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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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