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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.

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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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’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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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 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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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’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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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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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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