Daniel Clowes

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing. ”

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. ”

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. ”