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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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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 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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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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