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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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’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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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“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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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