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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

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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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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 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’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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