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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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