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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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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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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“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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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 think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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