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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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