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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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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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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“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 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 in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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