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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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“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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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