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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.

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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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“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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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