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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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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’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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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’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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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