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

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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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“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 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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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 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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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