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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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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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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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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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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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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