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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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“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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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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 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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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