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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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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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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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 not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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’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 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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