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.

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.

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 not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

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

I don't read much of anything online.

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.

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

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.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.