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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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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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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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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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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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“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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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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