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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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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 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 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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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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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“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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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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I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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