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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

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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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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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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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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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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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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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