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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 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 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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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