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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.

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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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And I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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