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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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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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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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 if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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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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