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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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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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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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“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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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 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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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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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