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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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’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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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“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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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 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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Annoying Book Holdout Making Probably Publisher Remaining Version
I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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