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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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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 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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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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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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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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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