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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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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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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 if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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 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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