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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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 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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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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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