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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 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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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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