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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’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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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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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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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“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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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