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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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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’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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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 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 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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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