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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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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’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’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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