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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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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 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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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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“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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