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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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