine publiDaniel Clowesd the first installment of Mister Wonderful a serialized graphic novel by Clowes. In 1989 Fantagraphics publiDaniel Clowesd the first issue of his periodic comic collection Eightball.

These stories have been collected and publiDaniel Clowesd as graphic novels such as Ghost World (1987) and David Boring (2000). With filmmaker Terry Zwigoff Clowes adapted Ghost World into a a 2001 film and adapted other Eightball stories into another film in 2006 Art School Confidential.

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